Lukas Fürer (PhD)

I am a researcher and psychotherapist focusing on psychotherapy processes with children, adolescents, and families. My work examines interactional dynamics in psychotherapy, including alliance ruptures and their resolution, attunement, movement synchrony, silence and minimal responses, as well as autonomic and other psychophysiological correlates of therapeutic engagement. A central interest of my research is the behavioral coding of psychotherapy and interactions in general, and I am also interested in developing and applying computational methods for describing therapeutically relevant concepts (e.g. speech‑based markers). Clinically, I work with children, adolescents, parents, and families, and I also teach at a psychotherapy training institute.

Projects

• ELKI: Begleitevaluation eines sektorenübergreifenden Eltern-Kind-Behandlungsangebotes an den UPK
• familyReBel: Familiäre Ressourcen und Belastungsfaktoren

Fürer, L., Schenk, N., Roth, V., Steppan, M., Schmeck, K., & Zimmermann, R. (2020). Supervised speaker diarization using random forests: a tool for psychotherapy process research. Frontiers in psychology, 11, 1726.

Steppan, M., Zimmermann, R., Fürer, L., Southward, M., Koenig, J., Kaess, M., ... & Schmeck, K. (2024). Machine Learning Facial Emotion Classifiers in Psychotherapy Research: A Proof-of-Concept Study. Psychopathology, 57(3), 159-168.

Schenk, N., Fürer, L., Zimmermann, R., Steppan, M., & Schmeck, K. (2021). Alliance ruptures and resolutions in personality disorders. Current psychiatry reports, 23(1), 1.

Zimmermann, R., Fürer, L., Kleinbub, J. R., Ramseyer, F. T., Hütten, R., Steppan, M., & Schmeck, K. (2021). Movement synchrony in the psychotherapy of adolescents with borderline personality pathology–A dyadic trait marker for resilience?. Frontiers in psychology, 12, 660516.

Please find a list of my publications on Google Scholar.