Kate Baggs

Kate is a Senior Clinical Psychologist with 27 years experience working as a Clinician specialising in Adult Mental Health. Kate also spent close to 30 years working as a lecturer in Clinical Psychology and supervisor of interns at the University of Sydney and has also lectured at UNSW in Undergraduate Psychology and UTS in Social Issues and Systems. She also headed up the Allied health Team at The Sydney Clinic which is a 44 bed Private Psychiatric Hospital. At ACAP Kate now works as an Educator and Supervises intern psychologists enrolled in the College’s Psychologists Registration Supervision Program. She is also a Senior Professional Advisor at ACAP. Kate has a private practice in the inner west of Sydney, where she sees adults with a history of trauma.

She brings to her roles a passion for education and a love of experiential learning. Kate has been involved with teaching and training for most of her adult life and arrived at ACAP with a determination to pass on her wisdom and knowledge to the next generation of dedicated counsellors and Psychologists.

Kate explains: “At ACAP students are given a unique opportunity to learn in an exciting interactive environment. At ACAP the students are encouraged to find their own voice as a counsellor and/or psychologist. Unlike the sandstone Universities ACAP is integrative and actively encourages differences in theoretical and practical opinion.”