Catherine has a passion for helping people to achieve wellbeing by harnessing the brain’s healing potential. She is a clinical psychologist who has been registered since 2009, and has been an EMDR Consultant since 2018. She has a PhD in clinical psychology and neuropsychology from the University of Queensland, a Masters degree in functional neuroimaging from Dartmouth College (USA) and a BA in philosophy and neuroscience from the University of Toronto.

Prior to becoming a therapist, Catherine conducted brain research using fMRI, and working with people with brain injury and disease to understand the neurological systems that support empathy and social cognition and behaviour. She has worked clinically in Australia and the UK in drug and alcohol, mental health rehabilitation and community mental health.

Catherine’s current private practice work focuses on treating complex trauma and dissociation in adults. She supervises for the Psychology Board of Australia and the EMDR Association of Australia, offers trauma informed trainings for mental health practitioners, and provides wellbeing workshops to the general public.

Therapeutically, Catherine works integratively, and draws on therapies whose mechanisms are consistent with brain science. She uses EMDR Therapy, Polyvagal Theory, Coherence Therapy, Schema Therapy, Compassion Focused Therapy, Mindfulness Based Therapies and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in her treatments. She also draws on models of dissociation including the Model of Structural Dissociation, Internal Family Systems Therapy and Ego State Therapy.