About the Researchers
Dr Stan Steindl
Dr Stan Steindl is a Clinical Consultant and Adjunct Associate Professor at School of Psychology, University of Queensland. Stan provides supervision for post-graduate students carrying out internal clinical placement within the university clinics and teaching into the postgraduate clinical psychology program. He has also helped establish the Compassionate Mind Research Group at UQ, and is involved in a number of research projects on the topics of shame and trauma, compassion and self compassion, and motivation and Motivational Interviewing. He has a clinical practice and also provides private supervision of psychologists, social workers and others in the counselling and allied health fields.
Dr Marcela Matos
Dr Marcela Matos is a clinical psychologist and researcher at University of Coimbra, Portugal, who has been researching shame memories for over ten years. Prior to that, her PhD research was on “Shame memories that shape who we are”. Currently, her main research focus is investigating the impact of shame memories and self-compassion, as well as the effectiveness of compassionate mind training and mindfulness-based interventions on mental and physical well-being, and on epigenetic mechanisms and physiological stress responses. She has over 50 published articles in peer-reviewed journals broadly on the topics of shame, self-criticism, compassion, fears of compassion, compassionate mind training, assessment and intervention.
Dr Trevor Mazzucchelli
Trevor Mazzucchelli is a Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology in the School of Psychology. Trevor has been a registered and practising clinical psychologist since 1994. He has extensive clinical experience in providing empirically supported treatments for emotional and behavioural disorders having worked in various public and private settings including Western Australia’s Disability Services Commission, Western Australia’s Department of Health, Triple P International, and in private practice. He has developed programs to assist parents of children with disability prevent and manage commonly encountered behavioural and emotional problems, and trained many practitioners to support parents in using these programs. Trevor’s research interests are broad and include treatment outcome evaluations, mechanisms of behavioural and cognitive change, self-management, and how individuals and families can achieve optimal levels of functioning under both stressful and normal circumstances. Trevor is on the editorial board of Cognitive and Behavioral Practice and Frontiers in Education. He regularly provides training and supervision to health professionals, and teaches in the Master of Clinical Psychology course at Curtin University. Trevor maintains a close collaborative relationship with the Parenting and Family Support Centre within The University of Queensland’s School of Psychology where he is an Honorary Associate Professor.
Kristy Cooper
Kristy Cooper is a Provisional Psychologist studying a Master of Clinical Psychology at Curtin University. She has completed her Bachelor of Science (Psychology and HRM), Bachelor of Psychology (Honours), and Master of Psychology (Professional) at Curtin University. Kristy’s previous research has explored psychological constructs of perfectionism and mattering and how self-compassion may moderate this association as well as exploring non-suicidal self-injurious behaviours in young adults and how adult attachment style may predict engagement in these behaviours.
Ebonie Hall
Ebonie Hall is a student at the University of Queensland and is currently completing her honours thesis component of a Bachelor of Psychological Science (Honours) degree. Ebonie has extensive experience working in the disability sector and assisting people accessing psychological services as an administrative assistant in a private psychology practice. In addition, she attended Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS-2) training workshops to gain further insight into ASD characteristics across the lifespan, common comorbidities, current theoretical accounts, and issues. As such, Ebonie is interested in the benefits compassion can have on the mental health of neurodiverse people.