Jane Gregory is a clinical researcher with a special interest in misophonia, a sensitivity to specific sounds like eating, breathing, tapping and rustling. She sees clients of all ages with misophonia at the Oxford Health Specialist Psychological Intervention Centre and runs a weekly supervision and skills group for therapists seeing individuals with misophonia.
Her research at the University of Oxford is focused on trying to understand what leads to more severe experiences of misophonia, and what we can do to improve the lives of people with misophonia and their families. She is working alongside people with lived experience of misophonia to better understand the treatment needs for misophonia and to develop ways of getting more support out to people whole lives are impacted by this under-recognised phenomenon.
Jane qualified as a clinical psychologist in Australia, where she worked in a primary care psychology service before moving to the UK in 2010. She previously worked in a Talking Therapies service (formally IAPT) managing psychological well-being practitioners, and in a national highly specialised service for people with severe obsessive-compulsive disorder and body-dysmorphic disorder. She then completed a three-year Wellcome Trust clinical research fellowship to follow her interest in misophonia and to transition to a clinical research career. She is an Engagement Ambassador for the Department of Experimental Psychology, helping to engage public and patient audiences in academic research, particularly through the use of storytelling and comedy.
