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Katy Wakelin
Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences
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Biography
Katy is an academic and UKCP registered Psychotherapist and supervisor who works in private practice as well as teaching on the BA in Education and the MA in Education in the School of Education. Her interests include the role of emotion in learning in particular shame and anxiety, and women's health.
She is currently teaching difference and diversity and understanding counselling in education for the BA Education students and schools, society and mental well-being for the MA Education students.
Expertise Summary
Humanistic approaches to therapy, emotion and learning, women's health, creative and self-reflective approaches to research.
Teaching Summary
Schools, Society and Mental Well-being, optional module on the MA Education
Counselling in Education: difference and diversity and Understanding Counselling in Education to BA Education Students.
Research Summary
The experience of university students with shame in higher education settings, both undergraduate and post-graduate students. I am currently looking at anxiety in undergraduate students using… read more
Recent Publications
KATY WAKELIN, 2024. Karen Horney: trailblazer and Gestalt inspiration British Gestalt Journal. 33(2), 5-12
KATY WAKELIN, 2023. It's OK, You're just learning. In: TINA BYROM and JACKIE CAWKWELL, eds., The Teaching and Learning Challenges of 21st-Century Higher Education: Prioritising Pedagogy Cambridge Scholars. 113-122
Current Research
The experience of university students with shame in higher education settings, both undergraduate and post-graduate students. I am currently looking at anxiety in undergraduate students using creative and collaborative research methods.
Past Research
Shame in learning; autoethnographic study of chronic pain.
KATY WAKELIN, 2024. Karen Horney: trailblazer and Gestalt inspiration British Gestalt Journal. 33(2), 5-12
KATY WAKELIN, 2023. It's OK, You're just learning. In: TINA BYROM and JACKIE CAWKWELL, eds., The Teaching and Learning Challenges of 21st-Century Higher Education: Prioritising Pedagogy Cambridge Scholars. 113-122
RACHEL MURPHY, BELINDA HARRIS and KATHARINE WAKELIN, 2022. Riding a rollercoaster in a hurricane: Researching my own chronic illness Qualitative Research Journal. 22(2), 248-260 KATY WAKELIN, 2021. Authentic muddle: Revisiting authenticity in psychotherapy British Gestalt Journal. 30(2), 12-20
KATY WAKELIN, 2016. Strategic research: using CORE to establish an evidence base. In: JAN ROUBAL, ed., Towards a research tradition in gestalt therapy Cambridge Scholars.
KATY WAKELIN, 2016. Why would anyone want to be a therapist? British Gestalt Journal. 24(2),
KATY WAKELIN, 2011. The UK gestalt psychotherapy CORE research project: the findings British Gestalt Journal. 22(1),
KATY WAKELIN, 2005. On being a mother British Gestalt Journal. 24(2),