Kate Meredith is a qualified and registered Family and Systemic Psychotherapist, based in South Wales, near Cardiff. She is completing a Professional Doctorate in Systemic Practice at the University of Bedfordshire. Kate is registered with the Association for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice (AFT), and with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP).
Kate works for the NHS in an inpatient Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service in South Wales. She works with adolescents and their families to assess and treat a range of difficulties and presentations, including eating disorders, developmental trauma, low mood, depression, anxiety, emotional dysregulation, psychosis, self-harm and suicidal ideation. Using Family and Systemic Psychotherapy theory and therapeutic approaches, she assesses the impact of these difficulties on family relationships, and explores the resources within families that can be employed to bolster family resilience and improve mental health, supporting families as they work together to help their child towards recovery.
Kate worked for 15 years as a Speech and Language Therapist, working with adults with stroke, traumatic brain injuries and progressive neurological conditions including Parkinson's Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, dementia and brain tumours. Her training and experience in these areas enables her to understand the impact that difficulties with communication, cognition and swallowing can have, as well as the many other ways in which people can be affected by these illnesses. Kate's dual-training enables her to address the far-ranging impact of these illnesses on relationships with partners, children, wider family and friends.
Kate also has a small independent practice near Cardiff. Kate can work with individuals, couples and families with a range of presentations including eating disorders, mental health difficulties, difficulties in couple relationships, the challenges involved with parenting, stroke, traumatic brain injury and progressive neurological conditions.
Kate completed her BSc in Speech Sciences at University College London, and her MSc in Family Therapy at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. When she worked as a Speech and Language Therapist, she was Communications Lead for ABICEN, the clinical excellence network for Speech and Language Therapists working in Acquired Brain Injury, for many years. Kate published Psychotherapy and Aphasia: Interventions for Emotional Wellbeing and Relationships (Meredith, Kate. H. and Yeates, Giles. N. 2020), which she co-edited with a colleague and contributed chapters for. She presented at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association International Convention in November 2022, encouraging clinicians to use family and systemic approaches in their work with people with brain injuries and communication difficulties. She has been interviewed on the Aphasia Access podcast about her dual interest in systemic therapy and communication disorders: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/episode-109-learning-from-family-and-systemic/id1166457367?i=1000622248044.
Kate's doctoral studies focus on the impact of eating disorders on family relationships, and the relationships of parents with their family, social and professional circles.
Kate works for the NHS in an inpatient Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service in South Wales. She works with adolescents and their families to assess and treat a range of difficulties and presentations, including eating disorders, developmental trauma, low mood, depression, anxiety, emotional dysregulation, psychosis, self-harm and suicidal ideation. Using Family and Systemic Psychotherapy theory and therapeutic approaches, she assesses the impact of these difficulties on family relationships, and explores the resources within families that can be employed to bolster family resilience and improve mental health, supporting families as they work together to help their child towards recovery.
Kate worked for 15 years as a Speech and Language Therapist, working with adults with stroke, traumatic brain injuries and progressive neurological conditions including Parkinson's Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, dementia and brain tumours. Her training and experience in these areas enables her to understand the impact that difficulties with communication, cognition and swallowing can have, as well as the many other ways in which people can be affected by these illnesses. Kate's dual-training enables her to address the far-ranging impact of these illnesses on relationships with partners, children, wider family and friends.
Kate also has a small independent practice near Cardiff. Kate can work with individuals, couples and families with a range of presentations including eating disorders, mental health difficulties, difficulties in couple relationships, the challenges involved with parenting, stroke, traumatic brain injury and progressive neurological conditions.
Kate completed her BSc in Speech Sciences at University College London, and her MSc in Family Therapy at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. When she worked as a Speech and Language Therapist, she was Communications Lead for ABICEN, the clinical excellence network for Speech and Language Therapists working in Acquired Brain Injury, for many years. Kate published Psychotherapy and Aphasia: Interventions for Emotional Wellbeing and Relationships (Meredith, Kate. H. and Yeates, Giles. N. 2020), which she co-edited with a colleague and contributed chapters for. She presented at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association International Convention in November 2022, encouraging clinicians to use family and systemic approaches in their work with people with brain injuries and communication difficulties. She has been interviewed on the Aphasia Access podcast about her dual interest in systemic therapy and communication disorders: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/episode-109-learning-from-family-and-systemic/id1166457367?i=1000622248044.
Kate's doctoral studies focus on the impact of eating disorders on family relationships, and the relationships of parents with their family, social and professional circles.
