Clara Wiebel, Veerle C. Eijsbroek, Vasudha Varadarajan, Katarina Kjell, H. Andrew Schwartz, Oscar Kjell (2026). Assessing the Need for Mental Health Support From Free-Text Responses: Development and Validation of Language-Based Assessments in Adults With Internalizing Symptoms. JMIR Mental Health, 13, e105460
Clara Wiebel is a PhD candidate and research associate at the Technical University of Munich (TUM Campus Heilbronn), where she works with large language models, machine learning and language analysis.
She first came to the Harmony Research Group on a research visit from Germany, and then returned to write her MSc thesis with us – now published as her first-author paper on assessing the need for mental health support from free-text responses (JMIR Mental Health, 2026). She holds an MSc in Psychology from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and continues to work and publish with the lab. She also created our interactive mental health assessments dashboard.
Interests
- Clinical Psychology
- Personality
- R
Publications
Damon Navandi, Veerle C. Eijsbroek, Clara Wiebel, Aaron Marker, Katarina Kjell, Marc L. Molendijk, Elizabeth C. Stade, Oscar N.E. Kjell (2026). Clinicians' practices and attitudes toward depression assessment: a cross-sectional survey study. BMC Psychology, 14, 1227
Veerle C. Eijsbroek, August Nilsson, Leon Ackermann, Zhuojun Gu, Clara Wiebel, Adithya V. Ganesan, Katarina Kjell, H. Andrew Schwartz, Oscar N.E. Kjell (2026). Multiple Methods for Visualizing Human Language: A Tutorial for Social and Behavioural Scientists. PsyArXiv
Oskar Bång, Zhuojun Gu, August Nilsson, Veerle Eijsbroek, Clara Wiebel, Adithya V. Ganesan, Katarina Kjell, H. Andrew Schwartz, Oscar Kjell (2025). Language-Based Affect Assessments Capture Experiment-Induced Changes Beyond Rating Scales. PsyArXiv