PsyMed is a psychology research laboratory dedicated to health promotion, counselling, and research. Its interventions support individuals, couples, families, and groups experiencing distress, which may manifest in relationships or through the body. Counselling, training, and supervision are primarily offered to healthcare professionals—including doctors, nurses, and psychologists—who care for people facing these challenges, and can also be extended to other organisational settings.
PsyMed’s research explores experiences of birth, death, and illness within medical and hospital care, alongside the experiences of those who provide that care. Its guiding purpose is to care for those who care and those who receive care. This commitment encompasses the entire care environment, including the communities in which health is shaped and sustained.
PsyMed’s work is grounded in a psychosocial perspective, placing personal experience at the heart of both research and care. Drawing on systemic-constructivist and phenomenological approaches, it moves beyond the traditional distinction between mind and body, understanding health and illness within the relational contexts in which they emerge, are sustained, and can change.