Kim Hurst PhD

Kim Hurst is a Senior Psychologist who specialises in child and adolescent eating disorders. She has been delivering Maudsley Family Based Treatment (FBT) and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Enhanced (CBT-e) for over eight years and is a credentialed FBT therapist that provides training, supervision and consultation to clinicians across Queensland. Kim has worked across a range of treatment settings including psychiatric and medical inpatient units and outpatient services

She is also passionate about early intervention programs and has delivered workshops to school children, guidance officers and teachers on positive body image. Kim is on the executive committee (treasurer) for the Australian & New Zealand Academy for Eating Disorders (ANZAED) and was a member of the Queensland State-Wide Eating Disorders Advisory Group. Kim has coordinated a national eating disorder conference and smaller workshop events. Kim has a solid record of presenting at several local, national and international eating disorder conferences and has several published works within the field. Kim has recently submitted her PhD (Griffith University) which examined augmented FBT, focusing on perfectionism.