Biography
Verity has worked in mental health for over twenty-five years as a therapist, coach, trainer and academic.
Verity's teaching interests include:
- Psychosis
- CBT
- Mental Health Law
Doctoral Supervision
Verity has supervised to completion four counselling psychology doctorates on:
- Psychiatric nurses’ experiences of therapeutic relationships with patients in acute inpatient settings
- Experiences of mental health peer support workers within the NHS
- First-generation Nigerian mothers living in the UK and their experience of postnatal depression
- Perceptions of adolescent patients diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder
Doctoral Examinations
Verity has examined four counselling psychology doctorates on subjects including:
- Male Problem Gamblers and their relationship to money
- How Do Individuals Make Sense of Positive Voice Hearing Experiences
- Counselling psychologists talk about doing therapy with working-class clients in an IAPT’s setting
- Autistic Individuals’ Experience of Emotions on Their Sensory World
Publications
Some Trepidation around the Fear Clinic. The Psychologist. Verity Di Mascio, February 2025.
First-generation Nigerian mothers living in the UK and their experience of postnatal depression: an interpretative phenomenological analysis. Lydia L, Yolanda E, Di Mascio, V. Ethnicity and Health. (2022) 10 (1) 1-9.
Critical Factors in Recovery from Postnatal Depression. Di Mascio V, Kent A, Fiander M, Lawrence J. The Archives of Women’s Mental Health. (2008) 11(4), 253-7.
“Gatekeeping Madness” How professional and institutional influences affect the decision to detain patients under Section 4 of the Mental Health Act 1983. Di Mascio V. (2017)
