Kathrin Sevecke is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and psychotherapist and systemic family therapist. She is a professor and director of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University Hospital Innsbruck and the Hospital Hall in Tirol, Austria. She is a forensic expert in childhood and adolescence. Her main areas of research include personality pathology in children and adolescents, impulse control disorders, forensic psychiatry, eating disorders and attachment representation of adolescents. She is the co-editor of the "Praxis der Kinderpsychologie und Kinderpsychiatrie."