Dr Don Rawson

Lecturer for Professional Doctorate in Counselling Psychology

Department of Psychology

Overview

At City, Dr Rawson is a:

• Personal Tutor for Professional Doctorate in Counselling Psychology
• Research Supervisor for Professional Doctorate in Counselling Psychology and PhD
• Facilitator for the Personal and Professional Development component.

He has a special interest in developing integrative methodologies for research training.

Dr Rawson trained in Counselling Psychology at City University. He went on to become lecturer and later Programme Director. He is now a part-time lecturer and tutor.

Dr Rawson is also a Chartered Counselling Psychologist and a registered medical herbalist. He runs a busy private practice in Stoke Mandeville, Buckinghamshire, where he is able to combine psychological counselling with herbs. He has consultancy work in oncology counselling at the Harley Street Clinic, London. He is also Research Director for the Eyetracker research company.

Research interests

• Eyetracking methodology
  
• Visual cognition in consumer actions and decision making
  
• The integration of mind-body energetics in psychological counselling
  
• The use of herbal nerviness (herbs that affect nerve related problems) to aid emotional healing in counselling.
  
• Clients later utilization of emerging psychological themes from their counselling experience.

Dr Rawson has an extensive research background. He has conducted numerous research and development studies for the health and welfare fields across Europe.

Dr Rawson specializes in teaching research methodology. He sees his role as demystifying research and empowering practitioners to create forms of research that are consistent with the aims of therapeutic work. His publications include reports from a number of major funded research studies. He has written about counselling, health education, inter-professional work and research methodology.

Qualifications/training

• PhD in Social Psychology
• Post MSc Diploma in Counselling Psychology (City University, London)
  
• MSc (with distinction) Counselling Psychology (City University, London)
  
• BSc (Econ) Hons Social Psychology
  
• Dip. Herb

External roles

• Counselling Psychologist and Medical Herbalist in Private Practice, Stoke Mandeville, Buckinghamshire
• Research Director, Eyetracker.co.uk
• Counselling Psychology Consultancy, The Harley Street Clinic, London W1 (specialising in oncology counselling)
• C.Psychol (Chartered Counselling Psychologist)
• MBACP (British Association of Counselling & Psychotherapy)
• URHP (Unified Register of Herbal Practitioners).