Dr Jasmine Childs-Fegredo

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 have several international and national research collaborations to develop Yoga-integrated Psychotherapy (YiP) and contemplative practices into healthcare. These are the Contemplative Practices Center at the University of Melbourne, The National Institute for Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS, India), and Birkbeck, University of London. I have been an invited speaker to various institutions to consider how to integrate yoga and spirituality into healthcare. 

At the beginning of my career I carried out a post-doc at the University of Cambridge which fostered good links and understandings of developing research. These projects focused on the early identification of mental health issues in schools and mindfulness. 
Going forwards I am keen to translate research into clinical practice and vice versa - making the most of the clinician-scientist role.

Publications

Cooper, M. Smith, S., Sumner, A.L., Eilienberg, J., Childs-Fegredo, J., Kelly, S., Subramanian, P., Holmes, J., Barkham, M., Bower, P., Cromarty, K., Duncan, C., Pearce, P., Rameswari, T., Ryan, G., Saxon, D. & Stafford, M. (2025). Humanistic Therapy for Young People: Helpful Aspects, Hindering Aspects, and Processes of Change. Journal of Child and Family Studies.

Childs-Fegredo, J. (2024). Introducing yoga-integrated psychotherapy (YiP). A discussion paper. Counselling & Psychotherapy Research, 00, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1002/capr.12809

Al-Murri, B. & Childs-Fegredo, J. (2023). The individual in context. In Charura, D. & Winter, L. (Eds.). The Handbook of Social Justice. Sage.

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. (2025). Yoga-integrated Psychotherapy (YiP). Harvard University (online).

Childs-Fegredo, J. (2025). Yoga-integrated Psychotherapy (YiP). National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, India.

Childs-Fegredo, J. (2024). Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). University of Melbourne, Australia.

Childs-Fegredo, J. (2023). Yoga-integrated Psychotherapy. European Congress of Psychology. Brighton, U.K.

Childs-Fegredo, J. (2023). Yoga and psychology for mental health and wellbeing. Pint of Science Festival, York, U.K.

Childs-Fegredo, J. (2023). Yoga and Psychology: an evidenced-based approach to staff and student wellbeing. Let’s talk about teaching conference, York St John University, U.K.

Childs-Fegredo, J. (2022). Yoga-integrated psychotherapy for young people. Invited presentation at the COMIC conference hosted by the University of York, U.K.

Childs-Fegredo, J. (2022). Navigating the academic trajectory: From post-doc to lectureship. Invited presentation at Trinity Hall College, Cambridge, U.K.

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.