Dr Yasmine Dunn is an HCPC registered Clinical Psychologist. Yasmine completed her undergraduate degree in 2010 and masters degree in 2011, both at Northumbria University. Yasmine qualified as a Clinical Psychologist from Teesside University in September 2020. 

Following qualification, Yasmine gained a position as a Highly Specialised Clinical Psychologist working in primary care. She has developed skills in working with adults who present with complex trauma and has post qualification training in the use of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.

Yasmine's special interests include understanding and working with complex and collective trauma. She is especially interested in working with minority ethnic communities, particularly those from refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds. 

Her therapeutic interests include Cognitive Analytic Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Internal Family Systems Therapy.

Yasmine was appointed as Senior Lecturer in November 2021. She is involved in teaching across a number of different modules on the doctorate, as well as supervising doctoral theses. Yasmine also sits on the equality and diversity steering group on the clinical doctorate and has an active interest in improving diversity and inclusion within Clinical Psychology as a profession. 

• Complex trauma in individuals  
• Collective trauma 
• Pre and post migration stressors in refugee and asylum seeker communities 
• Socio-cultural influences on mental health 
• Internal Family Systems Therapy 

Dunn, Y., Summers, S.J. (A)., & Dagnan, D., (2023). Facilitating transformative endings: Therapist's experiences of ending therapy with people with intellectual disabilities: an Interpetative Phenomenological Analysis. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities.

Dunn, Y., Summers, S.J.(A). and Dagnan, D. (2023), "A survey of therapists’ experience of ending therapy with people with intellectual disabilities", Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/AMHID-04-2023-0012