Katharine Cook Psychologist

Katharine Cook is a registered Child and Family Psychologist who specialises in the areas of attachment, separation, trauma, anxiety, grief, child behaviour, adolescent issues, perinatal depression and parenting issues. Over the past 15 years, Katharine has worked internationally in a Paediatric AIDS Hospice in South Africa and in Family Assessment services in the UK, providing specialist assessment in Family Law and Child Protection matters. In Sydney, Katharine worked in a drug and alcohol rehabilitation unit (Phoebe House), a trauma counselling service (Physical Abuse and Neglect of Children Counselling Service, Western Sydney Community Health) and in statutory child protection (Department of Community Services, Eastern Sydney Community Services Centre). Katharine is now the Principal Psychologist at the Family Psychology Practice, based in the Northern Beaches of Sydney where she provides individual and family therapy, victims of crime counselling, disaster and critical incident psychological responses and consults to NGOs and government departments in the areas of child protection, trauma, domestic violence and attachment.