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. Sarah is supported by the Stan Perron Charitable Foundation (People grant).
Christopher Hall
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
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
Elizabeth Bills – Research Assistant
enAble Institute and School of Population Health, Curtin University, Perth, Australia.
Profile: Elizabeth is completing the final year of a Master of Clinical Psychology degree, has worked in clinical practice in youth mental health, and as a research assistant with Professor Egan, publishing research on mental health in adolescents.
Tyesha Shelton – Lived experience lead
enAble Institute and School of Population Health, Curtin University, Perth, Australia.
Profile: Tyesha is in her final year of studying psychology and has worked on several projects bringing lived experience expertise on grief in young people, with Professors Egan and Breen. Tyesha also works as a peer educator at the Youth Advisory Council of Western Australia and sits on a number of youth advisory groups, passionate about amplifying young people’s voices in research and decision-making
PROFESSOR Lauren Breen
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: Lauren Breen, Researcher | enAble Institute - Curtin University
Professor Bronwyn Myers-Franchi
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. Bronwyn is supported by the Stan Perron Charitable Foundation (People grant).
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 adolescents.
Emily-Rose Lochore – Lived experience lead
enAble Institute and School of Population Health, Curtin University, Perth, Australia.
Profile: Emily-Rose Lochore is a psychology student and aged care worker living on Whadjuk Noongar Boodja in Boorloo/Perth. Emily-Rose is passionate about getting young people's grief to be more heard and understood. Emily-Rose has worked as a youth lived experience advisor on previous grief projects with Professors Egan and Breen.
International Expert Advisory Committee:
Youth Advisory Committee
We thank our Youth Advisory Committee of young people with lived experience of grief who helped to create this website.
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 for helping to create the program and also acknowledge the following publications that contributed to the evidence-based strategies in 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
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