Dr Haline Schendan
Dr Haline Schendan
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DPsych, Ph.D., MSc., B.A., HCPC, CPsychol, AFBPsS, FMBPsS, FHEA, FPsyS
DPsych, Ph.D., MSc., B.A., HCPC, CPsychol, AFBPsS, FMBPsS, FHEA, FPsyS
Memory Neuroscientist & Chartered Counselling Psychologist Providing Integrative Psychotherapy
Memory Neuroscientist & Chartered Counselling Psychologist Providing Integrative Psychotherapy
Specialist in Trauma, Dissociation, Attachment & Neurodiversity-Informed Therapy & Psychological Assessment
Specialist in Trauma, Dissociation, Attachment & Neurodiversity-Informed Therapy & Psychological Assessment
I am a psychologist, neuroscientist, and integrative psychotherapist based in London, UK and originally from the USA, working internationally online. I hold a Ph.D. in Cognitive Science & Neurosciences (University of California, San Diego) and Doctorate in Counselling Psychology (City St George's, University of London). I have over 25 years of experience in academic research, teaching, and interdisciplinary work in brain imaging, psychology and mental health. I am registered as a Counselling Psychologist with the Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC) and am a Chartered Consultant Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS). My counselling psychology work combines neuroscience (especially memory, learning, and brain plasticity) with therapeutic approaches — I emphasize memory-reconsolidation, attachment theory, and trauma-informed and dissociation-informed approaches. I am an Honorary Associate Professor at City St George's, University of London in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience. I offer therapy and psychological assessment (primarily online internationally) and provide supervision, consultation, and training. My research focuses on the links between attachment, trauma, dissociation and neurodiversity, especially sensitive temperament, and their influences on mental health and wellbeing. I also collaborate internationally on research and clinical practice.
My passion is supporting you to fulfill the potential of all aspects of who you are
Integrative Transformative Neuropsychotherapist
Integrative
Integrative
Integrative psychotherapy works and is recommended as best practice, especially for resolving trauma, dissociation & attachment related difficulties. Broadly speaking, I integrate humanistic person-centered experiential approaches, psychodynamic approaches, cognitive behavioral therapy, and memory reconsolidation therapies.
Neuropsychotherapy
Neuropsychotherapy
Neuropsychotherapy is an integrative approach that combines neuroscience and psychotherapeutic theory and practice. It views a person in terms of their brain within their body in particular environments throughout life and how this has made them who they are. Neuroscience provides a roadmap for how to re-wire the brain to fulfill the potential of all aspects of the person as a whole. Neuropsychotherapy emphasizes the science of psychotherapy, neuroscience and psychology to inform therapeutic approaches tailored to you as an individual.
Chartered Psychologist
Consultant Chartered Psychologist
Consultant Chartered Psychologist
I am a Consultant Chartered Psychologist & Associate Fellow registered with the British Psychological Society (BPS) and Counselling Psychologist registered with The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
I bring to my work over 30 years of expertise as a psychologist, including counselling psychology, applied psychology, experimental psychology, psychometrics and neuropsychology. I have worked at world-leading universities, research centers and medical communities, including the UK National Health Service (NHS). I welcome opportunities to apply this expertise to transform people, business, government, education and society, as well as mental health research and application, public understanding and policy.
I also provide specialist psychological assessment and consultation to support other clinicians working with dissociation, trauma, and attachment-related difficulties.
Theory & Research
Theory & Research
My research has included neuroplasticity, learning, memory, vision, cognition, personality, temperament, creativity, lie detection and mental health and wellbeing.
Neuroscientist
Theory & Neurobiology
Theory & Neurobiology
My research led to the development of the multiple-state interactive theory of the brain dynamics for cognition and memory (Schendan, 2019). Research has investigated the brain basis of semantic memory, implicit learning and memory, episodic memory, object, face, and spatial cognition, categorization, decision-making, mental imagery, mental simulation for grounded (embodied) cognition, vision and action, and creativity in healthy people across the life span and patients with brain dysfunction. To accomplish this, the research program has integrated across several domains, especially in the visual modality: perception and action, object cognition, perceptual constancy, long-term memory (emphasizing representations for knowledge about categories and concepts, episodic recognition, and implicit memory), learning, categorization, mental imagery, spatial cognition, creativity, attention, decision-making, and analogical reasoning. Research has also tested a grounded (embodied) cognition framework to explain these phenomena.
Human Brain Imaging
Human Brain Imaging
Methods have included sophisticated cognitive and behavioral tests combined with event-related potentials (ERPs), which time cortical processing, and electroencephalography (EEG), which reveals cortical oscillations and can be used for neurofeedback therapy, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and lesion studies (brain stimulation and neuropsychology involving patients with brain dysfunction), which reveal the functional neuroanatomy, and computational modeling, which has facilitated theory development.
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