I completed my bachelor’s degree in psychology at Julius Maximilians Universität Würzburg in Germany and my master’s degree in clinical psychology at Royal Holloway University. My bachelor’s thesis focused on costly avoidance of fear stimuli and in my master’s thesis I investigated gaze allocation in the broad autism phenotype. During my postgraduate degree, I was an honorary research assistant at Talking Therapies in Berkshire where I worked on a project exploring barriers for young adults to access the service. I then went on to work as an assistant psychologist on an adult acute mental health ward and later was an assistant psychologist for a day programme for eating disorders in the Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust. My research interests lie broadly in co-production and service user involvement, trauma-informed treatment approaches, various aspects of working with people with eating disorders, as well as the psychological impact of chronic physical health conditions such as Crohn’s disease.
