Marie-José van Hoof MD PhD MSc is a Dutch child and adolescent and adult psychiatrist, psychotraumatherapist and orthopedagoge educated at Leiden University. During her studies and early career she had the chance to serve as the director of the Standing Committee on Public Health of the International Federation of Medical Student Associations (IFMSA) and also participate in programs, internships and jobs across the UK, USA, Canada, Israel, Zaïre (now DRC), Haïti, Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay at different hospitals and universities. 

She is married and proud mom of 2 daughters and 2 sons. She was a Donald J. Cohen fellow in 2007 and has served as a mentor to the program since. She did a PhD neuro-imaging study on unresolved disorganized attachment and psychopathology in the adolescent brain, assessing adolescents who experienced sexual abuse, adolescents who had depressive and/or anxious disorders and healthy controls. Unresolved-disorganized attachment appeared to be a transdiagnostic factor for any psychopathology. The mental health institution iMindU she set up and leads is based on this specific insight among others (such as Ubuntu and Theory U) and offers high quality and cost-efficient care across the lifespan through the team-based transdisciplinary iCU-careprogram, developed from complexity thinking. It offers an elective to childpsychiatry fellows, an internship to psychology students and a psychotherapy training for more advanced mental health psychologists and participates in scientific research (association with Amsterdam University). Marie-José specialized in attachment, trauma, emotion regulation, specifically child abuse and neglect, sexual abuse, intimate partner violence and coercive control on the one hand and psychotherapy on the other hand. She initiated and chairs a working committee on trauma and child abuse at the (Dutch) Knowledgecenter Child and Adolescent Psychiatry since 2007, participated and later chaired the reporting code on CAN and IPV of the Dutch Society for Psychiatry (NVvP), and participated in numerous Dutch national guidelines, care standards, and advise committees on the topic including child abuse through falsification and coercive control. She is editor to the Dutch Journal of Psychotherapy (TvP) and chairs the section Psychotherapy at the Dutch Society for Psychiatry (NVvP).