dr. L.N.J. (Lindy-Lou) Boyette

Lindy-Lou Boyette was born August 5th 1978 in Oxford, Great Britain. She spend part of her childhood in South Africa, before moving to The Netherlands. She holds a Master (2002) and a GZ postmaster degree (2011) in clinical psychology. Her main clinical interest is diagnostics. She has worked as a diagnostician in several areas of mental health care, including an academic hospital, a large mental health institution and a private practice. She has been teaching diagnostics to (aspiring) psychologists since 2007, first at bachelor-, then master- and, more recently, postmaster level and has been supervising psychologists in diagnostic assessment since 2018. Additionally, she is a member of several national committees that promote and safeguard the quality of diagnostics in psychology practice and education.

In 2008, she started working on the GROUP research project, a study on vulnerability and resilience factors in psychosis, under supervision of professor Lieuwe de Haan, Amsterdam UMC. This turned into a PhD-student (2009-2014) and later a postdoc position (2014-2016). She still collaborates with the Amsterdam UMC in psychosis research, with personality and addiction as her main research interests. Her current research project in collaboration with the Amsterdam UMC Early Psychosis department is on the potential beneficial effect of CBD, a cannabis compound, on cannabis addiction in individuals with early psychosis.

Lindy is now head educator GZ at the psychology postmaster training and associate professor at the Clinical Psychology department of the RUG.