I completed my BPsych(Hons) and PhD at the University of Newcastle, NSW. I then worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney, before I moved to WA to work as a Research Fellow at the Telethon Kids Institute.

I'm currently a research fellow in Child Mental Health within the Youth Mental Health team at the Telethon Kids Institute. My research investigates childhood trauma and the ways we can identify, target, intervene and improve the lives of children and young people who have experienced adversity. I co-lead the childhood trauma research program at Telethon Kids Institute which encompasses; childhood maltreatment, medical trauma, intergenerational trauma, trauma responses in schools, trauma experienced by vulnerable populations, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social and emotional wellbeing.