When online harm reaches the children you work with, you need more than guidance documents. You need the person who wrote the theory.

I'm Dr Catherine Knibbs — Consultant Child & Adult Trauma Psychotherapist, cyberpsychologist, and developer of CYBERTRAUMA™ theory. I help organisations and professionals understand what online harm does to humans, and what to do about it.

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PhD — children & online violence/gore
7 published books
TEDx speaker
Journal editor, Frontiers
National Cyber Awards winner 2025
Top 20 Most Inspiring Women in Cyber 2026
Dr Catherine Knibbs speaking on stage

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BBC BBC Radio 5 Live LBC HuffPost Vodafone The British Psychological Society Internet Matters INHOPE Marie Collins Foundation All Tech Is Human The Social Switch Project Sway.ly
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Four ways in

From a single unforgettable keynote to a year-round safeguarding partnership — every engagement is grounded in 15+ years of clinical work and doctoral research nobody else in the world has done.

Keynotes & Speaking

Conference keynotes, whole-staff INSET and leadership briefings on CYBERTRAUMA™, online harms, AI and children's digital lives. Complex science, made human.

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CYBERTRAUMA™ Consultancy

Digital safeguarding audits, policy review and organisational partnerships. Your team stops guessing: audit, training, protocols, and on-call access when an incident lands.

Audits & partnerships — by application
How it works

Training & Certification

The Certificate Course in CYBERTRAUMA™ (10 months, live) and the self-paced FLEXI course — for therapists, DSLs, social workers and police.

FLEXI £499 · Certificate £1,980
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CYBERTRAUMA™ Supervision & Drop In Clinic

Ongoing clinical supervision and case consultation for professionals carrying complex online-harm cases — think clearly about live cases, make defensible decisions, and stay well doing work that takes a toll.

Monthly · Individual & group
Supervision & clinic
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Bodies, brains and technology

Catherine's TEDx talk on what technology is really doing to us — and why we need to talk about it differently.

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Author

Seven books. A PhD. One mission.

Practical, evidence-based and unflinching. Latest: Managing Your Gaming and Social Media Habits (BPS Ask The Expert series) — audiobook out now on Audible.

Tech-Smart Parenting (Penguin) Managing Your Gaming & Social Media Habits Online Harms & CYBERTRAUMA™ Children & Sexual-Based Online Harms Children, Technology & Healthy Development Cybersecurity & Data Protection for Practitioners All books →

"Always several steps ahead of the curve… someone I would turn to for advice without reservation."

— Graham Music (PhD), Consultant Psychotherapist, Tavistock Centre, London

"Catherine is the real deal when it comes to understanding human behaviour online."

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Enquiries answered personally, usually within two working days.

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