She completed a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Psychology in 1992 and was awarded the Australian Psychological Society Prize and The Dick Thompson Prize for 1st placed Student in Psychology Honours and an Australian Postgraduate Research Award.She is co-developer of Danger Ideation Reduction Therapy for OCD. Based on her work in advancing the practice of OCD treatment she has been invited to contribute to a number of texts including the (2003) International Handbook on OCD Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Theory, treatment and research. Wiley and Sons, Sussex, the Encyclopedia of Psychotherapy, Academic Press, New York (2002), and in 2004 she was invited to contribute an entry about DIRT to a dictionary for a Common Language for Psychotherapy Procedures.