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April Agustudottir

Senior Lecturer

School of Social Sciences

Role

April is a senior lecturer at NTU offering insight to therapeutic skills and theoretical backgrounds of Psychodynamic theory.

In addition to teaching modules with focuses on counselling and psychotherapy, April also teaches on modules linked with mental health, such as, Contemporary Issues in Mental Health, and Working with Trauma and Children and Adolescents.

April is also currently aiding in the development of a master's course in Counselling and Psychotherapy.

Career overview

Before joining NTU, April worked as an Associate Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London while completing her PhD.

Research areas

April has recently finished a PhD focused on gaps in Psychodynamic psychotherapy and counsellor training programmes at master's level throughout England. This too has informed her teaching material and approach to better support students in training to become therapists. Previously, April conducted research which focused on the harmful effects of working with CSA in a limited timeframe or wheen a pracititioner has inadequate training.

External activity

April is also a qualified and BACP-accredited psychotherapist and counsellor and outside of NTU, April runs a private practice 2 days a week. April uses real-life clinical experiences to inform her teachings in counselling and psychotherapy related topics.

Course(s) I teach on