Dr Natalie Kemp

I am a Principal Lecturer and EDI Co-Lead based in the Clinical Team on the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire. Part of my role is to supervise trainee Major Research Projects. I supervise primarily qualitative research. 

Currently I am supervising trainee research on the following: 

• The extent of Expert by Experience co-production in Doctorate in Clinical Psychology training.
• Anti-Racist training within Doctorate in Clinical Psychology training.
• Dual experience (mental health professional also with lived experience) of premature termination of treatment in Anorexia Nervosa.
• Experiences of mental health professionals with a diagnosis of a 'personality disorder'.
• Experiences of Black Trainee Clinical Psychologists, with lived experience of mental health difficulties, accessing local support. 

Publications

N. Kemp, K. Scior, H. Clements & K. Mackenzie-White. (2020). Supporting and valuing lived experience of mental health difficulties in clinical psychology training. The British Psychological Society. 

C. Hogg & N. Kemp. (2020). Statement on clinical psychologists with lived experience of mental health difficulties. The British Psychological Society.

A. Rao, N. Kemp, G. Bhutani, R. Morris, E. Summers, K. Brown, J. Clarke & A. Neal. (2021). Building a caring work culture - what good looks like. The British Psychological Society.

My areas of interest are:

• Systemic thinking and anti-stigma work around the experiences of mental health professionals who have their own mental health difficulties.
• Burnout and moral injury in the helping professions.
• Expert by Experience co-production and co-design in mental health.
• Shamanic, animist, global earth-based spiritual practices, nature healing, forest bathing and mental health.
• Planetary health, ecocide and mental health
• Activism and mental health.