Tara Lepore Email & Phone Number

Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom

Step 4 Psychological Therapies- Delivering 1-to-1 and group brief interventions for people experiencing complex trauma, PTSD and/or persistent anxiety and depression- Contacting people on the waiting list to offer review appointments, and updating the service regarding any relevant circumstantial changes- Scoring, uploading and analysing outcome measures.

Managing a caseload of service users in secondary mental healthcare with interventions including graded exposure, anxiety management and behavioural activation. This role has increased my understanding of clinical decision-making, multidisciplinary approaches to care and improved my communication skills working one-to-one with adults experiencing distress.

Nottingham, England, United Kingdom

Assisted a weekly peer support group based at Highbury Hospital for people with young onset dementia

Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom

• Assisted the psychology team at the Step 4 County service, which offers focused exploratory psychological therapy
• Attended referral meetings with psychologists, assistant psychologists and psychotherapists
• Scored and uploaded psychological assessments to team databases
• Uploaded documents to client management software to keep records organised and up-to-date

• Supported a group of students throughout a 12-week course of weekly, hour long #Me meetings and provided regular check-ins to keep students updated and engaged
• Helped create a supportive, empathetic and non-judgemental environment for peers to openly share their experiences, emotions and challenges
• Used a variety of #Me resources (logbooks, videos, and coping strategy cards) to encourage self-awareness, develop emotional resilience and to further my knowledge on mental health… Show more
• Used a variety of #Me resources (logbooks, videos, and coping strategy cards) to encourage self-awareness, develop emotional resilience and to further my knowledge on mental health topics
• Developed my leadership, time management and organisational skills as well as building on how to be inclusive, approachable, engaging and actively listen Show less

Nottingham, England, United Kingdom

• Supported service users living in a residential harm reduction setting, with practical and psychosocial interventions, to aid towards their recovery moving on from substance misuse
• Supported the full-time team in planning activities, creating posters and supervising trips in the wider community
• Facilitated therapeutic activities including cooking, music-making and collage sessions, as well as assisting with ACT therapy sessions

Nottingham

• Provided a friendly, approachable service to students visiting the university's Employability Hub
• Triaged and signposted students to appropriate careers services
• Worked with a diverse range of queries, improving my problem-solving and communication skills

• Worked on a qualitative research project investigating the socioeconomic barriers that prevent some BSc Psychology students from taking on a year-long sandwich work placement
• Produced and submitted a research proposal to NTU Social Sciences' Ethics Committee in line with the project's aims
• Interviewed 15 students about their experience using a semi-structured approach, using an interview schedule independently devised following a comprehensive literature review
• Shared… Show more
• Shared outcomes to NTU Employability departmental staff via an online presentation and additionally presented findings at an internal NTU Psychology poster conference attended by faculty staff Show less

• Provided online, text-based support for people accessing Shout's crisis service, implementing skills from mandatory training in crisis de-escalation techniques and appropriate safeguarding procedures.
• Completed 25 hours of training in December 2021 looking at development in areas including core counselling skills, professional boundaries and safeguarding issues

Nottingham

• Facilitated in-person group workshops on sexual consent for first-year undergraduates at Nottingham Trent University.

Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom

• Supported young people to build up their emotional resilience through co-facilitating wellbeing workshops for Year 6 students transitioning to Year 7 and shadowing one-to-one support sessions.

Nottingham

• Worked one day a week in a local secondary school, coaching four students in English, creative writing and personal development skills
• Acted as a positive role model for pupils
• Supported student attainment

Groningen, Netherlands

• Wrote a regular personal finance column for the i paper, as well as taking on freelance assignments for commercial clients.
• Helped build a newsletter project aimed at freelance journalists.

London, United Kingdom

• Produced print, audio and online content for two monthly magazines for the pro audio industry, PSNEurope and Audio Media International

London

• Wrote news, opinion and features for online digital brand The Debrief.
• Led an FOI investigation into abortion waiting times that was published nationally in Grazia magazine and featured on BBC Radio 5 Live
• This internship led to freelance opportunities later in my career with brands such as Grazia, Mother & Baby and Heat magazine

London, United Kingdom

• Assisted the team at Made for Mums website with a complex email project reaching three million monthly users.
• Improved skills in Microsoft Excel, Adobe Photoshop and Google Analytics.

Peterborough

• Wrote news and features for the UK’s leading public transport magazines, routeONE, Coach Monthly and CDC News
• Interviewed key industry figures and consistently produced a high calibre of content to tight deadlines.

Bachelor Of Science - Bsc, Psychology (Mental Health), First Class Honours

Undergraduate research project: Received mid-1st grade for quantitative research project: 'Psychological resources within climate justice.

Postgraduate Certificate, Clinical Applications Of Psychology (Distance-Learning, Part-Time), Distinction

Activities and Societies: Course Representative Modules - Advanced Research Methods in Clinical Psychology - Adult Mental Health - Issues.

Level 2 Certificate In Counselling Skills

Entry-level counselling qualification with modules looking at three main counselling theories (psychodynamic, humanistic and CBT) as well.

Clinical Skills In The Treatment Of Anxiety And Depression: Hands-On Practice And Heads-On Theory

A scientist-practitioner focused course introducing techniques such as exposure therapies, behavioural activation, mindfulness, imagery.

Nctj Diploma In Multimedia Journalism, Distinction

Accredited qualification to work professionally as a journalist. Modules included media law, ethics and regulation, shorthand, public.

Education record

English Language & Literature: A Theatre Studies: A French: D General Studies: A*