About Kitty Thatcher
I have had the privilege of having lived in many places all over the world and hearing the stories of many people who have crossed my path, both in and out of the therapy room.
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I believe in the power of community, of witnessing, and of accompanying each other through challenging moments when we are facing big questions about how we want to live our lives.
I began my working life as a high school teacher, teaching History and English as Second Language Teacher in Australia and France. My interest in the effects of trauma on learning however soon encouraged me to take up the books again to study psychological trauma in a Graduate program at the University of Chester in England.
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Later I became much more interested in how our lives are affected by systemic and relational forces, and began seriously considering psychology as an alternative career path. When I moved to Santiago, Chile I had the opportunity to study again while awaiting my work visa and so enrolled in a Masters of Clinical Psychology with a focus on children and adolescents, in the family therapy stream.​ While there, I worked with children and young people and their families at the Centro de Atención Psicologica (CAPs) at the Universidad de Chile.
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In 2020, I moved back to Australia, where I worked at the Non Government Organisation Headspace with young people and their families in various roles as a mental health worker, psychologist, and family therapist, in Yaegl, Gumbaynggirr and Bundjalung country in the Northern rivers of NSW then later in Gadigal country (Sydney).
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After moving to Sydney in 2022 I continued to be drawn to places where relationships and systems are considered when understanding people's struggles and worked at Relationships Australia where I was privileged to provide couple and family therapy both online and in person to people from around the Sydney region (Gadigal region).
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I am currently residing in Santiago, Chile, the land of the poets and great towering mountains and work in a private practice for young people and adults seeking individual, couple, and or family therapy. Now you know mine, I hope our paths cross and I get the chance to know your story.
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Qualifications
Bachelors Degree in Spanish and Latin American Studies and History, University of Sydney
Graduate Diploma in Secondary Education, History and English as a Second Language, Macquarie University
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Bachelors Degree in Science (Psychology) at Swinburne University, Melbourne Australia.
Post Graduate Certificate in Psychological Trauma at the University of Chester, United Kingdom.
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Graduate Diploma of Psychology Advanced at Monash University.
Masters of Clinical Psychology specialising in Children and Adolescents with a focus on systemic/family therapy from the Universidad de Chile in Santiago, Chile.
Active member of the Colegio de Psicologos y Psciologas de Chile and of the Australian Psychological Society.​ Registered as a psychologist with AHPRA (Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency): (no) PSY0002588467
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