Dr Kathy Adcock

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (D Clin Psy), Foundation Certificate in Systemic Practice, BSc. (Hons) Psychology

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, including 3rd wave approaches (DBT, Mindfulness), Systemic therapy, Accredited Video Interaction Guidance (VIG) practitioner, Specialist approaches to attachment and trauma, Parenting support

In person: Children and young people up to 21 years old, parents/carers and families.

Online: 13 – 21 years old, and parent/carers.

Finchley Central, Online

All major private medical insurers

Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)

I have worked in the NHS and third sectors since 2005, training across the lifespan, and later specialising in child and adolescent mental health. I have worked in NHS CAMHS in community teams, primary and secondary schools, and in specialist teams for children who are care-experienced or who have experienced adversity. This included leading a multiagency service in Children’s Services for children and adolescents at risk of becoming Looked After.

In 2017, I founded the award winning youth mental health charity In Your Corner. In Your Corner is an emotional wellbeing service for adolescents and young adults who are not well served by clinic-based talking therapies. The service offers groups which combine non-contact boxing with clinical psychology, delivered in community settings. I was CEO and Clinical Lead of the organisation until 2025.

I am a Churchill Fellow, and also work as an independent researcher. My research interests are in developing, delivering and evaluating embodied and movement-based interventions for complex trauma.

I am a warm, collaborative person who prioritises creating relational safety. I identify as LGBTQ+ and bring an intersectional lens to my work, where I consider culture and social inequalities as important contexts to experiences of distress.

I appreciate it can feel a bit nerve-wracking meeting a psychologist, and I will meet you with warmth and curiosity. Initially, I will ask to hear a little bit from you about the difficulties you’re experiencing, as well as your view about what “helpful help” might look like. I’ll also answer any questions you have about the process of working together.

We’ll think together to develop an initial understanding of the difficulties and this will lead to a number of options for next steps. We’ll agree a plan and depending on what this involves, later sessions may include work with parents/carers alone, parent-child together, or a young person alone. Most interventions involve some combination different session types.

I work with a broad range of difficulties such as anxiety, low mood, stress, self-esteem issues, relational difficulties, emotion regulation difficulties and adverse life experiences. I have a special interest in supporting families to foster parent/carer-child attachments.

I’m a former amateur boxer and a boxing coach, so I love to box, and to go running by the river. I play the piano, and really enjoy going to see live jazz and classical performances. I also love getting myself a nice coffee in a café and chilling with a novel.

Adcock, K. (2025) An Embodied Approach to Working with Trauma using Sport and Movement. Churchill Fellowship Report

Adcock, K. (2019) In your corner: Using psychologically informed boxing groups to reach young people. Context, 161, 14-18.