Dr. Lisa Saulsman is an Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychological Science at the University of Western Australia, where she serves as Deputy Clinic Director of the Robin Winkler Clinic and Clinical Psychology Placement Coordinator. She holds a Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours in Psychology, a Master of Psychology (Clinical), and a PhD from the University of Western Australia. Prior to UWA, Dr. Saulsman worked for 13 years in public mental health at the Centre for Clinical Interventions in Perth, providing individual and group cognitive-behavioural therapies to adults with complex and enduring depressive and anxiety disorders. She developed new treatments for mood management, social anxiety disorder, and worry and rumination, with published research supporting their effectiveness. She authored self-help CBT resources on worry, self-esteem, distress intolerance, self-compassion, procrastination, health anxiety, and body dysmorphia, which are freely available online and well-known among clinicians and consumers locally, nationally, and internationally. Dr. Saulsman is co-author of the book Imagery-Enhanced CBT for Social Anxiety Disorder (Guilford Press, 2018).

Dr. Saulsman's research specializations include imagery-enhanced CBT, transdiagnostic and transtherapeutic CBT, metacognitive therapy, and integrating acceptance and mindfulness in CBT, with an emphasis on self-compassion. Key publications encompass the highly cited meta-analytic review "The five-factor model and personality disorder empirical literature: A meta-analytic review" (2004, Clinical Psychology Review), "Addressing the psychological impact of COVID-19 on healthcare workers" (2021, BMJ Open), "The essential role of mental imagery in cognitive behaviour therapy: What is old is new again" (2019, Australian Psychologist), "Picturing self-harm: Investigating flash-forward mental imagery as a proximal and modifiable driver of non-suicidal self-injury" (2024, Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior), and "Using metaphor to facilitate cognitive detachment in cognitive behaviour therapies" (2025, Cognitive Behaviour Therapist). At UWA, she teaches contemporary psychological therapy practices to postgraduate clinical psychology students, supervises their clinical practice, coordinates placements, and conducts clinically applied research, including the Healthway-funded project "Resilient Emotions, Thoughts, Actions: an online toolkit for young people."

Professional Email: lisa.saulsman@uwa.edu.au