
Dr Katie Chung
Clinical Psychologist
Katie is a warm, empathic, and genuine psychologist who provides clients with a safe therapeutic space in which to express themselves and feel understood. She works collaboratively and holistically with clients to make sense of their difficulties and to understand what keeps them stuck in distressing and unhelpful patterns, with the goal of empowering clients to make changes to establish more meaningful, satisfying lives.
Based on the individual client’s needs, Katie implements a range of therapeutic approaches including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Schema Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. In order to best support clients, Katie strikes a balance between providing practical strategies for clients to manage their daily difficulties and facilitating deeper work to explore the childhood and family origins of clients’ unhelpful patterns of behaviour and thinking.Katie helps with a range of issues, including
Social anxiety, panic attacks, generalised worries, and phobias
Low mood and depression
Emotion regulation difficulties and anger
Low self-worth
Perfectionism and procrastination
Obsessive compulsive disorder
Post-traumatic stress
Personality disorders
Interpersonal and relationship difficulties
Academic and workplace stress
General dissatisfaction with life
Katie holds a Master of Clinical Psychology, and prior to that, completed a PhD that investigated the cognitive processes that underlie vulnerability to recurrent depression. She is a member of the Australian Psychological Society and the Australian Clinical Psychology Association.
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RWA has welcomed a new psychologist to our fold. Dr Katie Chung is a psychologist working with teens and adults. Here is Katie talking a bit about the work she does. Welcome Katie!
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