Academia

Academia & publications

A bit more about my professional background and work.

Registrations & recognition

  • Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (AFBPsS)
  • International Affiliate of the American Psychological Association (APA)
  • European Federation of Psychologists' Associations (EuroPsy)

Public speaking

  • 2023Mad World and Society in Crisis. ISPS Israel, Tel Aviv (cancelled)
  • 2022Guest lecturer: Professional Doctorate in Counselling Psychology, City University, London
  • 2020Psychosis: An International Perspective, with P. Fuller (USA). Center for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, St Petersburg, Russia
  • 2018Guest lecturer: MSc Forensic Psychology, University of Winchester, UK
  • 2018Counselling Psychology CPD programme, Moscow State University, Russia
  • 2017Making Real Change Happen. International Congress ISPS, University of Liverpool, UK
  • 2016Therapeutic Relationships: Challenges to Mental Health Services, University of Exeter, UK
  • 2016From Reductionism to Humanism, ISPS Conference, University of Boston, USA
  • 2015Guest lecturer: Professional Doctorate in Counselling Psychology, City University, London
  • 2014Developing Psychosis Services, HSSD, Guernsey

Research and publications

  • 2023Lawrence, S. (2023). Psychoemotional welfare — how to work through trauma at times of crisis.
  • 2021Lawrence, S. (2021). Making Sense of Madness: a meaning-making of psychotic communication in teams. DOI
  • 2020Lawrence, S., & Mayon-White, E. (2020). Mental pollutions or polluted minds: how can Counselling Psychology respond to loss as a threat to our survival. Conference paper, DCoP Annual Virtual Conference: Age of Anxiety.
  • 2017Lawrence, S., & Mayon-White, E. (2017). Dexit: Divisions and Divorce in the BPS?.
  • 2017Brooker, A., Canete, M., Dada, M., Hughes, E., Lawrence, S., Loewenthal, D., Mason, J., & Parsole, S. (2017). Reflections on the first year of a critical psychotherapy supervision collective. Self & Society: An International Journal for Humanistic Psychology, 45(1).
  • 2016Lawrence, S., Mayon-White, E., & Cross (2016). A New Psychologist: Mergers and Acquisitions. The Psychologist, pp. 36–39.
  • 2014Lawrence, S., Miller, & Cross (2014). The Scientist and the Creator: Adaptive Dissociation with HIV-Positive Population. The British Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy.
  • 2014Lawrence, S., & Mayon-White, E. (2014). A Thought Crime or a 'Dead Mother'?. Counselling Psychology Review, 29(3), 65–66.
  • 2014, WinterLawrence, S. (2014, Winter). My experience of the International ISPS Conference in Warsaw. ISPS-UK Newsletter.
  • 2013Lawrence, S., & Cross (2013). Life transition with HIV: some observations of the phenomenon of growing older with the infection. Counselling Psychology Review.

Professional recognition

“I take heart when I read papers like yours.”
Registered nurse, acute inpatient mental health, New Zealand
“Your letter 'Making Sense of Madness' is a modern masterpiece.”
Retired research psychologist
“Your article is so very helpful in this regard, almost more so for the spirit it communicates.”
Masters-level counsellor working with severe trauma

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