Dr Haline Schendan

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.

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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.

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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. 

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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. 

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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. 

I welcome consultation & collaboration opportunities