Katherine Gudgeon, Psychologist
Katherine will provide you with a non-judgemental, kind, and empathetic listening ear. She is passionate about helping others and it would be a privilege for her to help support you on your journey to achieving a more fulfilling life. Katherine sees her role as helping you to better understand and get to know yourself and in doing so building confidence and self-compassion. Katherine is ready to help you improve your mental health and takes a strengths-based, client centred approach in her role as a psychologist. She works at Gymea Lily every Tuesday.
Katherine has a Graduate Diploma in Psychology (Charles Sturt University, 2009), a 4th year Graduate Diploma of Psychology via the School Counsellor Scholarship program, (University of Wollongong, 2017), a Bachelor of Education (University of Sydney) and Masters in Educational Leadership (Charles Sturt University, 2010). She is a Registered Psychologist with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) and is a member of the Australian Psychological Society (APS).
Katherine has completed training in several evidence-based approaches such as: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Solution Focused Therapy (SFT), Self-Compassion based Mindfulness, Treating Trauma Master Series and has some training in Schema Therapy.
Katherine is passionate about working with adults. Katherine has worked as a School Counsellor for five years and this role involved, amongst many other things, assisting staff to navigate critical incidents and often managing incidents across a number of schools. Katherine has also worked in the educational sector as an English teacher for over thirty years and in a leadership role as an Assistant English Co-ordinator for ten years.
She has worked with a wide array of presentations, including depression, anxiety, self-esteem issues, confidence, grief and loss, trauma, anger management, school bullying, relationship difficulties, parenting and family problems, workplace stress/bullying, conflict resolution and personality disorders. She has a keen interest in working with people experiencing relationship difficulties.
