Dr Christopher Lloyd

Dr Christopher Lloyd


Dr Christopher joined the University of Westminster as a Lecturer in Psychology in September 2023. He originally trained as a Counselling Psychologist. He is an experienced qualitative researcher and has approaching 30 peer-reviewed publications. He has a particular interest in more novel forms of qualitative data collections methods, such as story completion. He is especially interested in the transformative power of qualitative research to challenge stigma and reduce mental health inequalities.

His research expertise explores the intersection between religious understandings of mental distress, predominantly (but not exclusively) amongst Christians and how these might impact individual and collective wellbeing. A principal aim of his work is to understand, interrogate, and dismantle religious mental health stigma so that people who experience mental illness can be better supported. He has published expertise in a wide array of analytic methods, including reflexive thematic analysis, discourse analysis and interpretative phenomenological analysis. 

He is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (AFBPsS), as well as a Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol). He holds Fellowship status (FHEA) with the Higher Education Academy. 


  • Religious mental health stigma.
  • Religious and culturally adapted psychotherapies.
  • Psychotherapy processes (working with goals, online therapies and psychotherapy integration).
  • Novel qualitative methods (e.g. Story completion).


  • Centre for Psychological Sciences

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In brief

Research areas

Mental health, Religion, Spirituality and Culture, Qualitative Research Methods, Stigmatised Identities and Counselling Psychology

Skills / expertise

Counselling Psychology, Mental Health, Religion and Culture and Qualitative Research Methods

Supervision interests

Mental Health, Religion and Culture, Qualitative Research Methods, Christianity and Identity and Culture