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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Online harm is the issue. Cybertrauma is the impact.
I named it, defined it, and built the clinical framework for recognising it. Read the definition and the method →
Two assessments built on the five pillars of the CYBERTRAUMA™ Recognition System, one for you as a practitioner, one for your organisation. Both are genuinely free and give you your result on screen straight away.
For practitioners
Twenty questions, under five minutes. A score across five areas and a plain read on where the gaps are. Most people score lower than they expect on recording and escalation, and that is the point. It was never taught.
Take the Recognition Readiness ScorecardFor organisations
Ten questions, under five minutes. A named profile, from Reactive Response through to Evidence-Ready, showing how your setting would handle a disclosure today, and what an inspector would find if they asked tomorrow.
Take the Organisation assessmentFrom a single unforgettable keynote to a year-round safeguarding partnership, every engagement is grounded in almost two decades of clinical work and doctoral research nobody else in the world has done.
Conference keynotes, whole-staff INSET and leadership briefings on CYBERTRAUMA™, online harms, AI and children's digital lives. Complex science, made human.
Digital safeguarding audits, policy review and organisational partnerships. Your team stops guessing: audit, training, protocols, and on-call access when an incident lands.
Three routes for professionals: the 90-minute Essentials, the self-paced FLEXI course, and the live 10-month Certificate, for therapists, DSLs, social workers, teachers and police. Start where you are.
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.
Not a practitioner? The Level Up Club is the parent-facing option, live monthly sessions with Catherine, plain-English answers, £6.99 a month. Join the Level Up Club →
Catherine's TEDx talk on what technology is really doing to us, and why we need to talk about it differently.
Explore speakingPractical, evidence-based and unflinching. Latest: Managing Your Gaming and Social Media Habits (BPS Ask The Expert series), audiobook out now on Audible.
"Always several steps ahead of the curve… someone I would turn to for advice without reservation."
"Catherine is the real deal when it comes to understanding human behaviour online."