Elena Bragulat Martinez

Clinical experience:

• Working clinically with sexual trauma in young people.
• Providing trauma related consultations and trauma-informed care training to social services and other services.
• Conducting individual therapy with adults and young people within Community Mental Health services, including experience working with PTSD, anxiety, bipolar disorder, LD, and OCD.

Research experience:

• Research project on incorporating trauma-informed care and Compassion Focused care on supported accommodation for unaccompanied young asylum seekers.
• Research project on voice-hearing, looking at what coping mechanisms for dealing with voices are better depending on attachment.
• Systematic review on CBT and cultural adaptations for war trauma in MENA region.

• Group therapy and workshops in inpatient wards.
• Developed comprehensive case reports for patient progress tracking.
• Conducted assessments for effective treatment planning.

• Working in therapeutic house for people with psychosis.
• Performed psychology workshops and training for staff.
• Social care liaising.
• Collaborating with reflective practice for staff team.

• Working with homelessness and domestic abuse victims - engagement work, emotional regulation, crisis work.
• Improved clients' coping mechanisms through mindfulness-based stress reduction techniques.
• Conducted risk assessments to safeguard individuals from self-harm or harm towards others.

• Group therapy for addiction.
• Trauma-informed work
• Managing and collaborating with reflective practice and training with staff team.