ANZAED Member Profile
‘Member Mondays’
Hi there - you’ve been invited to participate in our ANZAED Social Media member profile project Member Mondays, which will help our members to get to know one another a little better! If you feel comfortable to, we would love it if you could please include, along with your response, a high-resolution photo that you would be happy for us to publish on our social media sites to accompany this profile. In case you’re stuck with what to write, we’ve included an example profile below. Please don’t hesitate to contact our Social Media Committee Chair, Olivia Carter, via email at , if you have any further queries or concerns. You may also review Facebook’s terms and conditions regarding images and content posted on their site, you can do so here:.
The ANZAED Social Media Committee thanks you very much for your contribution…we look forward to continuing to work towards bringing the ANZAED community together and promoting transparency about who we are and what we do.
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NAME (including title):your answer here
PROFESSION:your answer here
LOCATION: your answer here
CURRENT WORK:your answer here
PREVIOUS WORK/EXPERIENCE:your answer here
WHERE DID YOU STUDY/TRAIN?your answer here
HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN WORKING IN THE FIELD OF EATING DISORDERS?your answer here
WHAT KIND OF PATIENTS/CLIENTS DO YOU SEE?your answer here
WHAT IS THE MOST REWARDING PART OF THE WORK YOU DO? your answer here
WHAT IS THE MOST CHALLENGING? your answer here
TELL US ABOUT YOURAFFILITATION WITH ANZAED:your answer here
CAREER HIGHLIGHT SO FAR:your answer here
WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE MOST TO SEE CHANGE IN THE FIELD OF EATING DISORDERS IN THE NEXT 10 YEARS?
your answer here
WHAT DO YOU TO RELAX WHEN YOU’RE NOT BUSY WORKING IN THE ED FIELD?your answer here
TELL US SOMETHING ABOUT YOURSELF…likes, hobbies, fun facts, talents etc.your answer here
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I give consent for the information above to be published on ANZAED’s social media websites, along with the attached photograph (if relevant).
Signed: ______Date: ______
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Example Profile
NAME (including title): Dr Olivia Carter
PROFESSION: Clinical Psychologist Registrar
LOCATION: Perth, WA
CURRENT WORK: Full time clinical work at The Centre for Clinical Interventions, a government funded outpatient service for adults; I am part of the eating disorders service that provides individual treatment (CBT-E) for adults with eating disorders, and family-based treatment (FBT) for adolescents aged 16-17 with Anorexia Nervosa
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE: Running weight management groups at UWA as part of my clinical training and as a facilitator of a group CBT-E treatment trial as part of a fellow postgraduate student’s PhD project
WHERE DID YOU STUDY? Completed my Doctorate of Psychology (Clinical) degree at the University of Western Australia in 2015 under supervision of A/Prof Sue Byrne and Dr Karina Allen
HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN WORKING IN THE FIELD OF EATING DISORDERS? I first became involved in the field when I completed my Honours thesis with A/Prof Sue Byrne in 2010, looking at factors predicting dropout from outpatient treatment for eating disorders. I then became involved in clinical work during my post-graduate training in the DPsych program at UWA and became passionate about clinical work in the field after running CBT-E groups for clients with eating disorders and really enjoyed the experience.
WHAT IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP TO ANZAED? I first became a member of ANZAED in 2013 partway through my post grad studies and soon after joined the 2014 annual conference committee and coordinated the volunteers at the Fremantle conference that year. I then joined the Social Media Committee in 2015 and was elected to the Executive Committee later that year. I now chair the Social Media Committee and am a member of the Executive and the Membership Committee.
ANZAED/CAREER HIGHLIGHT SO FAR:Fond memories of hitting the dance floor with Carolyn Costin, Anthea Fursland, and Beth Shelton at the conference cocktail party at Moore and Moore café during the Fremantle ANZAED conference in 2014
WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE MOST TO SEE CHANGE IN THE FIELD OF EDS IN THE NEXT 10 YEARS? I would like to see more education for GPs to improve early identification of eating disorders and access to early intervention, which I believe is incredibly important for improving outcomes in this population.
WHAT DO YOU TO RELAX? I love reading Frankie magazine, because it’s full of great, thought-provoking, entertaining articles, and also because it’s one of the few magazines out there these days that doesn’t include advertising that objectifies women or promotes over-concern about weight and appearance.
TELL US SOMETHING ABOUT YOURSELF…likes, hobbies, fun facts, talents etc.I have two sausage dogs (Dachshunds) named George and Alfred, who are adorable, loving, and occasionally well behaved. They are polar opposites - Alfie loves to run and chase his ball at the park, while George would be perfectly happy lying in the sun all day not moving a muscle (until it’s dinner time!).
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We will then take your information and turn it into something like the following…we may not include every single detail (depending on the word count), but will aim to give a well-rounded profile of who you are as both a person and a professional in the field of eating disorders.
Dr Olivia Carter is a clinical psychologist registrar who works at the Centre for Clinical Interventions in Perth, WA. CCI is a government funded outpatient services with a specialist eating disorder service for clients aged 16+, and a mood and anxiety program for adults. Olivia works primarily with adult clients with eating disorders, delivering CBT-E intervention, but is currently involved in the Stanford online Family Based Therapy training project in order to learn how to deliver FBT to 16-17 year old clients at CCI.
Olivia first became involved in the field of eating disorders when she completed her Honours project at the University of Western Australia with A/Prof Sue Byrne, investigating predictors of dropout from an outpatient treatment setting. She then went on to complete her DPsych (Clinical) at UWA under supervision of A/Prof Sue Byrne and Dr Karina Allen, exploring readiness and motivation to change in adults with Anorexia Nervosa. Olivia then completed a clinical placement at CCI in 2013, and later a number of clinical training projects directly related to eating disorders, which sparked her passion for the field.
Following completion of her postgraduate studies, Olivia joined the eating disorders team at CCI, and is now an active member of the eating disorders field. Having joined ANZAED in 2013, she soon became involved in the 2014 Conference Committee, preparing for that year’s Fremantle conference, and then joined the Social Media Committee soon after in 2015. Olivia is now a member of the ANZAED Executive Committee, the ANZAED Membership Committee, and is chair of the ANZAED Social Media Committee. One of her ANZAED memory highlights has been hitting the dance floor with Carolyn Costin, Anthea Fursland, and Beth Shelton at the conference cocktail party during the Fremantle ANZAED conference in 2014.
When she’s not busy working on projects at CCI or for ANZAED, Olivia enjoys reading Frankie magazine (because of the notable lack of objectifying advertising!) and hanging out with her two occasionally well behaved sausage dogs, names George and Alfred. Olivia says they are “polar opposites - Alfie loves to run and chase his ball at the park non-stop, while George would be perfectly happy lying in the sun all day not moving a muscle (until it’s dinner time!).”
ANZAED Member Profile‘Member Mondays’