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

About me

Wealth and breadth of experience

Dr Rupa Kataria has over 20 years clinical experience. This has included working in various community mental health teams and inpatient psychiatric wards with clients who have required complex psychological assessment and treatment. Dr Rupa Kataria qualified as a clinical psychologist in 2013, holding more than a decade of post qualification experience and expertise. Dr Rupa Kataria started her private practice clinic in 2015.

Personal and professional values

Dr Rupa Kataria's personal and clinical skills allow her to be flexible and adapt psychological approaches according to the client's needs and the treatment plan. Working with the client's strengths is fundamental in empowering clients to take an active role in their treatment. To help clients connect with their strengths, Dr Rupa Kataria believes in working collaboratively in therapy.

Being a British Indian woman and a clinical psychologist, Dr Rupa Kataria is well placed to understand clients who identify as Asian or Indian and may want to speak to someone from the same, or similar background to them. Dr Rupa Kataria is passionate about working on client's unique experiences and ideas. Examples include, identity, self, community, cultural and family influences, relationships, gender, intergenerational patterns and family trauma. Sessions can be delivered in Gujarati upon request.

Therapy as collaborative process

For Dr Rupa Kataria, therapy collaboratively becomes a place where clients can connect with their goals and hopes for change, be empowered to think about self-help, feel safe to discuss difficulties and move forward towards their goals. Assisting clients to develop higher levels of self-compassion, self-care, resilience, and psychological well-being is key.

Specialist clinical skills and knowledge

Dr Rupa Kataria has specialist skills in assessment, formulation, and treatment of mental health presentations with varied severity and complexity in adult mental health. Therefore, Dr Rupa Kataria is highly skilled in understanding complex situations and suggest appropriate interventions that fit with the client and their needs. The client is thought about holistically to consider the impact and influence of systems and contexts a person is a part of and how these may affect their difficulties. Through having worked within multi-disciplinary teams in varied services Dr Rupa Kataria is well equipped to carefully think about onward referrals to other professionals and treatment pathways that may suitable for clients.

Areas of interest

Interest and specialism: adult mental health.

A range of evidence based and tailor-made services are available to individuals, couples, families, students, professionals and organisations to support your journey forward. Services provided are professional, confidential, and discrete.

In clinical sessions, safety is balanced with confidentiality. If there is ever a concern about your safety, or that of others then we may together need to discuss sharing information about you with significant others in your life and create a staying safe plan.