Lee Hawker

Lee Hawker is a registered Member of The British Psychological Society. He entered the field of addictions after developing a range of harm minimization services in the UK aimed at curbing transmission rates of HIV and Hepatitis in the 1990’s. Lee commenced his training as a psychologist in 2001 reading Behavioural Science at Anglia Ruskin University in Essex before undertaking postgraduate training with the Open University. He went on to specialize in addiction at the University of Bath in the UK. A keen academic and researcher, Lee has worked in a broad range of national and international therapeutic settings. He has delivered high quality substance misuse treatment and trauma therapy for both charitable organizations and private facilities including The Priory UK and The Cabin Chiang Mai.

An advocate of the clinical applications of trauma therapy and group therapy in the treatment of addiction, Lee has worked in both public and private practice to increase the availability of disorder specific therapies internationally. He specializes in clinical assessment and policy design and implementation in his work at The Cabin. He currently manages The Cabin’s Behavioral Science Unit whose primary remit is to screen for differential diagnoses and to generate technical clinical reporting for all clients entering treatment. The Behavioural Science Unit also generates strategic policy and provides guidance to therapists, allied healthcare workers and departmental managers. Lee’s clinical interests include the etiology and causal attribution of traumatic experience in addiction disorders, personality disorders and the forensic psychopathology of clinical populations accessing treatment at The Cabin Chiang Mai.