I am a PhD candidate and academic tutor at Southern Cross University, where I teach research methodologies, statistics, psychology, sociology healthcare leadership. I have a Bachelor of Psychological Science Honours and my PhD topic is - Whole of Diet Approaches to Mental Health - Dietary Patterns and Depression. My have peer-reviewed journal publications in nutritional psychiatry including diet and depression and body image satisfaction in the postpartum, as well as the effects of mentalisation in child psychotherapy