Dariusz Lukawski
Supervisor, Counselling Psychologist and Psychotherapist
MA in Counselling Psychology specialising in Psychotherapy and Crisis Intervention
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I am a Supervision Lead, Senior Associate Counselling Psychologist at Altum Health and Advanced Level Certified Schema Therapist with 18 years of experience in the mental health field. I am a member of the Psychotherapy Division of the British Psychological Society (BPS), The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), and the International Society of Schema Therapy (ISST).
Schema Therapy: an integrative model, drawing on CBT, psychodynamic, gestalt, constructivism, and attachment models. Sometimes, I combine Schema Therapy with Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR), Mentalisation Based Treatment (MBT), Trauma Treatment and Mindfulness. But what is more important, I consider it a privilege to be part of my clients' journey of self-discovery, during which they see their needs clearly and grow to become the people they really want to be.
My interest in counselling and psychotherapy started when I wrote my MTh thesis on 'Pastoral Care and the Postmodern Self' at Cardiff University in 1999. After that, I studied psychology and received a Master's degree in Psychology, specialising in Psychotherapy and Crisis Intervention. My research focused on 'Basic hope and perseverance in psychotherapy'. I have had the advantage of working in a psychiatric hospital with a multidisciplinary team specialising in addiction, co-addiction, depression, anxiety, trauma, and personality disorders. Working there, I developed my individual and group psychotherapy skills. I also learnt how to use the interpersonal approach to psychotherapy while combining it with CBT, Schema Therapy, Motivational Interviewing and Trauma Treatment. The integrative approach to psychotherapy, where every individual's needs are respected, still is my preferred mode of working. I began my private practice in 2007. Soon after that, I joined a team of skilful professionals with whom I had a common interest in Schema Therapy. Since then, I have been developing in Schema Therapy, Trauma Treatment, Supervision and Neuropsychoanalysis.