Dr Ann Fitzgerald
Course Leader, DPsych
Department
School of Psychotherapy & Counselling
Psychology
Faculty
HASS (Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences)
Professional affiliation(s)
- Health Professions Council (HPC
Practitioner Psychologist)
- British Psychological Society (Chartered
Psychologist)
Qualifications
- PsychD Psychotherapeutic & Counselling
Psychology, University of Surrey, 2008
- Counselling Skills Cert with first class
honours, Nat. University of Ireland Maynooth, 2005
- BSc in Psychology with first class honours,
Oxford Brookes University, 2002Biography
Biography
Ann has worked full-time for the NHS for the past three years as
part of a multidisciplinary team in Adult Mental Health
services. Her psychotherapeutic approach is eclectic with the
focus being on the process of therapy within the therapeutic
relationship. She recently joined the academic course team at
Regent’s College where her role Course Leader will include
teaching, clinical and research supervision and developing her own
research interests.
Course Development
Currently working with the rest of the team on the development
of the new Professional Doctorate in Existential Phenomenological
Counselling Psychology (DPsych).
PhD and Doctoral Research Supervision and
examining
Nominated as internal examiner for one DCounsPsy trainee
Currently supervising two DCounsPsy trainees
Research Interests
- Therapeutic relationship, in particular looking at
social/emotional processes of interaction
- Personality disorders in general, but with emphasis on
borderline personality disorder (BPD)
- Specialist psychotherapies for BPD patients including
mentalisation based psychotherapy (MBT) and transference focused
psychotherapy (TFP)
- Developmental psychology and how this can inform
psychotherapeutic theory and practice
- Mental Health strategy, service development and service
delivery
- Relational process and psychopathology
List of Publications
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The following two papers are currently in draft format.
Plan to submit to peer review journals in 2012.
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Relational recurrences in the process of therapy: Convergence
and divergence
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A holistic exploration of relational patterns of
communication in the therapeutic relationship: An approach based on
the dyadic patterning of mother-infant communication
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