Viola Sallay

Dr. Viola Sallay is a clinical health psychologist, systemic psychotherapist, and Associate Professor at the Institute of Psychology, University of Szeged, Hungary, and a full professor at Sigmund Freud Private University, Vienna-Paris. Her research interests include environmental and systemic aspects of well-being, the role of environmental self-regulation in personal growth processes and the use of qualitative methodologies in well-being research. She is co-founder and co-editor-in-chief of Experience, Journal of Qualitative Studies in Mental Health. She is a Board member of the European Family Therapy Association and a member of its Research Committee. At the Relationship Science Research Lab (University of Szeged), she developed the qualitative research methodology of experience mapping, which she further developed into a systemic intervention tool. She intervenes in various international workshops and conferences where she promotes systemic qualitative research and the experience mapping approach in systemic therapy.