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Clinician    

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Stefanie has worked clinically in mental health since 2010. She has been a psychologist at several major hospitals across Victoria, including in the areas of haematology, bone marrow transplant, late effects, head and neck cancer, breast services, nephrology, and perinatal mental health.  

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Stefanie has supported clients with challenges like depression, anxiety, perfectionism, self-harm and suicidal ideation, grief, trauma, bullying and discrimination, psychosis, and borderline personality disorder, and with clients to respond to major life events like chronic or acute health conditions, identity and adulthood, parenthood, or terminal illnesses.  

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Stefanie is trained in: ​

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

• Circle of Security (registered facilitator) 

• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

• Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)

• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) ​

• Mindfulness-Based Interventions 

• Motivational Interviewing

• Solution-Focused Brief Therapy

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Research Fellow and Clinical Educator

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With expertise in evidence synthesis and research translation, Stefanie's scholarly works have been published in well-regarded, peer-reviewed scientific journals. Stefanie has also contributed to large-scale initiatives towards evidence-based practice in Australia. She coordinated the world's largest evidence map of mental health interventions for young people, provided consultation on mental health models (such as the headspace model), and has delivered training to medical and allied health professionals. Stefanie has authored several evidence-based clinical resources like clinical factsheets, research bulletins, and clinical practice guides. The resources developed by Stefanie were commissioned by the Commonwealth government to up-skill the clinical workforce, and have been disseminated widely across Australia.

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Academic

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As a university Course Coordinator and Senior Lecturer with expertise in adult learning principles, Stefanie has taught medical, health, and education professionals at the post-graduate level. She developed and lectured in courses on managing suicide and self-harm and youth psychiatriatry, and collaborated with RANZCP on their advanced training program. The latter opportunity teaching and supporting Psychiatry Registrars and Consultants contributed to a professional interest working with medical professionals. 

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Stefanie most recently led the wellbeing support of medical students at a Melbourne clinical school. In this role, she collaborated closely with senior doctors, developed medical student wellbeing, suicide, and crisis response policies informed by Medical Deans and the Every Doctor, Every Setting framework, collaborated on cross-institutional research aimed at improving inclusivity in medical education, and provided mental health support and coaching to medical students in their final years of training.  ​​​

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