Dr Hannah Jones , ForenPsyD MSc BA(Hons) CPsychol AFBPsS

Profile

Hannah is a Chartered Forensic Psychologist, an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS), and sits on the Training Committee for the Division of Forensic Psychology. She completed her Doctorate in Forensic Psychology at the University of Birmingham, where her research explored the link between domestic abuse, personality pathology, and parenting behaviour - work that underpins her expertise in understanding domestic abuse, coercive control, and their link to personality pathology and vulnerability.

From 2017 to 2024, Hannah was Programme Director for the MSc in Forensic Psychology & Mental Health, leading a major redevelopment that resulted in Stage 1 BPS accreditation. She is passionate about education and student experience, teaching across postgraduate programmes and supervising doctoral students. She is committed to driving educational excellence and innovation within postgraduate training in mental health and applied psychology, with a focus on preparing students to work effectively and compassionately with complex mental health and forensic presentations.

Hannah’s clinical and expert witness practice focuses on domestic abuse, coercive control, and trauma within the family justice system. She has extensive experience in the assessment of parents in public and private law proceedings, using a trauma-informed and domestic abuse-informed approach. She also undertakes expert witness assessments across multiple settings, including the criminal justice system, bringing a nuanced understanding of risk, personality pathology, and trauma to complex cases. She has undertaken training in a range of therapeutic approaches that she integrates into her clinical practice, including Schema Therapy, Mentalisation-Based Treatment, Narrative Exposure Therapy, and brief Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. She regularly provides consultation, supervision, and training to legal and mental health professionals on recognising and responding to coercive control, trauma, and complex risk presentations. Hannah contributes to the development of practice and policy in this area, supporting a more robust and psychologically informed response to domestic abuse and coercive control in family court proceedings.

Research

Research Interests:

My research interests surround parents in the Family Court, coercive control, personality pathology, in addition to the relationship between childhood maltreatment and offending behaviour.

Supervision

I supervise the following PhD students:

• Kolbrun Kristinsdottir -The role of Extreme Overvalued beliefs in lone actor violence

I also supervise the following post-doc fellowship:

• Dr Georgina Mathlin - Open prison services for males with personality disorder.