About Us

 
 

Professor Sarah Egan- Principal Investigator

enAble Institute and School of Population Health, Curtin University, Perth, Australia. Sarah conducts research into online cognitive behavioural interventions co-designed with young people to improve mental health through a focus on processes including grief and perfectionism and has worked as a Clinical Psychologist for over 25 years.

Profile: Sarah Egan, Researcher | enAble Institute - Curtin University | OvercomingPerfectionism

Christopher Hall- Co-Investigator

Chief Executive Officer, Grief Australia. Christopher is an expert in grief and loss and has worked as a Psychologist in the area of grief and loss including young people for over 3 decades.

Profile: CEO Blog Home Grief Australia
 

Dr Hayden Wilson- Co-Investigator

Director of Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, WA Country Health Service, Australia. Hayden is the Chief Psychiatrist for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in WA rural and remote areas and also director of a private child and adolescent mental health clinic.

Profile: (36) Hayden Wilson | LinkedIn

Sian Pauley-Gadd- Research Assistant

enAble Institute and School of Population Health, Curtin University, Perth, Australia.

Profile: Sian is completing a PhD in mental health and works as a research assistant with Professor Myers-Franchi on co-designed research with young people.

Tamara Zammit - Research Assistant

enAble Institute and School of Population Health, Curtin University, Perth, Australia.

Profile: Tamara completed a Master of Research (Psychology) in grief with Professor Lauren Breen. She has published papers on grief, worked as a research assistant previously on projects looking at grief in young people and university students’ preparedness for grief experiences during fieldwork placements, and volunteers with Lionheart Camp for Kids.

PROFESSOR Lauren Breen- CO-Investigator

enAble Institute and School of Population Health, Curtin University, Perth, Australia. Lauren is an internationally recognised expert in grief and loss, including in young people and is a registered Psychologist.

Profile: www.drlaurenbreen.com

Professor Bronwyn Myers-Franchi- Co-Investigator

enAble Institute and School of Population Health, Curtin University, Perth, Australia. Bronwyn conducts research into evidence-based approaches co-designed with young people and communities and has worked as a Clinical Psychologist for over 25 years.

Profile: Bronwyn Myers-Franchi | enAble Institute (curtin.edu.au)

Dr Amy O’Brien- Web Designer and Research Assistant

enAble Institute and School of Population Health, Curtin University, Perth, Australia.

Profile: Amy conducted PhD research into online co-designed cognitive behavioural intervention with adolescents, has worked as a Clinical Psychologist with young people and young adults, and published numerous papers, including on internet interventions for mental health which were co-designed with youth.

Elizabeth Bills – Research Assistant

enAble Institute and School of Population Health, Curtin University, Perth, Australia.

Profile: Elizabeth is a Clinical Psychology registrar, working in clinical practice in youth mental health, and as a research assistant with Professor Egan, including publishing research on mental health in youth.

 

International Expert Advisory Committee:

 

Youth Advisory Committee

We thank our Youth Advisory Committee, with lived experience of grief who helped to create this website.

Shravan Raghav – Lived experience co-ordinator

Independent lived experience consultant, Chennai, India.

Profile: Shravan has a degree in Psychology and has worked for several years in youth community mental health. Shravan has also worked on projects and published research co-designed with international youth mental health lived experience experts with Professor Egan.

Professor Paul Boelen

 
 

Department of Clinical Psychology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

Profile: Paul Boelen - Clinical PsychoPathology Lab - Utrecht University (uu.nl)

Dr Michael Duffy

School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work, Queen’s University Belfast, UK.

Profile: Michael Duffy — Queen's University Belfast (qub.ac.uk)

  

Professor Jennifer Wild

Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK and Phoenix Australia, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Profile: Jennifer Wild — Department of Experimental Psychology (ox.ac.uk)

Dr Kirsten Smith

Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK.

Profile: Kirsten Smith — Department of Experimental Psychology (ox.ac.uk)

David Trickey

 
 

Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Honorary Lecturer, University College London, UK.

Profile: https://davidtrickey.com

Acknowledgements:

We thank our international advisory committee members and acknowledge the following publications that contributed to ideas for the program:

  •  Boelen, P. A., Lenferink, L. I. M., & Spuij, M. (2021). CBT for prolonged grief in children and adolescents: A randomized clinical trial. American Journal of Psychiatry, 178(4), 294-304. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2020.20050548

  •  Duffy, M., & Wild, J. (2023). Living with a loss: a cognitive approach to prolonged grief disorder – incorporating complicated, enduring and traumatic grief. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 51, 645-658. https://doi.10.1017/S1352465822000674

  •  Eisma, M.C., Boelen, P.A., van den Bout, J., Stroebe, W., Schut, H.A.W., Lancee, J., & Stroebe, M.S. (2015). Internet-based exposure and behavioral activation for complicated grief and rumination: A randomized controlled trial. Behavior Therapy, 46, 729- 748.

  •  Lenferink, L.I.M., Eisma, M.C., Buiter, M.Y., deKeijser, J., & Boelen, P.S. (2023). Online cognitive behavioral therapy for prolonged grief after traumatic loss: a randomized waitlist-controlled trial. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, 52(5), 508-522. https://doi.org/10.1080/16506073.2023.2225744

  •  Murray, H., & El-Leithy, S. (2023). Loss. In Working with Complexity in PTSD: A Cognitive Therapy Approach (pp 167-178). Oxford, UK: Routledge.

  •  Wild, J., Duffy, M., & Ehlers, A. (2023). Moving forward with the loss of a loved one: treating PTSD following traumatic bereavement with cognitive therapy. The Cognitive Behaviour Therapist, 16, e12. https://doi.10.1017/s1754470X23000041