Kim Golding – CBE, Consultant Clinical Psychologist and certified DDP therapist, consultant and trainer.

Kim Golding is a Clinical Psychologist living in Worcestershire, UK. Kim worked with children and families within the NHS for thirty years, specialising in working with parents or carers to develop their parenting skills tailored to the particular needs of the children they are caring for. She was involved in the setting up and evaluation of the Integrated Service for Looked After and Adopted Children, providing support for foster, adoptive and residential parents, schools and the range of professionals around the children growing up in care or in adoptive families. Kim now has her own business providing training, consultation and supervision.

Kim currently sits on the board of DDP Connects UK and is involved in accrediting and training other professionals in the DDP model, developed by Dan Hughes. Kim co-authored: ‘Healing Relational Trauma with Attachment-Focused Interventions Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy with Children and Families’ with Dan Hughes and Julie Hudson, published December 2018.

Kim has developed two DDP-informed programmes. ‘The Nurturing Attachments Training Resource’; and ‘Foundations for Attachment Training Resource’. She has also authored and co-authored a range of books including ‘Everyday Parenting with Love and security’; and most recently: ‘Working with Relational Trauma in Schools’ and ‘A Tiny Spark of Hope, healing childhood trauma in adulthood.’

Kim S. Golding, CBE

Consultant Clinical Psychologist
and certified DDP therapist, consultant and trainer