Imi Lo is a psychotherapist and consultant working with emotionally and intellectually intense people.

With three master's degrees in Mental Health (University of Queensland), Buddhist Studies (University of Hong Kong), and Global Cultures (King's College London), Imi brings an interdisciplinary perspective to her work. She has over fifteen years of clinical experience as a psychotherapist and art therapist, including work with Médecins Sans Frontières and the UK National Health Service.

She has published three books with Hachette: Emotional Sensitivity and Intensity (2018, translated into seven languages), The Gift of Intensity (2021), and The Gift of Empathy (2025).

Her training includes art therapy, philosophical counselling, Jungian psychology, mentalization-based treatment, EMDR, Schema Therapy, mindfulness-based and trauma-informed modalities, and she works integratively with psychodynamic, philosophical, and creative methods.  Her academic research focuses on the philosophy of emotion and death, drawing on Hellenistic and East Asian philosophical sources.

Areas of Expertise

 

Coaching Gifted Adults

Philosophical Consulting

Emotional Intensity and Sensitivity

Excitabilities and Giftedness

Existential and Mid-life Crisis

Cross-cultural Experiences

Credentials

Master of Mental Health (Distinction)

Master of Buddhist Studies (Distinction)

Certified Logic-based Therapist (Philosophical Counselling)

Certificate in Clinical Supervision

Certificate in Jungian Studies

Certificate: Using the Enneagram in Psychological Assessment and Practice

Portfolio

 

What I believe in

 

Intense people are truth-tellers, game-changers, and fierce lovers of the world.