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Victoria Pile

Dr Victoria Pile

Lecturer in Clinical Psychology and NIHR Fellow

  • Clinical Psychologist

Research interests

  • Psychology

Biography

Dr Victoria Pile is a Clinical Psychologist and Lecturer in Clinical Psychology at the School of Mental Health & Psychological Sciences at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King's College London. She currently holds an Advanced Fellowship from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).

Victoria’s programme of clinical research focuses on addressing the need for effective early interventions for depression and anxiety in young people. She aims to co-design accessible psychological interventions with young people and practitioners. Her interests lie in identifying and then targeting key cognitive mechanisms implicated in depression and anxiety. For example, IMAGINE is a brief, school-based intervention that harnesses emotional mental imagery to reduce depression.

Clinically, Victoria has primarily worked in CAMHS services, including national and specialist services and CYP-IAPT. Victoria has experience in both teaching and supervising CBT and third-wave therapies, as well as supervising PhD students and trainees on the doctorate in clinical psychology. In addition, Victoria co-leads a multi-disciplinary special interest group for adolescent depression, funded by Emerging Minds (UKRI).

Victoria completed her undergraduate degree at University of Cambridge and then her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology as well as her PhD at King’s College London.

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    Dr Victoria Pile receives NIHR Advanced Fellowship to reduce depression in young people

    The funding will test a new psychological treatment known as IMAGINE which enables young people to harness their imagination to reduce instances of depression

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    Features

    Exploring research into anxiety disorders this Mental Health Awareness Week

    This year, Mental Health Awareness Week took place Monday 15 - Sunday 21 June, following the theme ‘anxiety’. Anxiety is a normal emotion in us all, but...

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      News

      Dr Victoria Pile receives NIHR Advanced Fellowship to reduce depression in young people

      The funding will test a new psychological treatment known as IMAGINE which enables young people to harness their imagination to reduce instances of depression

      Victoria Pile 780x440

      Features

      Exploring research into anxiety disorders this Mental Health Awareness Week

      This year, Mental Health Awareness Week took place Monday 15 - Sunday 21 June, following the theme ‘anxiety’. Anxiety is a normal emotion in us all, but...

      Website Hero (1)