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Meet Lee Crothers
Founder of CAT Training Australia, teaching relationally, creatively, and with serious skin in the game.
30+ yrs
in mental
health
in mental
health
Founder of CAT Training Australia, teaching relationally, creatively, and with serious skin in the game.
CAT Training Australia provides an accessible training pathway in Cognitive Analytic Therapy for practitioners across Australia and nearby time zones.
The program supports those working in a range of settings (private practice, schools, community and health services) and with people at all ages and stages of life. It is Australia’s first nationally accessible training program.
Lee was among the first practitioners to train in CAT in Australia, and is now one of the few accredited to train others.
Founder Lee Crothers is a Cognitive Analytic Therapy practitioner with over 30 years’ experience in mental health practice and psychotherapy. She is an ANZACAT accredited CAT supervisor and trainer, and on the board of both ICATA and ANZACAT.
Lee is passionate about using this effective practice to help as wide a range of people as possible. She uses Cognitive Analytic Therapy not only as a therapy model in individual work, but also within supervision and consultation — where its relational approach enables reflection on patterns within teams, services and professional relationships.
She does this alongside her work as co-director and therapist at In Dialogue Practice, a private practice grounded in relational approaches.
So, she has some serious skin in this game.
Taking a serious and effective practice and teaching it in a creative way is what CAT Training Australia is all about.
Lee teaches CAT the way CAT itself is practised: collaboratively, relationally, and with the scaffolding people need to learn safely and confidently. Pre-recorded lectures you can pause and revisit; live seminars where ideas are explored in dialogue with the readings, your existing strengths, and other therapy models. A more reflective, more accessible learning experience.
Pause, rewind, revisit at your own pace.
Readings, workbooks, references, on paper or screen.
Real therapy scenarios, demonstrated.
Deep conversation with the people learning alongside you.
Check what’s landed; revisit what hasn’t.
People come to CAT Training Australia for different reasons, but everything works towards your desired goals, no matter where you start.
Some have a passing interest, and might download a free resource. Others want to go a bit deeper into a training module or two. Still others know they want CAT Skills training or full practitioner training, and jump straight in.
See all training pathways →Lee runs bespoke trainings, and also helps teams run their own CAT training inside their service.
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