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Dr Tania Perich
Dr Perich is a registered psychologist and Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology, Western Sydney University.
Tania completed her PhD in 2012 in the area of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for bipolar disorder from the University of New South Wales, Sydney.
She attained a Bachelor of Psychology (B Psych. Hons.) 2003 from the University of New England, Armidale, NSW and a Post graduate Diploma in Social Health (PGDipSocHlth) in 2005 from Macquarie University, Sydney NSW.
She worked previously with the Black Dog Institute and the School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales. She has been involved in several research trials examining the effectiveness of psychological therapies in the treatment of bipolar disorder and depression. She has also participated in longitudinal studies of young people 'at risk' of developing bipolar disorder and in the area of adolescent mental health.
David Gilfillan
David Gilfillan is a semi-retired clinical psychologist with nearly forty years of experience in a variety of areas, who specialised in mood disorders, and describes the six years that he spent as senior clinical psychologist at the Black Dog Institute as the most rewarding of his career. He has provided multiple individual and group treatments for bipolar disorder and depression, has trained psychologists throughout Australia in these conditions and has written and published on these topics. He also provides inhouse psychological services to an international finance company and works with people in the organisational sector who suffer from mood disorders.
David’s treatment of mood disorders is very much based on the person suffering from the condition than the condition itself. He is very aware of the multiple factors that influence the manifestations of mood disorders and believes that the presentation is unique for each individual. He is a strong advocate for the role of psychological treatment in bipolar disorder, in particular, and has enormous respect for the strength, insight and wisdom often revealed by the sufferers of mood disorders.
Dr Margo Orum
Dr Margo Orum is a psychologist with lived experience of Bipolar Disorder.She is the author of her own recovery book, Fairytales in Reality, published in 1996, as well as an academic book chapter on the importance of wellbeing plans in the academic text, Bipolar II Disorder, first published in 2008 by Cambridge University Press.
Her PhD research was in the area of adult development and change. It examined the phenomenon of sudden moments of insight, which led to profound shifts in a person’s sense of self, their relationships with others, and their worldview.
Margo is the Director and founder of a private psychology practice, Open Sky Psychology in Ryde, NSW.
Dr Meg Smith (OAM)
Dr Meg Smith is a registered community psychologist and a fellow of the Australian Psychological Society. She is currently a part time member of the Mental Health Review Tribunal and a community tribunal member of the Guardianship Division. She has been active in mental health reform and advocacy for a number of years. Dr Smith has previously worked in womens health and as an academic at Western Sydney University teaching and researching in the areas of community mental health, bipolar disorder, criminology and social advocacy. Meg has lived experience of mental illness and founded the Depression and Mood Disorders Association NSW. She has been active over many years in a number of national and state working groups on disability, mental health reform and development of assessment measures of mental health care delivery.
Isabel Fraser
Student representative | PHD Candidate | Masters of Clinical Psychology Graduate
Isabel has completed her Masters of Clinical Psychology with Distinction in 2019, and is now a PhD candidate at Western Sydney University. She has also completed a Bachelor of Arts and Postgraduate Diploma of Psychology with Distinction at Western Sydney University. Isabel is a psychologist who is passionate about providing evidence-based psychological interventions to support children, adolescents and adults to create positive change in their lives. Isabel has experience working with culturally diverse child, adolescent and adult populations across both public and private sectors. She has a background in research, and has a special interest in Bipolar Disorder and perinatal mental health.
