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