Laura in media

National World - The Mental Health Crisis We Need to Talk More About — And the Breakthrough Therapy That Could Change Everything

July 2025 - By Laura McDonald

London World - London-Born businesswoman Receives High Honour at Irish Business Awards

July 2025 - By Laura McDonald

Grazia Magazine - BWRT Neurophysical Enhancement Training
May 2021

Woman and Home - Why Can't I Sleep?
08 April 2021 - Featuring Laura McDonald

MSN.com - Why Can't I Sleep?
​08 April 2021 - Featuring Laura McDonald

The Sharon Fitzmaurice Podcast - Finding My Voice
08 April 2021 - Featuring Laura McDonald

Metro UK: What to do if you’re at risk of a mental breakdown
03 April 2021 - Featuring Laura McDonald

Rogue: ‘I was spending hours on my phone with no purpose’: Going cold turkey on a social media detox
23 February, 2021 - Featuring Laura McDonald

Connaught Telegraph, Ireland: Castlebar therapist contributed to Awaken Your Wellbeing Book
22 December 2020 - featuring Laura McDonald

Metro UK: Could people have PTSD as a result of the coronavirus pandemic? 14 November 2020 - featuring Laura McDonald

Connaught Telegraph, Ireland: Mayo therapist uses pioneering therapy to help tackle mental health ticking time bomb
23 September 2020 - featuring Laura McDonald

New Statesman Healthcare: Brain working recursive therapy: The ‘spectacular’ treatment providing instant relief for mental health problems 
01 January 2020

Top Sante: Try BrainWorking Recursive Therapy and Worry Less!
04 January 2019

Daily Mail: New way to wipe out lifelong phobias - in just one session: How brain therapy that targets flight or fight response helped conquer Alisa's fear of birds
22 August 2017

Irish Times: Writing in Private, Panicking in Public 
08 May 2017 Featuring client of Laura McDonald

NHS Health Research Authority: Research Study - BWRT For Non Complex Trauma  - for more info please email me or the contact on the page itself
17 March 2017

Luton Today: BWRT therapy is a new weapon against anxiety
15 February 2017

Wellbeing Magazine: Phobias and Fears Cured Fast With BrainWorking! 
29 December 2015

​BWRT has a featured chapter in the academic book The Bright Side of Shame (published by Springer) and was the subject of a 2018 Ph.D. awarded from Lincoln University in the UK. It is currrently (as at May 2022) the subject of a clinical trial being funded and conducted by the University of Bergen, Norway: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34696777/