Dr Lisa Saulsman is a Senior Lecturer and Deputy Clinical Director with the School of Psychological Science at UWA.  Lisa is a registered clinical psychologist and worked in public mental health at the Centre for Clinical Interventions (CCI) in Perth Western Australia for 13 years, providing individual and group cognitive-behavioural treatment (CBT) to adults with complex and enduring depressive and anxiety disorders. At CCI Lisa did not just provide treatment as a therapist, but was also involved in developing new treatments for mood management, social anxiety disorder, and worry and rumination, with published research supporting the effectiveness of these treatments. In addition to her clinical work at CCI, she was also the Co-ordinator of Training, being responsible for developing and facilitating CBT-based training workshops for mental health practitioners across Western Australia.  Lisa has also authored self-help CBT resources covering numerous clinical areas, such as worry, self-esteem, distress intolerance, self-compassion, procrastination, health anxiety, and body dysmorphia.  These resources are freely available online, and well known locally, nationally and internationally among clinicians and consumers alike.  Lisa is co-author of a new book Imagery-Enhanced CBT for Social Anxiety Disorder, released through Guilford Press in January 2018. Through her career, Lisa has been involved in the selection and supervision of people training to become clinical psychologists at the University of Western Australia and Curtin University.  In addition to her academic appointment at UWA in 2018, Lisa is also Director of CBTs WA, an organisation devoted to training mental health professionals in contemporary CBT practices.

Deputy Clinic Director (Robin Winkler Clinic)

Imagery-Enhanced CBT

Transdiagnostic & Transtherapeutic CBT

Metacognitive Therapy

Integrating Acceptance & Mindfulness in CBT