Dr Kate Reid

About

Kate

Kate enjoys assisting others to build their compassionate selves and to overcome problems with anxiety, mood problems and disassociation. She specialises in supporting people to recover from trauma and to work through the challenges of managing intense moods and behaviours and dissociative parts. Kate sees clients of all ages and specialises in working with adolescents and young adults.

Style of work

Key skills

Empathic and validating connection with clients
Many years’ experience
Lived neurodivergent experience and neurodivergent family experience
Kind, compassionate and respectful

Approach

Kate mostly uses Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) and Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) with a strong trauma and attachment focus
Kate focuses on the formulation of how each client’s problem developed and is maintained, and links interventions to this
Compassion and mindfulness skills are integral to Kate's therapy

Background

Prior experience

Kate has run private practices in the Euroa area for 15 years and was recently Senior Clinical Psychologist at Goulburn Valley Area Mental Health Service. She is a consultant with the Exploring Together Team and developed an intervention with them for early primary aged children and their parents which is used across Australia.

Kate is a consultant with the University of Melbourne Going Rural Health team facilitating clinical placements across regional Victoria.

Kate provided expert input into the Australia-wide ATAPS Child Mental Health Training developed by the Australian Psychological Society and she trains and supervises community clinicians across Victoria.

Qualifications

Doctor of Psychology (Clinical Child, Adolescent & Family Psychology), LaTrobe University
Bachelor of Arts (Honours) (Psychology), University of Melbourne

Memberships

Fellow of Clinical College, Australian Psychological Society (APS) (FCCLP)
Member of Shepparton Psychologists group
Member of Euroa and Shepparton Mental Health Professionals Network (MHPN)
Member of APS Rural Psychology Interest Group

Publications

Early intervention for preschoolers with behaviour problems: Preliminary findings for the Exploring Together Preschool Program, Kate Reid, Lyn Littlefield, Sabine W Hammond, Advances in Mental Health April 2008, Vol. 7, No. 1: 15–29
Read the publication

Registration

AHPRA registration number: PSY0001122325
Provider number: 2785646X