Online Psychotherapies in the Context of COVID-19: Critical and Cultural Perspectives – Keith Tudor, Julia Ioane, & Catherine Knibbs

Human Behaviour Technologist. Psychotherapist and Researcher

Cath is a Clinical Doctoral Researcher, Online Harms and Cybertrauma Consultant, Public Speaker, Author of 6 books (5 to date with Routledge), an Educator and TEDx Speaker. She is a Child/Adult Trauma Psychotherapist in private practice. She works with global and national organisations regarding child sexual abuse material and how to prevent cybertrauma burnout in those roles. She works with global organisations consulting on Mental health and Immersive Technologies (MHVR) and the harms that can occur in the new digital spaces (XRSI). She writes about and works with Cybertrauma, which is any trauma that occurs through an internet-ready device or medium. She also educates therapists and practitioners via her company name Privacy4 about Data protection/privacy/cybersecurity issues in relation to their practice. She disrupts and advocates for children’s rights, privacy, and online digital explorations. Catherine is also the mental health advisor for Gamers Beat Cancer charity.

She uses gaming in therapeutic situations, coaching, trauma psychotherapy and for getting the best from yourself. She has been using biofeedback/tech and gaming to elicit Post Traumatic Growth, healing and flow for over a decade.

Her books include Cybertrauma: the Darker side of the Internet; Children, Technology and Healthy Development, Children and Sexual-Based Online Harms, Cybertrauma and Online Harms, and Data Protection and Cybersecurity for Practitioners and the newest one forms part of the BPS Ask the expert series.

Folasāitu Dr Julia Ioane is a Samoan matai with strong genealogical connections to the villages of Leauva’a and Fasito’outa in Samoa. She is associate professor in psychology at Massey University and a registered clinical psychologist. She has over 10 years of experience working with children and young people involved in care and protection; and youth justice matters. She has also adapted western models of psychology including therapeutic models and contextualising practice to the worldviews of the indigenous clients that she continues to serve. Dr Ioane has been working in Samoa for their Judiciary to introduce psychological frameworks of practice and contextualising these within a Samoan and collective worldview often consisting of a person-centred approach that includes aiga, family, village and community.

Keith Tudor is Professor of Psychotherapy at Auckland University of Technology, Aotearoa New Zealand, where he is currently engaged in establishing a Centre for Research in the Psychological Therapies. He is the author of over 500 publications, including a book on Group Counselling (Sage, 1999) which he is in the process of revising for publication next year. Since immigrating to Aotearoa New Zealand in 2009, he has been involved in different forms of bicultural engagement, of which facilitating this workshop is the latest manifestation.