Dr. Libby Nugent: Clinical Psychologist

22/03/2026

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20/03/2026

19/03/2026

Following the thoughtful responses to a recent post about the Unsettled Minds idea, I’ve decided to convene an initial online conversation.

The aim is to create a space to think together about areas of psychological life that currently feel difficult to approach, speak about, or stay with.

This will be a first step, with a view to developing a larger in-person forum in the autumn.

If this feels relevant to your work, you’d be very welcome to join. Follow the eventbrite link for more information and to book on:

A reflective conversation for psychological practitioners exploring where thinking feels pressured, constrained, or difficult to voice.

13/03/2026

Thrilled to share that I'm on the latest episode of Just One Thing for Parents with the wonderful Dr Bettina Hohnen!

This is a special long-form conversation (the first for her new series of deeper dives) and is with me and fellow clinical psychologist Dr. Anna Hutchinson. We explore the big rise in mental health and neurodiversity diagnoses: what's might be driving it, what it means for children, families, and society, and the balance between the real help diagnoses can offer (validation, reducing shame, understanding ourselves better) and their limitations or risks in our current systems.

🎧 Episode 64: A Long-Form Special: Living in the Age of Diagnosis
Link: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6E8hUyNNKR9Blv7NkkYkiv?si=SqeBpQKSTtCyadsoRXlssA

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12/03/2026

What happens when we try to remove hierarchy from complex systems?

In my experience it rarely disappears. Instead, it becomes implicit.

Power moves sideways into moral authority, social dominance, and ideological certainty. Responsibility becomes harder to locate. And the people most exposed to risk are often those with the least institutional protection.

This short Symbolic Currents essay began with a childhood memory about cutting the hair off a set of Flower Fairies. It ended up as a reflection on hierarchy, responsibility, and what happens when power is disavowed rather than owned.

Full piece below.

When I was a child, I desperately wanted the Flower Fairies fairyland home. A girl round the corner had one. I would go to her house and play reverently, careful not to break anything. I was afraid that if I wanted it too much, or said the wrong thing, I wouldn’t be allowed to play at all.One day ...

11/03/2026

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09/03/2026

Fairy tales are often treated as children’s stories. But historically, they were something quite different.
Long before psychology had textbooks, communities used stories to think about fear, rivalry, loss, and transformation. Myths and fairy tales acted as symbolic containers for experiences that were difficult to approach directly.
In this short talk I explore how stories function within groups, drawing on group analytic theory and the idea of the matrix. When a story enters a group, it can become a shared symbolic object and is something members think with, rather than simply interpret.

The story of the Minotaur is one of the most enduring myths of the ancient world. At its centre is a labyrinth, a monster, and a thread.Why has this story co...

08/03/2026