Lauren is a consultant forensic psychologist and holds a BSc in Psychology, MSc in Forensic Psychology and a PgDip in Forensic Psychology Practice. Lauren is registered with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Forensic Psychologist and is a graduate member of the British Psychological Society (BPS). She received the BPS Student Award and Highest Scoring Student of the Year Award when she graduated from Northampton University. Lauren is currently completing a PhD in Social Work at Edinburgh University to design and validate a multi-contextual and multi-dimensional measure of social isolation for children.
Lauren has experience working in adult forensic mental health, learning disability and children’s residential settings including specialist forensic, trauma and therapeutic services. Lauren currently specialises in working with looked after children and has worked with children and young people who present with mental health, trauma lived experiences, emotional and or social difficulties. She is trained in various clinical / risk assessment tools including, amongst others, the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule, Weschler Intelligence Scale For Children, Becks Youth Inventories, State – Trait Anger Expression Inventory, Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth, Aim-3 and Aim Under 12; formulation and a range of intervention models and programmes such as Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing, Dialectical Behavioural Therapy, Attachment Based Approaches and forensic interventions i.e The Good Lives Model and Violence is Not The Only Choice.
Alongside direct clinical practice, Lauren is a master trainer on the Ashurst Mastery Model and has delivered training to residential staff, social care workers and youth justice. She regularly facilitates consultations, supervisions and reflective practice sessions with social care / mental health professionals. In addition, Lauren has also co-authored a chapter to inform police interviewing guidelines and practices and is the lead author for papers relating to her PhD.
