Prof. Vincent Sezibera, PhD
vsezibera@gmail.com
0788 771 289‬

Prof. Vincent Sezibera, PhD

Prof. Sezibera specializes in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Child and Adolescent Traumatic Grief. He is an Associate Professor of Psychology (Clinical Psychology) and Director of the Centre for Mental Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Rwanda. He is also the Founding President of the Rwanda Psychological Society (RPS), a profession organization of psychologists in Rwanda. Prof. Sezibera received his doctorate in Psychology from the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium.

His teaching workload includes Psychopathology (Abnormal Psychology and Psychiatry), Psychotherapies: Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy approach (CBT), Further Issues in Psychopathology: Ageing (Gerontology and Geriatric).  Research areas include the assessment of mental health poor outcomes from social crisis (genocide), domestic violence, intimate partner violence, medical conditions (HIV, COVID-19). Prof. Sezibera is very active in community education on trauma, resilience and trauma informed care in Rwanda. He has worked also as trainer in a number of countries, to include Benin, Republic of Central Africa, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, and South Africa. He has been traveling in different countries in both Africa, Europe, Canada and US to attend international conferences.

The spring and summer 2011, Prof. Sezibera was visiting as a Fulbright Scholar in Residence at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology (TCSPP)- Chicago and Harold Washington Community College, Chicago, IL.  From August 2011 to date, Prof. Sezibera is a Part Time dissertation Affiliate Faculty in the International PHD Department.