I am a BPS Chartered Counselling Psychologist. My training involved a variety of therapeutic approaches including those from cognitive, dynamic, systemic and humanistic models. I have worked across all levels of Mental Health, from Primary Care to specialist areas such as, HIV Psychology, Psychosis and Complex Mental Health as well as Forensic Services.
My own background is diverse but, is also holistic in nature. My first degree is in medicine but, I have always tried to understand alternative perspectives outside a medical paradigm. I studied Cranio-sacral therapy, Reiki and meditation in Russia, India and the UK. Whilst on a quest for further self-development, I have discovered that Psychology could provide a much needed interface between physical and mental space.
My own professional philosophy lies within the exploration of meanings, existential analysis and phenomenology. It also recognizes a role of trauma and a need for therapeutic adjustment in this light.
I strongly belief that mind body approach really matters and my previous experience of working in alternative fields have become a strong foundation of my own views and understanding of human functioning.
I work short term and long term which largely depends on your requests from therapy.
Locations:
The House on Snow Hill
1 Snow Hill Court
London EC1A 2EJ
The House on Wimpole Street
85 Wimpole Street
London W1G 9RJ
Practice Rooms
150 Caledonian Road
London N1 9RD
A bit more about me and some of my work....
Public speaking
2022 Guest lecturer: Professional Doctorate in Counselling Psychology. City University, London.
2020 Psychosis: an International Perspective
. Lawrence, S. & Fuller, P. (USA) for Interregional Center for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, St Petersburg, Russia.
2018 Guest lecturer: MSc Forensic Psychology programme. University of Winchester, UK.
2018 Counselling Psychology CPD programme. Moscow State University, Russia.
2017 Making real change happen
. International Congress ISPS. University of Liverpool UK.
2016 Therapeutic Relationships: Challenges to Mental Health Services
, Conference, University of Exeter, UK.
2016 From Reductionism to Humanism
, ISPS Conference, University of Boston, USA.
2015 Guest lecturer on Professional Doctorate in Counselling Psychology. City University, London.
2014 Developing Psychosis Services
. HSSD, Guernsey.
Research and Publications:
Lawrence, S. (2021).
Making sense of Madness: a meaning making of a psychotic communication in teams.
Downloaded from: https://www.academia.edu/49961830/Making_sense_of_Madness_a_meaning_making_of_a_psychotic_communication_in_teams DOI:
10.20935/AL1401
Lawrence, S. (2020).
Mental pollutions or polluted mind: how can Counselling Psychology respond to environmental loss as a threat to our survival
Conference: DCoP annual virtual conference
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Age of Anxiety At:
unpublished
Lawrence, S., Mayon-White, E. (2017)
Dexit: Divisions and Divorce in the BPS?
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Brooker A., Canete, M., Dada, M., Hughes, E., Lawrence, S., Loewenthal, D. Mason, J., Parsole, S. Reflections on the first year of a critical psychotherapy supervision collective.
Self & Society, An International Journal for Humanistic Psychology
(2017), Vol. 45, Issue 1.
Lawrence, Mayon-White, Cross (2016). A New Psychologist : Mergers and Acquisitions. The Psychologist pp 36-39.
Lawrence, Miller & Cross (2014). The Scientist and the Creator: Adaptive Dissociation with HIV positive population.
The British Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Lawrence & Mayon-White.(2014) A thought crime or a ‘dead mother’?
Counselling Psychology Review, Vol. 29, No. 3 pp 65-66
My experience of the International ISPS Conference in Warsaw (Lawrence, 2014, Winter).
ISPS-UK: Newsletters of the International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis.
Lawrence & Cross (2013). Life transition with HIV: some observations of the phenomenon of growing older with the infection.
Counselling Psychology Review
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