DR RUPA KATARIA, CHARTERED CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST

Dr Rupa Kataria has over 20 years clinical experience of working in various community mental health teams and inpatient psychiatric wards with clients who have required complex psychological assessment and treatment. Dr Rupa Kataria qualified as a clinical psychologist in 2012, holding more than a decade of post qualification experience and expertise. Dr Rupa Kataria started her private practice clinic in 2015.

Currently, Dr Rupa Kataria works part time as a Principal Clinical Psychologist leading a psychology department in the NHS at a community mental health service specialising in providing complex care to clients. In addition, through ongoing private clinic, Dr Rupa Kataria has extensive experience of providing private healthcare to clients through a variety of clinics and the leading health care insurance providers. 

With specialist skills in assessment, formulation, and treatment of mental health presentations with varied severity and complexity in adult mental health, Dr Rupa Kataria can understand complex situations and suggest appropriate interventions that fit with the client and their needs. The client is thought about holistically to consider the impact and influence of systems and contexts a person is a part of and how these may affect their difficulties.

Dr Rupa Kataria’s personal and clinical skills allow her to be flexible and adapt psychological approaches according to the client’s needs and the treatment plan. Working with the client’s strengths is fundamental in empowering clients to take an active role in their treatment. To help clients connect with their strengths, Dr Rupa Kataria believes in working collaboratively in therapy.

Being a British Indian woman and a clinical psychologist, Dr Rupa Kataria is well placed to understand clients who identify as Asian or Indian and may want to speak to someone from the same or similar background to them. Sessions can be delivered in Gujarati upon request.

Therapy becomes a place where clients can connect with their goals and hopes for change, be empowered to think about self-help, feel safe to discuss difficulties and move forward towards their goals. Assisting clients to develop higher levels of self-compassion, self-care, resilience, and psychological well-being is key. Through working within multi-disciplinary teams in varied services Dr Rupa Kataria is well equipped to carefully think about onward referrals to other professionals and treatment pathways that may suitable for clients.

Dr Rupa Kataria has vast experience of working in multiple mental health teams in differing contexts, such as community and inpatient psychiatric wards. Having worked as Psychological Lead and as a Senior Clinical Psychologist Dr Rupa Kataria has expertise in leading a psychology team, developing services, providing clinical and professional supervision to staff, consultation to colleagues and providing training and teaching to staff teams. With experiences of organising and facilitating multiple team away days within services, training and presentations, Dr Rupa Kataria has held a key role in the development of teams, service development and delivery within the NHS.

Dr Rupa Kataria is also a Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Mentor on the Clinical Psychology Doctorate courses at University College London (UCL) and Surrey University. Alongside this, Dr Kataria is also involved in the interview process for the Clinical Psychology Doctorate course at Surrey University.