Amanda is a graduate student in the Psychosis Studies Department at King’s College London. Her research interests include psychosis and schizophrenia, as well as personality disorders and substance use. She also favours lived experience and qualitative methods, although she has experience with mixed and quantitative methods. Amanda's research interests includes addiction, anxiety, complex emotional needs, loneliness, minorities and inequalities, psychedelics, psychosis, psychotherapies, social determinants, suicide/self-harm, trauma, violence, abuse and forensic psychology.
KCL MSc student Amanda Lunsford explores the impact of gallery-based art therapy on mental wellbeing, self-expression, and personal growth. What could this creative, community-based approach mean for young people?