Rita Kallini

Rita is an Egyptian-Canadian licensed Clinical Psychologist in the UK (HCPC registration: PYL045989), currently finishing her PhD in Clinical Psychology at the University of Edinburgh under the Eating Disorders and Behaviors research Lab. She has earned her Master's degree in Psychology from Harvard University and she holds a double bachelor degree in Psychology and Economics. She is a member of the British Psychological Society in the UK and the American Psychological Association in the US.

Rita has been trained at The Behman Psychiatric Hospital and is qualified to use multiple approaches such as cognitive, behavioral and exposure therapies. She works with a wide array of clinical disorders and has a special interest and specialty in Eating disorders, Borderline personality disorder, Emotional Dysregulation, Trauma, Addiction and their comorbid complex presentations.

Rita is intensively trained in DBT (Linehan Institute) and serve as a DBT Trainer-in-Training with DBT MENA (sole Linehan affiliate in the region). She is passionate about helping clients who struggle with emotional dysregulation/Borderline Personality disorder through individual sessions and group therapy. Rita co-founded the DBT outpatient program and the DBT inpatient unit at The Behman Hospital. Rita has strong expertise in treating eating disorders and is an NCFED affiliate and accredited practitioner (Master Practitioner). She is also trained in CBT-E (Oxford) and Family-Based therapy for Eating Disorders in Young persons. Some of her additional trainings include: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT), Family-Based Therapy (FBT) for Eating Disorders, Schema Therapy, Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT), DBT-PE (by Melanie Harned), DBT-PTSD (by Martin Bohus), DBT-SUD (for substance misuse) and Prolonged Exposure (by Edna Foa).

Alongside, she is actively working on bridging the gap between Clinical care and precision mental health via translational AI. Over the past two years, she developed idiographic models to improve precision in diagnosing and treating eating disorders. Currently, she is leading and building a transdiagnostic, privacy-first phenotyping platform that integrates real-time monitoring to deliver clinician-ready decision support.

Living in Egypt, Rita is raising awareness on mental health through social media with the aim of providing more accessible mental health awareness & education in the MENA Region. As a fluent English, French and Arabic speaker, she can conduct psychotherapy sessions in the 3 languages.