An exciting program with an excellent list of esteemed speakers!
Register today to hear the following symposia:
- Rapid updates on key disorders
- Innovations in psychological treatments
- Technological advances and their applications
- Complex and challenging clinical presentations
- Hot topics
Professor Richard Bryant
Professor Bryantis Director of the Traumatic Stress Clinic and Scientia Professor of Psychology at the University of New South Wales. His research focuses on identifying people at risk of mental health problems after trauma, early intervention strategies, treatment strategies for post-traumatic stress, and complicated grief.
Professor Ross Menzies
Professor Menzies is Professor of Psychology in the Graduate School of Health at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). His research on psychological treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder is of international significance.
Professor Maree Abbott
Professor Abbott is Professor of Psychology at The University of Sydney and has a keen interest in furthering understanding of the ruminative thought process in anxiety disorders.
Professor Melissa Norberg
Professor Norberg is a Professor of Psychology with the School of Psychological Sciences at Macquarie University. She has an interest in hoarding disorder, overconsumption and climate change.
Professor Gary Galambos
Professor Gary Galambos is an Associate Professor with the University of Notre Dame, Clinical Director of the USpace inpatient unit of St Vincent’s Private Hospital in Sydney and a psychiatrist who is passionate about using technology to improve health care.
Professor Jill Newby
Professor Newby is a Professor with the School of Psychology of the University of New South Wales and The Black Dog Institute. Prof Newby has an interest in health anxiety and technology-based interventions.
Professor Janardhan Narayanaswamy
Professor Narayanaswamy is a Professor with the School of Medicine of Deakin University. He is a consultant psychiatrist with Barwon Health Victoria and has conducted research of international significance in the field of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). He has a special interest in neurobiological studies, neurostimulation therapies and CBT for OCD.
Professor Valsa Eapen
Professor Eapen is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of New South Wales and a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist with a keen research interest in the epidemiology, genetic underpinnings, neurocognitive processes and clinical presentation of neurodevelopmental disorders such as Tourette Syndrome, Autism, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
Professor David Castle
Professor Castle is the Professor of Psychiatry at the Centre for Mental Health Services Innovation at the University of Tasmania. He is an internationally acclaimed speaker with a research interest in body dysmorphic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, schizophrenia, cannabis and psychedelics.
Professor Lexine Stapinski
Professor Lexine Stapinski is an Associate Professor, NHMRC Leadership Research Fellow and Lead in Intervention and Implementation at the Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use, The University of Sydney.
Dr Jessamine Chen
Dr Chen is a Clinical Lecturer with the School of Psychological Sciences of Macquarie University who has been conducting clinical trials aiming to reduce depression and anxiety in older adults.
Dr Alison Mahoney
Dr Alison Mahoney is the Director of Clinical Research and Senior Clinical Psychologist at the Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety and Depression (CRUfAD) and THIS WAY UP at St Vincent’s Hospital and University of New South Wales.
Dr Yasmeen El Masry
Dr Yasmeen El Masry is a Clinical psychologist, board approved supervisor and Co Unit Lead at The Western Sydney Local Health District Anxiety Treatment and Research Unit – a specialist anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive and related disorders outpatient facility. She has a keen interest in the underlying mechanisms and treatment of Anxiety and OCD and related disorders.
Dr Anthony Joffe
Dr Joffe is a clinical psychologist and postdoctoral research fellow at the Black Dog Institute. His research focuses on understanding how artificial intelligence tools and interventions can be used to support psychologists and their clients, ultimately aiding to streamline the process of psychological therapy.
Dr Peter Heffernan
Dr Heffernan is a senior consultant psychiatrist working with Peninsula Psychological Medicine in Victoria. He is known for his experience in treating people with ADHD and is a member of the UK Adult ADHD network and the Victorian Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists.
Sydney Anxiety and OCD Conference 2025 dates
11 – 12 September 2025
Location
Westmead Health Precinct,
176 Hawkesbury Rd, Westmead NSW 2145, Australia
Register now
Visit the Humantix website to register for the Sydney Anxiety and OCD Conference 2025.
Poster submission
Deadline for abstracts for poster submission
27 July 2025. To submit an abstract, please email: Vlasios Brakoulias.
Contact us
Questions about the academic program and paper submission should be directed to Vlasios Brakoulias.