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Specialises in

• Behaviour Therapy

• CBT with Exposure and Response Prevention (CBT with ERP)

• Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)

Bupa specialist

• Child and Adolescent Mental Health services

Offers

• Face-to-face consultations
• Video and telephone consultations

About me

Dr Kathryn Rocha MAHons DClinPsych

Kathryn is an experienced (20 years) clinical psychologist who specialises in working with children, young people and their families. Kathryn completed her undergraduate Psychology degree in Edinburgh and then went on to complete her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology in Newcastle. She has previously worked within a Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS) setting assessing and supporting families with emotional, relational and neurodevelopmental issues. Later she worked as an NHS clinical psychologist bringing mental health services for children to schools, both primary and secondary. This involved working directly with families, groups of children and supporting teachers both with individual pupils and more general mental health training.

Kathryn has a particular interest in parenting and working with parents to help them understand and manage children's behaviours and emotions in ways that benefit the whole family. Kathryn mainly uses systemic and cognitive behavioural (CBT) and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) approaches with families, and always works collaboratively alongside her clients. She has run and had specialist training in Webster Stratton parenting groups for parents of children ages 3 - 10 years. Kathryn is also developing her mindfulness practice and is trained to deliver the Paws B curriculum to Primary School age children.

Areas of interest

Emotional difficulties in children - internalising struggles - anxiety and phobias, emotion based school avoidance, low mood, obsessive compulsive disorder; externalising struggles - anger, aggression; understanding behavioural difficulties in children; family struggles; relational difficulties; parenting struggles; managing divorce; use of mindfulness approaches; working with children adolescents and young adults; screening for and supporting neurodivergent children and young people