Catherine Knibbs

CATHERINE KNIBBS – Human Behaviour Technologist & Cybertrauma Speaker

Consultant Child/Adult Psychotherapist, Online Harm Specialist and Researcher (Cybertrauma), Author of 7 books and Trainer.

She specialises in educating and supporting adults in understanding child development and behaviour in a world of technology.

Catherine has authored 7 books so far about online life and development of children (and adults) and the pickles we can get into. She has completed her PhD, a TEDx talk, gained millions of views on her social media content, won several national and international awards for her work in cyber and spoken to thousands of parents and professionals through her trainings, clinical work and public speaking.

She knows all too well (as she is a mum who raised children) that tech time tantrums in families can cost the deep connection held with children, and how professionals often feel overwhelmed in being able to support these tech laden families too. Her mission is to change the way we understand children living in a world of technology and to give parents and professionals back their power (or power-up!!)

She is working on another book and training right now and some more free online content, all about tech smart parenting. Which is also the name of her latest book that was published in 2025.

CATHERINE KNIBBS SPEAKING TOPICS 

Catherine is a leading expert and speaker in the field of cybertrauma and is working with companies and organisations alike to help them better understand human behaviour in the digital world and how we can better manage it and how we understand we people do what they do and the impact it is having on peoples mental health.

Her speaking topics include –

• Human behaviours online
• Cybertrauma/Online Harm and the impact of this on the human
• Pornography use in Children, young people, and adults
• Gaming- Good, bad or indifferent?
• Technology to hack your health and achieve higher performance
• Cyberbullying what is it?
• Safeguarding around digital tech
• Mental Health and Technology
• Social Media the impact and influence- are we really addicted?
• The human algorithm- why we make the errors online
• Online professional conduct
• Child Sexual Abuse Material Online

For CyberSecurity Talks/Events

There is a possibility (due to known rising figures of access to and distribution of) that an employee or member of staff has or is accessing images or videos of child sexual abuse (CSAM) using a work computer or system (either in the workplace, at home or on/offsite). When thinking of roles such as those involved in back-ups, repairs, renewing, restoring devices or even system audits this leaves those professionals in these roles open to accessing these files or links which may not be labelled in a way that prepares the viewer for the contents. Is your company versed in the law around what to do and do you have systems in place to support staff who may bear witness to these images and videos and what may be happening for them in cybertrauma? What policies and procedures do you have for working with this issue in cyber?

For School talks

As KCSIE and Working Together 2023 suggest supporting children in school around technology is paramount as part of these policies. Are you prepared with a safeguarding approach to dealing with images of pornography (war material/12,15 and 18+ rated material) that are accessed on the way in/out or on your school property? As a school you may have a phone ban in place, however, we know in today’s age that many children can circumnavigate rules and may access this kind of material on both phones and technology within the school setting. Are you versed in the impact of this kind of material on children and how you can deal with it as a school? Do you have policies and procedures around how to manage the impact of viewing adult/war/illegal material and the cybertrauma that may follow?