All doctoral theses by NSPC students are available via the Middlesex University Research Repository, a searchable online archive of research.
These works span topics in psychotherapy, counselling psychology, and existential practice, as well as maternal, gender, trauma, physical and mental health, cross-cultural, bereavement and neuordiversity, reflecting the depth and diversity of our doctoral community. Doctoral research passed in the last year can be found below and a full list of all doctoral research can be downloaded.
Please note that Master's theses are not stored in the repository and are not currently publicly available in this format.
Doctoral Research passed in 2025
Jamil Ahmed (2025) The Experience of UK Based Healers working with the presentation of Spirit Possession [DProf]
Nikita Amin (2025) The experience of being in counselling with a western counsellor for Indian ethnic minorities who have immigrated to the UK [DCPsych]
Amy Bramley (2025) On becoming woman: an exploration of the lived experience of female adult survivors of adolescent sexual grooming. An existential phenomenological study [DCPsych]
Iulian Chear (2025) ‘En femme…’ A phenomenological-hermeneutic enquiry into the lived experience of crossdressing for adult male-born subjects in the United Kingdom. [DProf]
Jade Copperwheat (2025) Exploring Self-Concept In Women With Overweight or Obesity. [DCPsych]
Sara Goldberg (2025) The experience of Motherhood within the Orthodox Jewish Community [DCPsych]
Rina Kakad (2025) The Experience of love in romantic relationships. An existential phenomenological exploration on the experience of love. [DCPsych]
Leora Kaye (2025) Orthodox Jewish women’s lived experience of pregnancy following a previous miscarriage. [DCPsych]
Stephanie Knight (2025) Cultivating New Ways of Being in the World: An Autoethnographic Exploration and Study of an Existentially Oriented Pathway Through Recovery from Addiction [DCPsych]
Catherine Lemaitre (2025) What is the experience of relational depth for group psychotherapists in process-oriented groups? [DProf]
Ricky Leslie (2025) What is the experience of vivid dreaming and its impact on the dreamer’s life? A phenomenological inquiry [DCPsych]
Marcelo Matias (2025) What is the subjectively lived experience of gay men of their recovery from burnout? [DCPsych]
Derek Mckenzie (2025) From Behind the Veil: Unveiling the Experiences of Black British-Born Males of African Heritage Navigating Psychotherapy Training Within a White Dominated Culture. [DProf]
Neesha Omar (2025) The Lived Experience of losing a mother in adolescence: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. [DCPsych]
Candice O’Neil (2025) Exploring the relational impact of CSA in the female adult survivor population in therapy: An existential perspective and phenomenological enquiry. [DCPsych]
Iouliani Rafaella Papantoniou (2025) The experience of hearing voices of individuals survivors of trauma: An existential inquiry [DCPsych]
Nikki Schreiber (2025) A phenomenological enquiry into the possible psychological impact of the Alexander Technique. [DCPsych]
Mabel Verstraaten-Bortier (2025) The Lived Experience of Therapists Working with Suicidal Clients in Ghana – A Heuristic Study [DProf]
Tilda Yeow (2025) The lived experiences of Awe and connectedness: an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. [DProf]