Dr Laura Vivarelli

Laura is an experienced Adult Consultant Psychiatrist with over twenty years of psychiatric practice. She qualified as a medical doctor in her home country, Italy, in 2001 at the University of Pisa. After completion of her postgraduate training in Italy, she was approved on the General Medical Council (GMC) Specialist Register to practice general adult psychiatry in the UK in 2006. In 2006, she also qualified as Cognitive-Behavioural Psychotherapist with the School of Cognitive Psychotherapy in Rome, Italy. She has worked as an NHS Consultant Psychiatrist since 2006 and has acquired vast experience of treating a broad range of mental health disorders ranging from anxiety, depression, bipolar affective disorder, psychosis, PTSD, dissociative and personality disorders.

Dr Vivarelli has been a Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists since 2012, and she is especially interested in the treatment of anxiety and affective disorders, as well as mental health difficulties originating from the exposure to traumatic events, including PTSD, complex PTSD and acute stress reaction, as well as adjustment disorders. She became an EMDR therapist in 2010 and has been practicing EMDR since.