Claire Marshall

Dr Claire Marshall is a Chartered Psychologist with ten years of experience in private health care, public and third sectors with an extensive background in management, teaching, psychological work and research. An experienced and entrepreneurial manager, Claire has a track record of successfully designing and implementing innovative interventions to address critical mental health issues for organisations and individuals.

Her previous post as Centre & Clinical Manager at a therapeutic service in North London, she held key responsibility for overall service and operations; including recruitment, supervision, management of staff, clinical assessments, allocation decisions and evaluating treatment options within the service. She also ran groups and worked with people one to one, providing short and long term psychological interventions for adults with a range of issues.

Claire has also worked as a psychologist in a number of therapeutic homes in East London for looked after children in care, where she applied a broad theoretical knowledge base and specialist clinical skills to develop and support the staff as appropriate, including training, clinical supervision and consultation within multidisciplinary team meetings. She also worked closely with social services, GPs, psychiatrists and CAMHS to support the young people and their families.

In the past she has managed services supporting men and women experiencing domestic abuse and worked within a substance misuse facility, supporting recovery through psychological intervention. Claire has also worked as an academic consultant at a North London psychotherapy training institution, a forensic rehabilitation unit, in private practice and as an associate psychologist within a therapeutic team offering private therapy in central London.

She has a strong commitment to social justice issues, with a particular focus on forced migrants. Her work has contributed to projects running in collaboration with international bodies such as the United Nations and the European Commission, working with migrants and returnees. She has also worked with an NGO providing remote supervision to psychosocial workers stationed abroad in refugee camps, overcoming language and cultural barriers and sensitively adapting the application of psychological concepts

Claire has presented internationally at press conferences and seminars on phenomenology, migration and psychology. Her research has contributed to United Nations projects working with asylum seekers and European Commission projects working with migrants and returnees.

Claire completed her academic training in the UK, including an undergraduate degree in Psychology and Creative Writing, a Masters in Research in Professional and Creative Writing, a certificate in Counselling and Psychotherapy and a Doctorate in Counselling Psychology.

Claire lectures at the University of East London on the Professional Doctorate in Counselling Psychology, as well as managing placements for the programme. Her special interests lay in social justice and civic engagement, forced migration, humanitarian interventions in post-conflict zones, post-modern conceptualisations of self, existentialism, phenomenology, ontology and epistemology and cultural conceptualisations of the human condition. She is passionate about the learning experience and engaging with innovative ways to promote competent and inspired practitioners in the field of Counselling Psychology.