Every Kalda course is built and reviewed by clinicians who are part of the LGBTQIA+ community. This post is a brief introduction to how the team is structured and who does what. For the full bios, names, pronouns, and credentials, see our about page.
How is the clinical team structured?
The team has three layers:
Clinical leadership. A small group of senior clinicians who set the clinical standard, review course content, and hold ultimate responsibility for the safety and quality of what we publish. They include qualified clinical psychologists, psychotherapists, and senior counsellors.
Course authors. For each Kalda course, a clinical author leads the content design. The author is always qualified in the relevant modality (typically CBT, ACT, DBT, or a combination), and is always part of the LGBTQIA+ community. They write the script, design the exercises, and remain involved through filming.
Course hosts. The on-camera presenters of each course. Hosts are queer clinicians or community members with depth in the specific topic. Every host’s name, pronouns, credentials, and bio are published on the relevant course page.
What qualifications do Kalda clinicians hold?
Every clinician on the team holds professional qualifications appropriate to their role, and is registered with the relevant UK professional body:
- Clinical psychologists: typically hold a doctorate (DClinPsy or equivalent) and are registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and the British Psychological Society (BPS)
- Psychotherapists and counsellors: qualified and registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), or equivalent bodies
- Mindfulness teachers: trained in evidence-based traditions (often Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction or Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy)
- Coaches and community contributors: trained and accredited within their specific disciplines
Credentials are visible on individual course pages alongside each host’s bio.
Why clinicians who are also queer?
The single most consistent feedback we receive from Kaldans is that being taught by someone who shares the relevant lived experience changes what the work feels like.
There is a real clinical case for this beyond the comfort factor. Therapeutic content delivered by someone who has navigated the same context (rather than learned about it from training) tends to land differently. Examples come from inside the experience rather than from outside it. Adaptations happen by default rather than as an afterthought.
Every Kalda clinician brings both formal training and lived queer experience. We don’t think one is sufficient without the other.
How does clinical review work?
Every course goes through multiple clinical review rounds before it’s published. Reviewers are looking for:
- Clinical accuracy. Does the content accurately reflect current evidence-based practice?
- Queer-affirming framing. Does the content treat queer experience as ordinary, not pathological? Does it avoid implicit framings that assume a non-queer reader?
- Safety. Is crisis content handled appropriately? Are signposting routes correct?
- Accessibility. Is the content navigable for people with cognitive load, mood symptoms, or sensory differences?
- Inclusivity. Does the worked-example set reflect the full range of queer experience, not just the most visible?
Courses go back for revision until reviewers sign off. The process is deliberately slow.
Who leads the clinical team?
The current clinical lead is Dr Jake Camp, Clinical Psychologist (he/they). Jake is a queer and nonbinary clinical psychologist with a research and practice background in delivering and optimising CBT and DBT for LGBTQ+ populations, including a programme of research centring lived experience in clinical adaptation.
Full bios for Jake and the wider team are on the about page.
How does Kalda involve lived experience beyond the clinical team?
Several routes:
- Community contributors on specific courses, particularly where lived experience matters as much as clinical training (identity exploration, coming out, navigating family relationships)
- Kaldan input on what courses we make and what gaps we have, surfaced through community conversation
- External advisors for specific perspectives we don’t have in-house
The principle: identity-affirming care benefits from both clinical training and community wisdom. We deliberately structure the work to include both.
Where to next
- About Kalda for the full team page with names, pronouns, credentials, and bios
- Behind the scenes: how Kalda courses are made for the production process
- Browse the course library to see who teaches what
- Read more from Inside Kalda for further updates
The people behind the work matter. We make them visible on purpose.