Dr Sonja Falck
Senior Lecturer in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Sonja is a UKCP Accredited Psychotherapist and Supervisor and BACP Senior Accredited. She joined UEL in April 2016, where she teaches on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and provides clinical and research supervision to trainee counsellors. In her role as Clinical Director for the BSc Counselling programme she oversees the clinical requirements of the training and liaises between the university and organisations who provide placements for trainees. ORCiD: 0000-0002-3041-7574
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University of East London
Stratford Campus
Water Lane
London, E15 4LZ
United Kingdom
E15 4LZ - s.falck@uel.ac.uk +44208234744
Sonja is a South African who has long been settled in London. She graduated with a BSocSc(Hons) in Clinical Psychology from the University of Cape Town, then completed an MA in Psychoanalysis (with distinction) at Middlesex University. She completed her coaching training, at EMCC (European Mentoring and Coaching Council) Senior Practitioner level, through the Tavistock. Her DPsych – Doctorate in Psychotherapy by Professional Studies – was gained through Metanoia Institute and Middlesex University. She used interviews, textual analysis, and a Constructivist Grounded Theory methodology for her final dissertation, which was titled “The Child, the Emperor, and the Fabulous Clothes: Constructing a theory of how interpersonal difficulty in gifted adults arises, is perpetuated, and can be overcome”.
What underpins all of Sonja’s work is fascination with relationships of all kinds (parenting, siblings, romantic, workplace, etc), and how these play out in pairs, in groups, and in whole organisations, and her particular research and practice specialism is with gifted/high-IQ/high ability individuals. She has presented at the SENG (Supporting the Emotional Needs of the Gifted) conference in the USA and has given several presentations for British Mensa.
Overview
Most recently Sonja has completed mixed methods, and qualitative, research projects on the psychosocial implications of living and working with giftedness/high ability/very high IQ. This area continues to be her research focus, with a large-scale quantitative project currently being worked on.
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Research
Publications
- Attachment Theory
- Relational Psychoanalysis
- Systemic-psychodynamic coaching and organisational consultancy
- Improving personal and workplace relationships
- The interpersonal relating of gifted/high IQ/high ability adults, developmentally and in personal and work relationships.
Interests
- Attachment Theory
- Relational Psychoanalysis
- Systemic-psychodynamic coaching and organisational consultancy
- Improving personal and workplace relationships
- The interpersonal relating of gifted/high IQ/high ability adults, developmentally and in personal and work relationships.