Nihara Krause

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About Nihara Krause

Dr Nihara Krause MSc PsychD C.Psychol C.Sci AFBPsS Dr Krause is a multi award winning Consultant Clinical Psychologist and lecturer in teenage and adult mental health. Having worked as an NHS Consultant, she now runs her own private practice. She has a particular interest in eating disorders, OCD, clinical perfectionism, ways to build resilience in young people, and in the psychological traits of high achievers. Her last NHS post was as a consultant for eating disorders, setting up a specialist out-patient and day service. She has been a visiting lecturer for the Clinical Psychology doctorate programme at Surrey University. She is a member of the expert group on policy for the BPS and spoken at the All Party Parliamentary Group on behalf of the Society. Nihara offers talks and lectures at various universities, and has been a keynote speaker at multiple conferences both nationally and Internationally to a variety of audiences. She has provided expert input into the enquiry on the Internet and Mental Health at the House of Lords, the Children's Society enquiry on screen time and social media and has been the mentor for mental health for the Youth Health Parliament. She has been involved in the Empathy Project for Facebook. Dr Krause is very active with the media and appears regularly as an expert on SKY, C4 news and on ‘This Morning' and has been on several radio shows. She has been involved in productions with the BBC, Dragonfly TV, and Minnow. She is the CEO and founder of stem4, teenage mental health charity and is the creator of the MINDYOUR5 well-being programme for schools. Nihara has developed 'Calm Harm' a mobile phone app to help young people manage the urge to self-harm currently with over a million and a quarter downloads in over 171 countries,'Clear Fear' an app to help children and young people manage symptoms of anxiety,'Combined Minds' an app for parents and friends and is currently creating Head Ed, a series of educational videos for secondary schools. Nihara was awarded the Mayor of London Award 2014, the 'Point of Light Award' in 2015, the Positive Practice Award 2017 and Breakthrough in Mental Health 2018. In 2019 Nihara received the British Citizen Award for outstanding contribution to mental health