Dr. Lourens Human

My name is Lourens Human and I am 63 years of age. I have a wife and three children, and we have two dogs, Cinnamon and Pepper.

I worked as a Counselling Psychologist in South Africa from 1996 to 2017. In 2017, my family and I migrated to Australia where I have been working as a Counsellor from 2018 to 2026.

South Africa:
I completed my BA (Hons)(Psychology)(1991), MA (Counselling Psychology)(1996), MA (Industrial Psychology) (2003) and my PhD (Psychology)(2005) in South Africa. I registered as a Counselling Psychologist in 1996 with the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA).

From 1996 to 2017, I worked on a full-time basis at the University of Pretoria in the Department of Psychology. Here I fulfilled various roles. As a lecturer I was responsible for teaching psychology at an undergraduate level. On a postgraduate psychology level, I was the Coordinator of the MA (Counselling Psychology) program, and also responsible for teaching career psychology, counselling psychology and sport psychology. I was also a practical training facilitator and clinical supervisor for postgraduate counselling psychology students. As I researcher I also conducted research in the areas of career psychology, counselling psychology and sport psychology, and was a research supervisor for MA (Counselling Psychology) and PhD (Psychology) students.

Besides working as a lecturer and researcher at the University of Pretoria, I was a practitioner with a part-time practice focussing on career psychology, counselling psychology and sport psychology.

Australia:
As mentioned previously, my family and I migrated to Australia in 2017. In 2018, I registered with the Australian Counselling Association (ACA) as a Counsellor (Level 4). From 2018 to 2019, I was involved in delivering therapeutic counselling services at a retreat in Victoria to people who had experienced severe trauma (e.g., Veterans). Since 2020, I have been facilitating therapeutic counselling with people who have had traumatic experiences due to being victims of a crime in South Australia, such as homicides, sexual assault, domestic violence and child sexual abuse.