Lucy Chilton is an aspiring Clinical Psychologist, currently working as an Assistant Psychologist within the Staffordshire & Stoke-on-Trent Ascend Sexual Abuse Recovery Service. She is chartered with the British Psychological Society. After completing a degree in Psychology at the University of Leicester and volunteering as a group facilitator for a men’s managing anxiety group with Leicestershire Life Links, she went on to gain an MSc in Foundations of Clinical Psychology at Staffordshire University. Through these experiences Lucy gained a special interest in the barriers to therapeutic engagement & help seeking behaviours. Resultantly Lucy completed her MSc dissertation exploring the barriers to help seeking behaviours to military personnel with PTSD. She has since gone on to work as a recovery worker, supporting individuals being discharged from acute inpatient mental health services, further fuelling her passion to identify and fill current gaps within NHS mental heath services. Together these experienced led to Lucy’s current role, in a new service aiming to fill a gap between primary & secondary mental health services, specifically treating and stabilising those presenting with complex PTSD resulting from a history of sexual assault and abuse. She has been involved in the development and facilitation of the services grounding emotions programme, consulting with Voluntary, Community & Social Enterprise sectors to ensure holistic & integrated care, whilst conducting research, service evaluations and audits in the aim of expanding and replicating this new service. Lucy is committed to helping vulnerable members of our society recover from trauma through utilising techniques and providing psychoeducation around evidenced based Psychological Practices such as Compassion Focused Therapy, Mindfulness practices, Cognitive Therapy for PTSD and Acceptance & Commitment Therapy.