Marcé Conference Iceland 2027
Organization committee
Soffía Bæringsdóttir
Soffía Bæringsdóttir is a Family Therapist (MA) from the University in Iceland. She holds a Professional Certificate in Women and Substance Use from University College Dublin, Ireland, is a licensed Supervisor and newly VIG - accredited.
Soffía has specialised in parent–infant bonding in Iceland. She works within Icelandic healthcare services, in Familyteam 0-5 years (Fjölskylduteymi 0-5 ára) supporting families with a particular focus on attachment and perinatal mental health.
For more than 15 years, she has provided education, supervision, and support for parents and professionals. She regularly teaches and presents on topics including infant bonding, grief and loss, attachment, and compassionate family-centered care.
Soffía is the Chair of the Icelandic Association of Family Therapists and serves on the organizing committee for the Marce Conference Iceland 2027. She has presented internationally on the integration of Video Interaction Guidance (VIG) in Icelandic clinical practice, the impact of sexual abuse on couple relationships, making space for the unborn baby in the therapy room, and grief and loss during pregnancy and after birth. Soffía is the Chairman of the Icelandic Family Therapy Asociation and has co-organised several international events, Marcé Conference being the most exciting one.
Fríður Guðmundsdóttir
Fríður Guðmundsdóttir is a Clinical Psychologist (cand.psych) from the University of Copenhagen and Video Interaction Guidance (VIG) practitioner, with eight years of experience in parent–infant and early childhood mental health. She has specialized in attachment-based interventions, including Parent–Infant Psychotherapy (PIP), Newborn Behavioral Observations (NBO), and Parental Embodied Mentalization Assessment (PEMA).
She works within Icelandic healthcare services as part of the Family Team for Children Aged 0–5 years at the Child Mental Health Centre, supporting expectant parents and families with infants and young children. Her clinical work focuses on strengthening early relationships, enhancing parental sensitivity, and promoting parental mental health and wellbeing during the perinatal period and early childhood.
Prior to her current role, Fríður worked within Child Protection Services, supporting children and families in vulnerable situations. Throughout her career, she has been committed to early intervention and the promotion of secure parent–child relationships, with a particular interest in infant mental health, attachment, parenting stress, and family-centred care.
Fríður regularly collaborates with multidisciplinary professionals working with young children and families and is passionate about integrating research and clinical practice to improve outcomes for infants, parents, and families. She serves on the organising committee for the Marce Conference Iceland 2027 and is dedicated to advancing awareness and understanding of perinatal and infant mental health both in Iceland and internationally.
Hlín Kristbergsdóttir
Hlín Kristbergsdóttir is a PhD candidate in Psychology at the Department of Psychology, Reykjavík University. Her doctoral research focuses on prenatal maternal stress, psychosocial risk factors, and their impact on birth outcomes and child and adolescent mental health. Her work brings together perinatal psychology, developmental psychopathology, public health, and advanced statistical methods.
Hlín has over 17 years of experience in research, teaching, and statistical analysis across psychology, perinatal mental health, rehabilitation, organizational psychology, sleep research, and digital health. She has contributed to national and international research projects, including the Sleep Revolution project, the Cranfield Network on International Human Resource Management project, and an audit of the Clinical Psychology Service at the National University Hospital of Iceland. She also served as Interim CEO of the Icelandic Centre for Social Research and Analysis.
Alongside her research, Hlín has held several academic and professional leadership roles. She is an executive board member of the Nordic Marcé Society, former Chair of the Reykjavík University PhD Student Association, and former executive board member of the Reykjavík University Research Council and Psychology Department Executive Boards at Reykjavík University and the University of Iceland.
Hlín serves on the organising committee for the Marcé Conference Iceland 2027 and is passionate about strengthening research, collaboration, and data-driven approaches in perinatal mental health, women’s health, digital health, and public services.
Sigríður Sía Jónsdóttir
Sigríður Sía Jónsdóttir holds a PhD from Linnaeus University, Kalmar/Växjö in Sweden. She has a Clinical nurse specialist (CNS) degree from the USA and a midwifery degree from Iceland. For about tweenty years she has been in academia and is currently professor at the University of Akureyri (UNAK). She is also a lecturer in Midwifery education at the University of Iceland.
Sia has clinical experience as a midwife/nurse in Iceland, USA and Norway and was a director of a High-risk pregnancy clinic in Reykjavik, Iceland from 2000 – 2007. In the USA she was a clinical nurse specialist. She had been on the Nordic Marcé society board since 2023 and currently the president 2025 – 2027. She is the chair of the organising committee for the Marce Conference Iceland 2027.
Her main research emphasizes the mental well-being of pregnant women, the other expectant parents and their families, the couple’s relationship along with their service needs. Her other research focuses is on the public health care service in Iceland.