BA Hons (USyd); MClinPsych (UNSW); PhD (UNSW)

I’m an Associate Professor in the School of Medicine and Psychology, ANU. After graduating with a Master of Clinical Psychology and PhD from The University of New South Wales, Sydney, I completed postdoctoral fellowships at Florida International University, USA and Simon Fraser University, Canada. I have been registered as a Psychologist (endorsement in Clinical Psychology) since 2011, and have practiced in various community and university settings.

At the heart of my research is a desire to improve mental health and wellbeing in children, young people and their families. To this end, a major aspect of my current work focuses on implementing and evaluating parent interventions in partnership with Government and community organisations in the child welfare sector.

As Director of the ANU Child Wellbeing Research Group, I also collaborate with my students on research concerning attachment relationships, child mental health, child maltreatment and trauma, family violence, and risk and resilience in out-of-home care.

Our projects are currently funded by the Australian Research Council and Australian Rotary Health.

• Parent intervention to strengthen child and family mental health 
• Child maltreatment and trauma
• Out-of-home care
• Caregiver-child attachment relationship 
• Child and youth antisocial behaviour and callous-unemotional traits (e.g., lack of guilt and empathy)