Kathryn Henderson, Ph.D.
Dr. Henderson is Director of School and Community Initiatives at the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University where she is also an Associate Research Scientist and Clinical Director of the Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders. As a clinician, she provides individual and group therapy and family consultation for individuals with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder and obesity. She provides clinical and research supervision to graduate students in the Psychology doctorate program at Yale, and clinical supervision to doctoral students at the University of Hartford Professional School of Psychology, where she is an adjunct faculty member.
Dr. Henderson received her B.A. from the University of Victoria in Victoria, Canada, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Queen’s University at Kingston, Canada. She completed her clinical internship at Harvard Medical School/McLean Hospital in Boston, and her post-doctoral training in the Yale Department of Psychology.
Dr. Henderson’s early research included the naturalistic study of binge eating in obese individuals. More recently, at the Yale School of Medicine and Yale School of Epidemiology and Public Health, she has focused on gastric bypass surgery patients and is investigating their co-morbid psychiatric diagnoses, methodological and assessment issues, and the phenomenon of binge-eating. She is currently proposing an exercise intervention project for post-surgical patients. Dr. Henderson also collaborates with Reza Yavari, M.D., of the Yale School of Medicine, on the psychological and endocrine study of metabolic syndrome patients.
Dr. Henderson has published on the topics of obesity, weight bias and stigma, environmental contributors to obesity, and the prevention and treatment of childhood obesity. She has been invited to present on these topics to a wide range of academic, professional, and community groups.