Louise is a Co-Lead of the Centre for Psychological and Sociological Sciences

She is also Co-Lead for the Exceptional experiences and Consciousness Studies (EECS) special interest research group. 

She's an accredited Psychotherapist and Clinical Supervisor and is interested in the use of psychedelics for therapeutic treatement, and psychedelic integration. Her research interests are in the phenomenology of transpersonal, exceptional and paranormal experiences and their transformative nature. She is currently working on a University of Northampton Early Career Reward project in conjunction with colleagues at the University of Lorraine, France, The Epilepsy Society, UK, and Epilepsy Ireland. She is passionate about qualitative experience and engaging the voices of marginalised groups and individuals into research and society. She has contributed book chapters and a journal paper, and is working on publication of her PhD findings.

In her spare time, she's interested in archaeology, visiting musuems and art galleries. Hobbies include poetry and painting, and wild swimming and gardening with her family.

Research interests include mystical, anomalous and transpersonal experiences, clinical parapsychology and spirituality in epilepsy. I am also intersted in researching spirituality in psychotherapy and counselling, transpersonal practices in therapy, and the wounded healer.

Methodologies - narrative (particularly autoethnography), Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, Reflexive Thematic Analysis.

Integration of psychedlic experiences and the wounded healer in therapy.

Exceptional and Transpersonal human experiences.

Qulitative research approaches.

External Examiner - Alef Trust, MSc Consciousness, Spirituality and Transpersonal Psycholog

External Examiner - University of Salford, MSc Counselling & Psychotherapy

External Examiner - Theorising Noetic Exceptional Experiences for Social Work Practice - Helen Parish (Curtin University, Australia)

External Examiner - How do hypnotherapists perceive the experience of intuition in their work? A qualitative study - Teja Barr (University of West London, UK)

Course Leader - MSc Counselling

Co-Lead Centre for Psychological and Sociological Studies

Co-Lead Exceptional Experiences and Consciousness Studies Special Interest Research Group

Programme Manager - Dublin Centre for Therapy and Counselling

Knowledge and Critical Examination of Evidence Suggesting Survival as an Aid to Grief Recovery - Dr Piero Parasetti

Mixed methodologies to explore the nature of healing in the non-contact healing - Yi Deng

An Exploration of the Transfer of Physical Symptoms in Therapists Working With Clients Experiencing Medically Unexplained Physical Symptoms - Anne Hagues

The impact of therapeutic Spirit Release Therapy on non-clinical population - Debbie Ison

The Experience of Spiritualist Mental Mediumship Development - Fil Kinnersley

Mapping the circumstances, phenomenology and impact of paranormal experiences - Sophie Morrison

How do mothers make sense of their children's rejection of them after divorce or separation?  - Karen Woodall

Exploring the experience of being a peer mentor in substance misuse treatment and recovery services - An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) - Jane Wright