Dr Darrelle Villa BSc, ClinPsyD, PGCertLTHE

• Doctorate in Clinical Psychology
• Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
• BSc Honours in Psychology

Darrelle completed her doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the University of Birmingham in 2013. She worked as a Clinical Psychologist in brain injury rehabilitation and primary care adult mental health where she became interested in third wave cognitive-behavioural therapies. She took up her first lectureship position in the School of Psychology, University of Worcester in 2016 leading the undergraduate clinical psychology pathway. In August 2019, Darrelle returned to the University of Birmingham to take up a lectureship position on the Undergraduate and Clinical Psychology Programmes.

Darrelle teaches third year specialist undergraduate modules on psychological interventions focusing on cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) and on atypical development and early intervention. On the clinical psychology doctorate, Darrelle delivers CBT teaching, communication skills training and sessions on co-production. She co-facilitates workshops on qualitative data analysis and metasynthesis.

Darrelle supervises projects on the Clinical Psychology Doctorate and the MRes in Clinical Psychology. She is interested in projects on/using:

• Identity and relationships in the context of brain injury.
• Experiences of psychological interventions.
• Qualitative methodologies particularly interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) and metasynthesis of qualitative research.

Identity and relationships in the context of brain injury; experiences of psychological interventions; qualitative approaches; qualitative meta-synthesis.

Registered practitioner psychologist with the Health & Care Professions Council