Dr Maria Kleinstäuber

Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychological Medicine, Dunedin School of Medicine,
University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ

Maria has worked as a registered clinical psychologist at different outpatient clinics in Germany and New Zealand for the past 10 years. She has helped patients suffering from chronic and debilitating tinnitus and pain to improve their psychological symptom management within group and individual therapies. Over several years she has been the head of a specialised psychological treatment programme for tinnitus patients and the programme for patients with somatoform disorders at the Johannnes Gutenberg-University in Mainz (Germany). Maria has also worked as clinical scientist in different psychology departments at universities in Germany, USA, and New Zealand. In 2018 she has become a Senior Lecturer at University of Otago in Dunedin and since the beginning of 2019 she has worked as Clinical Psychologist in the Persistent Pain Clinic at Dunedin Hospital. Maria has conducted several studies of etiological factors of and psychological interventions for tinnitus and persistent physical symptom distress. Maria is author and co-author of numerous academic papers and book chapters in psychological management of persistent physical symptoms.

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