Inese Lapsiņa

Inese Lapsiņa, M.Phil./Mg. Psych., is a Lecturer at the University of Latvia, Faculty of Education, Psychology and Art, within the Department of Psychology. She is a certified psychologist and supervisor specialising in clinical and health psychology and consultative psychology.

Her research and teaching span several interconnected domains:

• Clinical and health psychology
• Developmental psychology
• Early multimodal interventions for childhood behavioural difficulties
• Trauma and violence psychology
• Eating disorders and maladaptive eating behaviour
• Stress, coping, self-compassion and perfectionism

She leads the clinical psychology internship series (Clinical Practices I–IV) for master’s students, integrating research methods, opinion-writing skills and counselling competencies. At bachelor level she delivers a course on Academic and Professional Ethics in Psychology, fostering ethical thinking and practice.

Her recent scholarly output centres on evaluating the effectiveness of the modified STOP 4-7 early intervention programme, demonstrating significant improvements in child behaviour problems and parenting practices. This work underlines her commitment to evidence-based, family-focused psychological interventions.

Currently she supervises bachelor’s and master’s theses as well as supervisory internships in clinical and health psychology, guiding the next generation of Latvian psychologists.