Samantha Hartley

Samantha Hartley is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester's Division of Psychology & Mental Health, affiliated with Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust where she works in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). Her academic career includes a HEE/NIHR Integrated Clinical Academic Lectureship focused on developing interventions to enhance therapeutic relationships. She holds a Doctor of Clinical Psychology (2015), PhD in Clinical Psychology (2012), and BA in Experimental Psychology (2006) from Oxford University.

Research interests center on child/adolescent mental health, non-suicidal self-injury, therapeutic relationships, and mindfulness-based interventions. Her work contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals related to mental health and education. Notable projects include systematic reviews on self-harm recovery narratives and psychotherapy experiences, as well as longitudinal studies on bisexual youth self-injury.

Professional roles include Principal Clinical Psychologist at Pennine Care NHS and previous editorship of Psychology and Psychotherapy. Current research emphasizes clinical-academic integration, with grants supporting therapeutic relationship interventions.