Dr Sara Willott PhD

• BSc Social Psychology LSE
• PhD Psychology
• ClinPsyD

Sara joined the Course team in December 2025. Before clinical psychology training, Sara qualified as a nurse and completed a PhD in the social construction of masculine identities, drawing primarily on a social justice and a Foucauldian discourse analytic perspective. After qualifying as a clinical psychologist, Sara worked in a variety of roles within a range of services (primarily within the NHS), with an increasing focus on trauma. Services include primary care/ family, working age adult CMHT, Refugee Wellbeing and Freedom from Torture. She works in an integrative way, drawing on therapeutic models that include Systemic/Narrative, EMDR and CBT. For the last 14 years (before joining the course team), she worked in a service for people with intellectual disabilities as trauma lead. She has remained research active following her PhD.

Sara teaches on the Clinical Psychology doctoral course.

Sara supervises trainees conducting research projects as part of the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and the Doctorate in Forensic Clinical Psychology.

• Trauma and the impact of people with intellectual disabilities. 
• Qualitative methods, particularly discourse analysis. 
• Systemic and Narrative therapeutic models.