She holds a Clinical Academic Fellowship which partners the School of Public Health and Social Work with the Child and Youth Mental Health Services, Child Health Queensland, Health and Hospital Services in a project to disseminate empirically tested family based treatments for children and youth. The Fellowship extends the work she undertook as Director of Social Work, Child and Youth Mental Health Services, Royal Children’s Hospital and Health Services, Queensland Health from 2001 to 2010. During this period she initiated a program to support and sustain family systems practice in the service, established an eating disorders clinic providing Family Based Therapy for Adolescent Anorexia Nervosa, and was awarded a Creswick Foundation grant to support the initiation of a clinic to provide Attachment Based Family Therapy for Adolescent Depression.