Kalpita Kunde

Chartered Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Division of Clinical Psychology UK Chair, British Psychological Society - HCPC registered

Kalpita is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist with over 28 years’ experience, working in the NHS as a Consultant Clinical Psychologist. She has led and headed several specialist psychology services across her career life span. Kalpita has worked in secondary multidisciplinary services, primary care, specialist psychology tertiary care and staff employee services. Kalpita has clinically coordinated, supported and led bespoke tailored Dialectical Behaviour Therapy services across directorates and specialisms from Adult Mental Health, Learning Disability & Autism, Forensic, MHSOP and CAMHS. She has developed several teaching /training programmes from moral injury , compassionate care in the workplace, distress and burnout and race related prejudices during the COVID pandemic years designed for leaders and managers as part of the regional whole systems approach. Additionally, Kalpita has extensive experience in clinical supervision, training and teaching medical psychiatry and clinical psychology doctorate students on managing and formulating diagnostic and risk presentations for suicide and prevention, dual diagnosis, complex PTSD on the affective and psychosis pathways, and for other long standing mental health conditions including neuro-divergent presentations. Kalpita also has worked as a clinical supervisor for palliative care nurses to help support and conceptualise end of life care and support options for families and carers.

Kalpita is currently the UK Chair for the Division of Clinical Psychology with The British Psychological Society and is passionate about influencing leaders using a relational trauma informed approach in order to create psychologically safe working cultures and systems for the workforce. Kalpita strongly believes in embedding the values and lessons learned from hardships and lived experiences.

Training & Certifications:

• ACAT certified CAT practitioner

• BIDBT certified DBT practitioner

• Post Critical Incident Training ( and reflective practice training)

• ILM Level 5 Coach and Mentor certified with North East and Yorkshire Leadership Academy

• Supervisors Workshops and refresher training

• EMDR trained

• ADOS-II Training

• ADI- R Training

• ADHD / DIVA training

• CFT and ACT trained

• HCPC Registered

• Enhanced DBS