Her PhD thesis on bereavement won the 2007 Australian Psychological Society’s Psychology of Relationships Interest Group Thesis Award. She is a Registered Psychologist, a member of The Australian Psychological Society and the Association for Death Education and Counselling, and a Board Member of the Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement. In collaboration with Road Trauma Support WA and Sirens of Silence, she developed workshops for emergency services personnel on grief, trauma, and self-care. She is an Associate Editor of Death Studies and a Fellow in Thanatology: Death, Dying and Bereavement.