Lauren Harvey

Lauren Harvey studied at the University of Bristol with a Masters in experimental psychology. Her research within the Tobacco and Alcohol Research Group at UoB focussed on addiction, attachment, ecological guilt and their links to neurodivergency and mental health trends. Her passion for changing student outcomes through educating and diversifying mental health services and their accessibility, started with volunteering at Nightline and Make a smile.

This was furthered through the changes she implemented in the School of Psychology, as both course rep and president of the Clinical Psychology Society. Since graduating, Lauren is an adjunct lecturer of Applied Clinical Psychology postgraduate courses at the University of Gibraltar. Her modules specialise in clinical assessments, models of mental health and disorders, as well as formulating, diagnosing and treating disorders through various therapies.

Lauren also works alongside Lara as Creative Tuition's mental health coordinator, which gives psychodynamic therapy to students. Lauren is currently a mental support worker for Missing link, a Bristol based women's mental health charity, supporting high risk women with complex needs in crisis from domestic violence, homelessness, finances in a person centered, psychologically trauma informed way. Lauren is committed to changing the stigma and barriers around accessing mental health support as an aspiring clinical psychologist.

Mental Health Coordinator Creative Tuition – Nov 22- Current

-At Cotham college and Montpellier high school and deliver students group therapy and mental health education and support every two weeks after school as part of a study to track their academic and life outcomes progress in BAME LGBTQ and disadvantaged students. I get supervised by Judith Desbourne and use the psychodynamic human givens approach, to teach inform and aid students. I teach them mental health tool kits and relevant coping skills and strategies to aid their behaviour and development.

• At The University of Bristol I give mental health workshops on burnout, neurodivergence and imposter syndrome to post doctorates and lecturers.

Mental health support worker- Missing Link Bristol Dec 2022-June 2023

• Within the Bristol based women's mental health charity, I support high risk women with complex needs, who are in crisis from domestic violence, homelessness, debt, physical and mental distress. I have a caseload of 20 clients and support them in a person-centred, psychologically trauma-informed way. I help these vulnerable women become empowered and reach manageable outcomes within 4-12 weeks to help reduce their mental distress, through reducing their stressors in their physical environment as well as mental ones and barrier they face to gaining medical or mental health support.

Adjunct Lecturer- Applied Clinical Psychology PgDip – University of Gibraltar

March 2022– current.

• Through various online mediums, I remotely taught and marked several Clinical psychology modules. Currently I freelance teach ‘Core clinical Skills’ ‘Clinical assessment risk assessment and management and formulation’ ‘Severe and Complex Mental Health difficulties’ ‘Therapeutic

Approaches’. With many weeks of these units on specific scenarios like domestic violence,

addiction, cPTSD and various psychopathologies. I teach what interviewing techniques,

formulations, treatment planning, selection and evaluation work best given different scenarios and patients' needs.

• I collaborate with faculty staff at Learna LTD and the University of Gibraltar to establish a viable course curriculum and pushed for course and career support adjustments, so the undergraduate and postgraduate cohorts/students got the best career advice and outcomes.
• I deliver and develop high-quality academic material and content. I monitored and graded this through weekly postgraduates' clinical, well-being and personal careers goals reflective essays,

academic discussions and 2 group projects each for 19 clinical psychologists and therapists from around the world.

-I track their insights, progress and provide well-being support.

• I communicate with students staff and admins through emails, calls and chat and troubleshoot their issues, I am often their first point of contact, often the voice of students and provide their feedback to improve the courses and their engagement and student success and career outcomes.

Higher education academic course author - Simply Psychology Nov 2022-January 2023

--I get commissioned to write and publish student materials aimed at all education levels and all psychology careers. Most recently I authored content to do with mental health and general psychology units.

Applied Clinical Psychology PGCert Course author - University of Gibraltar

June - Aug 2022

• Learna LTD commissioned me to author the Applied Clinical Psychology PgDip at the

University of Gibraltar. The modules include ‘Specialist Clinical applications’.- Authored content, clinical scenarios and model answers for units on developmental disorders,

ADHD, autism and neurodivergence, dementia, Traumatic Brain Injury and neuropsychological rehabilitation.

EDUCO English tutor and recruiter June 2022- Sept 2022

• Taught English to Italian school children from ages 5 -13 in 7 different cities across Italy.
• Recruited families and their children to be a part of EDUCO English full immersion camps.
• Due to past volunteering experiences and psychological background, I taught mixed-ability children and those with additional learning disabilities or neurodivergent conditions like autism and ADHD.

Research assistant – University of Bristol Tobacco and Alcohol Unit (TARG) Oct 21-June 22

---Assisted in several soon-to-be-published papers as a contributor. The most notable being doi:10.1093/ntr/nty008 a stopwatch smartwatch system that can accurately detect the difference between vaping and cigarette smoking, which is soon to be used in a cancer patient trial to aid smoking cessation.

• Oversaw recruitment, reimbursement, data cleaning and the maintenance of the equipment for

3 projects.

--I collaboratively wrote an overview of TARGs’ most recent Public Health England funded research on the impacts of E-cigarettes. This was in a booklet easy to read form for GPs,

academics and research benefactors.

---I helped create a new physical autism emotion recognition and processing games for primary school-age students, which will be used in a Bristol-wide school intervention in the coming year.

---This taught me how to effectively communicate and condense large meta-analyses and systematic reviews into a more digestible form.

-This assisted my master's and built up my research skills and knowledge of proper ethical and research protocols and how to organise, communicate and work effectively in a multidisciplinary successful team.

Transitions to University teaching assistant - University of Bristol Oct 2021 – March

2022

---Facilitated and helped implement changes to the course, units and assessments from student feedback through being an undergraduate course rep for the school of psychology.

---Helped the senior lecturer implement and structure this unit. Created and adapted lesson plans that introduced a variety of psychological areas from the units: Brain and cognition,

Research methods, APA academic research, writing and reporting, Foundations in social and developmental psychology and Mental health and wellbeing.

---I solely taught these units focusing on essay writing skills, statistical reporting, blackboard introductions and wellbeing seminars. Both online and in-person I taught 3 groups of around 20

Neuroscience and Psychology undergraduates.

University of Bristol – Experimental Psychology Masters in Science (MSci) Oct 2018 – July

2022 Second class honours (First Division) degree (upper 2:1)

Bosworth academy: 2016-2018 A-levels A Biology AQA A EPQ AQA A Psychology AQA

B chemistry AQA