Staff Profile
Dr Jasmine Childs-Fegredo
Senior Lecturer, Counselling Psychology
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I am a chartered Counselling Psychologist registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), chartered and accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS), and a fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). As well as undertaking teaching and research in academia, I have experience working as a clinician in the NHS, most recently in Child and Young People's services, providing psychological interventions to children, young people, and their families.
I have been a university lecturer since 2018, teaching mainly on the doctorate in counselling psychology, and also on psychology masters and undergraduate programmes.
My areas of expertise are qualitative research methods and contemporary psychological therapies such as Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT). I am a humanistic practitioner and educator, with an interest in trauma-informed care.
- School – School of Education, Language and Psychology
- Email – j.childsfegredo@yorksj.ac.uk
- Phone – 01904 876 715
Teaching
At York St John University, I teach extensively on a BPS & HCPC accredited doctoral programme in counselling psychology as well as undergraduate psychology.
My areas of teaching are in developing core clinical skills, qualitative research methods, and psychological therapies.
Research
I carried out a post-doc at the University of Cambridge, where my research focused on the early identification of mental health in primary schools, and the effects of mindfulness on academic performance. My current research projects include developing yoga-integrated psychotherapy for emotion dysregulation and the value of humanistic counselling in schools.
I am currently the early-career researcher representative on the Research Board at the British Psychological Society.
Publications
Childs-Fegredo, J., Fontana, E., Moran, M. & Faulkner, P. (2022). Yoga-integrated psychotherapy for emotion dysregulation: A pilot study. Counselling & Psychotherapy Research. https://doi.org/10.1002/capr.12602
Childs-Fegredo, J., Burn, A.M., Humphrey, A., Jones, P., Ford, T. & Howarth, E. (2020). Acceptability and feasibility of early identification of mental health issues in primary schools: a qualitative exploration of UK school staff and parents’ views. Journal of School Mental Health. doi.org/10.1007/s12310-020-09398-3
Boo, S., Childs-Fegredo, J., Vallender, B., Dufour, G., Jones, P. & Galante, J. (2019). ‘What I would have done is just cram’: a qualitative follow-up study to a randomized control trial to investigate the impact of mindfulness on academic performance. Counselling & Psychotherapy Research, 0:1-16. doi.org/10.1002/capr.12282
Childs-Fegredo, J. (2019). From trainee to trainer. The Psychologist, Jul (32), pp. 54 55
Soneson, E., Childs-Fegredo, J., Anderson, J., Stochl, J., Fazel, M., Ford, T., Humphrey, A., Jones, P. & Howarth, E. (2018). Acceptability for mental health screening for mental health difficulties in primary schools: a survey of UK parents. BMC Public Health, 18(1), 1404. doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-6279-7
Childs-Fegredo, J. & Fellin, L. (2018). ‘Everyone should do it’: client experience of a 12-week adapted dialectical behaviour therapy group programme: an interpretative phenomenological analysis. Counselling & Psychotherapy Research, 18(3), pp 319-331.
Conferences
Childs-Fegredo, J. (2021). Yoga-integrated psychotherapy. Presentation at the Qualitative Research in Mental Health conference, Malta
Childs-Fegredo, J. (2020). Mindfulness for mental health and wellbeing. Online presentation to the Emergency Medical Services committee and members, University of Southern California, U.S.A.
Childs-Fegredo, J. (2019). Yoga-integrated psychotherapy for emotion dysregulation (YiP). Invited speaker to the CREST research group seminar, University of Roehampton, U.K.
Childs-Fegredo, J. (2018). DEAL Study: Early identification of mental health issues in primary schools. Invited speaker to the CREST research group seminar, University of Roehampton, U.K.
Childs-Fegredo, J. (2018). Invited speaker to the Arts and Play Therapies induction programme, University of Roehampton, U.K.
Childs-Fegredo, J. (2018). Mental health? What is ‘normal’ anyway?. Invited speaker at Trinity Hall College, Cambridge, U.K.
Childs-Fegredo, J., Anderson, J., Jones, P., Humphrey, A., & Howarth E. (2017). DEAL: Developing Early Identification and Access in Learning Environments. Poster presented at Public Health England networking event, hosted by University of Cambridge, U.K.
Childs-Fegredo, J. (2017). DEAL: Developing Early Identification and Access in Learning Environments. Invited speaker at Corpus Christi College by the Post-Doc Society of Cambridge.
Childs-Fegredo, J. (2017). Client experience of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and its perceived impact on the process of change. Presentation at the British Psychological Society’s Division of Counselling Psychology annual conference.
Childs-Fegredo, J. (2015). Yoga psychology. Invited speaker to the Black & Asian Counselling Psychology member network group, Division of Counselling Psychology, British Psychological Society, London U.K.
Childs-Fegredo, J. (2015). Client experience of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). Poster presented at the British Psychological Society’s Division of Counselling Psychology annual conference.
Professional activities
I am a doctoral research supervisor, and carry out work as an internal and external VIVA examiner.
I am the external examiner at the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling (NCPC), and VIVA examiner at Teesside University.
