“It is both an honour and a privilege to have been recommended to work with so many of you and I understand that this message may be disappointing or frustrating to read.
In 2025, I faced some unexpected health issues because of the impacts of my cancer treatments almost ten years ago. While I remain cancer-free, this led to my need for more barefoot time to nurture my body that is not up to the physical demands of full-time work at this stage. For this reason, I will be undertaking additional training in trauma studies in 2026 and will continue part-time work through teaching at the University of Sydney, facilitating on sexual wellbeing and relationship intimacy within a Trauma Recovery Program, and providing supervision and consultation support to other psychosexual therapists.
The program I began creating in 2017 has now been trademarked and Courageous Connections: Managing Sexual Function During Trauma Recovery® will officially launch in 2026. I am beyond excited to see this project come to fruition to reach more people in their trauma recovery journey for either sexual or non-sexual trauma. Through this project my hope is to support a greater reach of survivors, their loved ones as well as other health care providers, as there is such a tremendous need in this space. Please know that you are not alone, and I am leading my limited energies to create more support options in the future. I deeply love my vocation and very much look forward to returning to private client appointments in the future. I will make the re-opening announcement through this website.” Kate Dempsey
Accredited Clinical Psychosexual Therapist, Clinical Sexuality Educator, Certified IFS Therapist, IFS Approved Clinical Consultant, Counselling Supervisor