Hjordis Lorenz

hjordis lorenz
Trainee Clinical Psychologist
hjordis.lorenz@hmc.ox.ac.uk

I am about to start my third year of clinical psychology training with a specialist placement at the Berkshire Traumatic Stress Service (BTSS). I completed my first-year adult mental health and older adult placements in IAPT (Talking Therapies) in Berkshire, my child placement in Children's Psychological Medicine at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, and my placement working with intellectual disabilities in the North Oxford LD team (community mental health).

Professional Interests:

Prior to my clinical training, I worked towards my PhD at the Oxford Centre for Anxiety Disorders and Trauma. My research focused on targeting risk factors and predictors of PTSD in student paramedics. Alongside this, I volunteered at the Oxfordshire Sexual Abuse and Rape Crisis Centre and at Cruse Bereavement Care.

Prior, I worked for one year, part-time in an in-patient dual diagnosis (addiction and mental health) facility, co-facilitating individual treatment, leading psychoeducation classes and running CBT-based dual diagnosis groups. I was also part of a clinical team running culturally adapted CBT groups in Zambia and training local healthcare supporters.

I have a special interest in PTSD and PTSD prevention and have worked with trauma in various contexts ranging from domestic violence, sexual violence, addiction, military, and emergency workers.

 

Publications:

Stuebing, M. D., Lorenz, H., & Littlefield, L. M. (2019). Literacy-Free 12 Step Expressive Arts Curriculum Enhances Engagement and Treatment Outcomes for Dually Diagnosed Substance Use and Mental Health Disorders. Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly.

Wild, J., El-Salahi, S., Tyson, G., Lorenz, H., Pariante, C. M., Danese, A., … Ehlers, A. (2018). Preventing PTSD, depression and associated health problems in student paramedics: Protocol for PREVENT-PTSD, a randomised controlled trial of supported online cognitive training for resilience versus alternative online training and standard practice. BMJ Open.

Oral presentations:

Lorenz, H (2019). Let the CAT out of the bag: A new measure to assess concrete and abstract thinking (CAT). MQ Mental Health Conference, London, UK.

Lorenz, H. et al. (2018). New cognitive and behavioural interventions to prevent PTSD and depression in at risk groups. Symposium at the BABCP Annual Conference, Glasgow, UK.

Selected poster presentations

Lorenz, H., Holland, S., Ehlers, A. & Wild, J. (2018). Daily planning ahead to improve the mental health of student paramedics: A randomised controlled trial. Poster presented at the MQ Mental Health Science Meeting, London, UK. Won best poster award

Lorenz, H. & Littlefield, L. (2017). Annual Meeting: Moral Injury: Field-testing a novel psychopathologic concept secondary to battlefield trauma. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS), Chicago, USA.