Dr Kerryn Armstrong is a specialist psychiatrist committed to providing holistic care to individuals and their families, with the aim of healing and enhancing lives. Her particular interests include anxiety, obsessive-compulsive and trauma-related disorders, depressive and bipolar disorders, eating disorders and personality disorders.
She has special expertise in cognitive-behaviour therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, brainworking recursive therapy, mindfulness-based stress reduction therapy and psychoneuro-immunology neuromodulation, which she uses in combination with psychopharmacology to promote personal recovery in the fullest sense.
University of Cape Town
University of Cape Town
Colleges of Medicine of South Africa
Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers (BLS-HCP Course) 2011
Advanced Neonatal Life Support (Neonatal Resuscitation Program) 2011
Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support 2012
Lentegeur Child and Adolescent Service 3 Day Teaching Programme 2014
Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk Course 2014
Lentegeur therapeutic unit psychotherapy study group 2014
SASOP’s Biological Psychiatry Congress 2015
Autism Navigator for Primary Care Course 2015 (Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)
Mindfullness-Based Stress Reduction Course 2015
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Course 2016
AfCNP Congress 2016
WPA Congress 2016
5th SAAMS Congress 2017
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Course 2017
SASOP’s Biological Psychiatry Congress 2017
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Mindfullness Course 2018
Personality Disorders Course 2018
World Maternal Mental Health Day Event 2018
Adult ADHD Seminar 2018
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy: Specialized Evidence Based Strategies Course 2018
Demystifying Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Course 2018
Rational Emotive and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Primary Practicum 2019
5th Annual Psychiatry Focus Meeting 2019
Practice-based Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Course 2019
Valkenberg Depression Symposium 2019
Professional Minds "Tapping into our Teens and Tweens" Conference 2019
Child and Adolescent Ethics Workshop 2019
SASOP/PsychMg Workshop 2019
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia Workshop, Biological Psychiatry Congress 2019
The Self in Practice, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Course 2019
Lundbeck Focus Day 2019
Sexual Health Masterclass 2019
BrainWorking Recursive Therapy Course 2020
Rational Emotive and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Advanced Practicum 2020.
Bellavista Trauma Informed Practice Course 2020
BrainWorking Recursive Therapy Advanced Course 2020
DBT Distress Tolerance and Emotional Regulation Tools for Clients Course 2021
Applied Psychoneuro-Immunology, Expanding Consciousness Course 2021
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Course 2021
Maternal Mental Health Symposium 2021
2nd Southern Africa Multidisciplinary ADHD Congress 2021
Full Neuromodulation Accreditation Course 2021
Maternal Mental Health Africa Congress 2021
Food, Mood and Cognitive Function Course 2021
Treatment Resistant Depression Series 2022
Transgender Healthcare Symposium 2022
OCD Symposium 2022
Perinatal Psychopharmacology 2022
BrainWorking Recursive Therapy in Young Adults Workshop 2022
DNA Life Accreditation Course 2022
Alternative Treatments and Psychedelics Webinar 2023
Essence Congress 2023
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Masterclass Series 2023
Working Therapeutically with Dreams and Altered States of Consciousness Course 2023
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) Training Course 2023