Ian Lawson M.D, M.A, CSAT, LMHCA is a physician with an MA in clinical mental health counseling. He provides care to individuals struggling with trauma, family of origin issues, substance use disorder and other addictions. He also specializes in compulsive sexual behavior and pornography. He has an interest in helping professionals in their personal and professional struggles with addictions, burnout, imposter syndrome and depersonalization.
He has been trained as a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist (CSAT) through the International Institute of Trauma and Addiction Professionals (IITAP). He uses the trauma-based approach to addiction and sexually compulsive behavior and pornography developed by Dr. Patrick Carnes. He has an interest in assisting individual and group clients recovering from addictive sexual behavior Towards the end of a long career in medicine he made a decision to provide care in a more personal and empathic manner as a counselor.
Using a biopsychospiritual approach he believes in creating a pathway to health, healing and recovery.
Ian has experienced personal recovery since 2019 and understands the difficulty and complexity of traveling the difficult path to achieving a life of integrity and authenticity. He has a deep understanding of how to help with navigating this journey of healing and renewal. Healing can be achieved despite the past devastation of broken relationships or career loss that accompany a life in addiction.
At Fourth Dimension Counseling & Coaching we are experienced licensed therapists and counselors providing therapy services for people with a variety of emotional trauma experiences and conditions from betrayal trauma and betrayed partners to sex addiction, porn addiction, alcoholism, and drug addiction recovery or substance abuse to anxiety, depression, mens or womens issues as well as family, couple, relationship, partner and intimacy issues. Let us know how we can help, we’re here for you when you are ready to make a change.
Our therapists, counselors and coaches are licensed, certified and experienced in helping individuals and couple’s dealing with serious trauma and emotional challenges including:
Based out of Issaquah, Washington and we provide services throughout Washington, Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Arizona, California, Colorado, New York, Florida, North Carolina and Hawaii.
We currently provide our counseling and coaching services online through a secure private connection. We have licensed therapists and counselors in Washington, Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Arizona, California, Colorado, New York and Hawaii New York, Florida, North Carolina and Hawaii. We are experienced at providing quality, effective counseling, therapy and coaching solutions via remote video conferencing for individual, group and couple counseling and coaching.
At Fourth Dimension Counseling and Coaching we provide a variety of counseling and coaching options including individual and group therapy and counseling for both men and women as well as couples counseling and coaching services.