Dr Lauren Stavropoulos

Lauren is a Clinical Psychologist practising at the Schema Therapy Institute Australia in Melbourne. Lauren has worked within the public health system, most recently at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and in the Perinatal Mental Health Service at the Royal Hospital for Women in Sydney. She has completed clinical roles in inpatient and outpatient settings after completing a Master of Clinical Psychology and PhD at UNSW.

Lauren also has a strong research background, completing her PhD in Clinical Psychology at UNSW, Sydney. This research involved investigating mental imagery and developing and trialing a novel application of imagery rescripting to treat generalised anxiety disorder. Since then, Lauren worked as Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Black Dog Institute trialing a novel imagery-based intervention to address suicidal imagery. Lauren currently works as research thesis supervisor at UTS, Sydney and is an Associate Editor for 'Clinical Psychologist', an academic journal of the Australian Psychological Society.

Lauren has particular interest in tailoring imagery-based and schema therapy techniques to treat a range of mental health presentations, and in improving treatment outcomes for mood, anxiety, and other complex mental health difficulties and women's mental health concerns. Lauren is passionate about improving mental health through evidence-based research and clinical practice.