About me
Dr Laura Cole is a Clinical Psychologist practicing in London and Hertfordshire. Laura is qualified to doctoral level and registered with the Health and Care Professionals Council (HCPC).
She has over 15 years experience in the NHS services within Central & North West London NHS Foundation Trust and Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust. She has led NHS teams and developed and grown a private practice.
Training, qualifications & experience
Laura is trained in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), third-wave CBT, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT), and Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET), a trauma-focused intervention for those looking to make sense of multiple difficult life experiences.
Laura has extensive experience within highly-specialist child and family services, paediatric teams, as well as in Adult services. She has extensive experience working with adolescents and young adults struggling with their identity development and/or who have experienced significant interpersonal trauma.
She has worked with people who are navigating complex systems including those in legal, court and care systems. Her research interests promote social justice and youth participation work. She works primarily from a systemic and psychoanalytic orientation and is trained in Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR).
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school Registered / Accredited
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
The HCPC are an independent, UK-wide health regulator. They set standards of professional training, performance and conduct for 16 professions.
They keep a register of health professionals who meet their standards, and they take action if registered health professionals fall below those standards. They were created by a piece of legislation called the Health Professions Order 2001.
Registration means that a health professional meets national standards for their professional training, performance and conduct.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
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Further information
An initial conversation can help understand areas you may feel stuck and your hopes for therapy. Get in touch if you would like to discuss the possibility of working together and we can arrange a free 20 minute phone consultation, which can help guide the next step in the process.
