CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY · HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

Understanding people from science to story.

Eleni’s work sits where scientific thinking, psychological practice and lived experience meet. Her interests span child and family development, neuroscience, mental health, trauma-informed care and the stories people use to make sense of difficult experiences.

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Eleni PanayiotouPsychology · development · research · mental health

CURRENT PROFILE

A science-led route into clinical psychology.

Public professional information identifies Eleni as a final-year Trainee Clinical Psychologist at the University of Hertfordshire, with placement experience at North London NHS Foundation Trust. Her earlier Nottingham activity includes psychology mentoring, public engagement and Alzheimer’s-related research.

2023–26Clinical psychology doctoral training · University of Hertfordshire

NHSPlacement experience · North London NHS Foundation Trust

APOE ε4Earlier literature work around Alzheimer’s disease

NottinghamPsychology mentoring, public engagement and student development

SCIENCE FOUNDATION

Evidence first

A scientific way of thinking runs through the profile: asking precise questions, reviewing evidence and translating complex ideas into practical understanding.

2016–2018 · NOTTINGHAM

Psychology & public engagement

Peer mentoring in the School of Psychology and public-facing sessions on behaviour, perception, illusions and mental wellbeing.

2019 · BRAIN INJURY SUPPORT

Headway volunteering

Supported people living with complex neurological difficulties through structured creative, social and practical activities.

2023–2026 · CLINICAL TRAINING

Doctoral-level practice

Advanced clinical and research training with NHS placement experience and a doctoral research project centred on women’s mental-health narratives.

NEUROSCIENCE INTERESTS

The brain is biological, developmental and deeply social.

01 · DEVELOPMENT

Neurodevelopment across childhood

How cognitive, emotional and social systems develop together, and how relationships and environment shape that trajectory.

02 · MEMORY

Learning, memory & adaptation

Interest in mechanisms connecting brain function with behaviour, including earlier work reviewing the APOE ε4 literature in Alzheimer’s disease.

03 · REGULATION

Emotion, stress & nervous-system regulation

A clinical lens on how threat, attachment, coping and meaning-making interact with psychological wellbeing.

04 · TRANSLATION

Science into practical care

Turning complex evidence into language and strategies that make sense to real people, families and communities.

KNOWLEDGE MAP

Different lenses. One person.

This section works like a small interactive knowledge map rather than a standard CV. Select a lens to explore how the themes connect.

Attachment & relationships

Development is not only an individual process. Caregiving, safety, consistency, communication and social context all matter.

Play, learning & emotion

Everyday interaction can offer windows into regulation, cognitive flexibility, confidence and the child’s experience of the world.

Assessment as formulation

Clinical work goes beyond labels. It asks what happened, what maintains distress, what protects the person and what change would be meaningful.

Evidence with humanity

Research evidence, clinical skill and the person’s own goals need to sit together in a useful, respectful formulation.

Voice, agency & safety

Trauma-informed care prioritises control, consent, pace and respect for the person’s own account of their experience.

Narrative and identity

Eleni’s public doctoral research explores how women survivors of childhood sexual abuse narrate their mental-health journeys and relate to diagnostic language such as BPD/EUPD.

Public psychology

Earlier work included educational presentations on behaviour, perception, illusions and mental wellbeing for primary-school pupils.

Practical career education

Her public profile also describes a practical guide created for psychology graduates seeking their first role in mental health.

RESEARCH & EVIDENCE

Questions with real-world consequences.

Her public research activity shows a consistent interest in lived experience, mental-health narratives, neuroscience and making complex psychological ideas accessible.

DOCTORAL RESEARCH

How women narrate mental-health journeys after childhood sexual abuse.

The public recruitment information describes a study focused on how women aged 18–35 who have survived childhood sexual abuse and received a BPD/EUPD diagnosis make sense of their mental-health stories, including whether diagnostic frameworks feel helpful, unhelpful or incomplete.

Public professional profile ↗

APOE ε4 & Alzheimer’sEarlier literature-review work exploring the role of APOE ε4 in Alzheimer’s disease.

Peer mentoringOne-to-one and group support for first-year psychology students.

Mental-health supportNightline volunteering and mental-health support experience appear on her public professional profile.

THE HUMAN SIDE

Scientist. Psychologist. Researcher. Mother.

Professional knowledge matters, and so does the ordinary complexity of family life. Eleni’s story includes both. The same curiosity that drives her interest in brain, behaviour and development sits alongside the patience, humour, uncertainty and perspective that come with being a mother.

This site keeps those worlds connected: rigorous enough for professional work, warm enough to still feel human.

BOOK NOW

Start with the kind of conversation you need.

Choose a child-focused, psychology-informed or general reflective session, or simply start with an introductory chat. Requests are confirmed directly with Eleni and remain subject to her professional scope and availability.

Child & family session

A child-focused or parent/family conversation around development, emotions, behaviour, relationships or concerns you want to think through.

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Psychology-informed session

A structured conversation around wellbeing, patterns, coping, relationships, change or a specific psychological question you want to explore.

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Reflective / intellectual session

For a thoughtful discussion around psychology, behaviour, development, neuroscience, ideas or a personal topic you want to examine more deeply.

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CONTACT ELENI

Talk directly with Eleni.

For session requests, collaboration, research questions or an initial conversation, use email, phone or WhatsApp.

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