Kate Murray, PhD

National Trainer (CE-CERT), Clinical Trainer (LEAF), Trainer-in-Training (ARC)

Attachment, Regulation, and Competency (ARC), Components for Enhancing Clinician Experience And Reducing Trauma (CE-CERT),

Kate Murray, PhD, is a licensed psychologist and an experienced trainer involved with the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN), offering trainings in trauma-informed care for resource parents, trainees and mental health professionals, and other multidisciplinary professionals. Dr. Murray directly provides and also trains clinicians in the early intervention model Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up (ABC), as well as the complex trauma framework Attachment, Regulation, and Competency (ARC). She is a certified trainer in the Components for Enhancing Clinician Experience and Reducing Trauma (CE-CERT) model for secondary traumatic stress, and is also experienced in providing evidence-based interventions to traumatized children and families, such as Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT). Dr. Murray has served as the Director of the Post Adoption Support Services at the Center for Child & Family Health since 2014, overseeing the provision of mental health services to adoptive families. She has published several research articles and other publications related to child welfare, adoption, clinical assessment, and the evaluation of trauma-informed interventions. Dr. Murray received her doctorate in school psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.