Professor Katharine Rimes

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Professor Katharine Rimes

Professor in Clinical Psychology

School of Psychology (Faculty of Health)

Qualifications

BA (Hons) in Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.
D.Phil., University of Oxford.
D.Clin.Psy. Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London.
Postgraduate certificate in Mindfulness Based Approaches, University of Bangor.

Professional membership

  • Clinical Psychologist and Health Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) 
  • Cognitive Behaviour Therapist, accredited by the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) 
  • Fellow of the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) 
  • Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow of British Psychological Society (BPS) 

Teaching

Staff serving as external examiners

DClinPsy, Salomons Institute of Applied Psychology, Canterbury Christchurch University. 

Research

Research interests

Psychological intervention development and evaluation including nature-based interventions; CBT; compassion-focused approaches; photography or other arts-based interventions; interventions incorporating mindfulness or spirituality. 
Transdiagnostic factors in mental health, especially self- or other-related processes e.g. beliefs and behaviours relating the self/others including self-esteem, self-compassion; self-criticism; perfectionism; fear of negative evaluation; no-self or non-self (anattā); transpersonal psychological processes. 
Impact of stigma and prejudice on self- and other-related processing, including in relation to sex, gender, sexual orientation and appearance.
Psychological impact of sexism, abuse and violence against women and girls.
LGBTQ+ mental health. 
Environmental and climate psychology. 

Personal

Links

Bluesky: 
https://bsky.app/profile/krimes.bsky.social