Katie
"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny."
- Albert Ellis
Katie Dowler is an experienced and compassionate registered General Psychologist based in Bathurst, NSW. With broad experience supporting clients through a wide range of mental health challenges, Katie is committed to providing her clients with the support and guidance they need to achieve their goals.
With a warm and empathetic approach to therapy, Katie creates a welcoming and non-judgmental environment where clients feel comfortable exploring their thoughts and feelings. She is skilled in using evidence-based treatments to help clients overcome a wide range of issues including anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship issues.
To become a general psychologist, Katie was required to complete an internship requiring over 3000 hours of supervised practice in addition to rigorous demonstrations of abilities to conduct formal psychological testing, various therapy engagement techniques and counselling skills. This internship has been completed in full, here at Distinct Directions. Katie is currently exploring undertaking further study, completing a Master of Neuroscience at the University of New England.
Katie has a passion for forensic psychology and abnormal psychology. Her interest in forensics comes from completing her 4th year thesis on the Dark Triad traits, researching how childhood maltreatment can result in the expression of these traits. This strong interest in the criminal mind leads Katie to continuously build her forensic mental health skills and understanding.
Katie has experience working with clients to explore a wide array of mental health impacts such as anxiety and depression, eating disorders, trauma, intellectual disability, brain injury, school adjustments issues, emotional regulation issues, ADHD and autism.
Katie also has experience completing diagnostic assessments, behavioural assessments, cognitive assessments and guardianship assessments. She has delivered counselling and intervention in an individual context, providing psycho education, utilizing core counselling skills, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Motivational Interviewing techniques. She is always excited to learn, practice and gain experience in other treatment modalities, under the supervision of her experienced clinical team at Distinct Directions.
Katie has always lived and worked in Rural New South Wales and is passionate about providing much needed mental health services in our community, particularly to our most vulnerable community members.
Conference papers:
Dye, J., Cavallaro, L., Dowler, K., Finos, A., Elmir, R., Morrow, A., & Coote, S. (2019). Psychopathic traits as a fast life strategy: Some outcomes. In Australian Society for Human Behaviour and Evolution: 2nd Annual Meeting. Sydney, Australia.