Kat Berlouis
Principal Clinical Psychologist
Kat is a Principal Clinical Psychologist in the National Cleft Surgical Service for Scotland (NCSSS). Kat qualified with a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at The University of Edinburgh in 2020, and worked in the Plastic Surgery and Burns Unit before joining NCSSS. Kat enjoys being able to meet and work with people of all ages born with a cleft, and to promote psychological wellbeing to patients and family members.
Based in Glasgow, she travels with her team to clinics across Scotland, ensuring all patients have access to their psychosocial support. Kat provides highly specialist psychological assessment, formulation and intervention to patients within the Cleft Service. The Cleft Psychology team also provide support in multidisciplinary clinics and throughout any surgical treatment. She works closely with their Cleft Team to ensure support is available should a patient or family member require it. She is currently the Chair of the Cleft Psychology Clinical Excellence Network (CEN), a group representing Cleft Clinical Psychologists across the UK.