Welcome to CBTPsych.com, a website incorporating a computerised CBT practitioner that we have been building since 2007. CBT, or Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, is a well known treatment approach supported by several hundred controlled experimental trials. You can be confident of the effectiveness of CBT for your anxiety and mood issues.
The goal of this website is to provide inexpensive evidence-based psychological therapy over the internet. This project began as a part of the PhD research of Fjola Dogg Helgadottir, supervised by Associate Professor Ross Menzies (pictured below) at the University of Sydney, Australia.
CBTpsych.com offers you a fully automated computer psychologist that tailors your treatment to the specific symptoms that you report to the system. The database it uses is derived from a wealth of psychological data gathered in major anxiety and mood clinics over the past 20 years. These data, combined with modern advances in research on psychologcal interventions, have enabled us to build the computer psychologist. This site is under construction, and will be offering services early in 2012
Associate Professor Ross G. Menzies was appointed Director and Consultant Clinical Psychologist of the Anxiety Disorders Clinic, The University of Sydney, in 1991. He currently holds over $5 million in national competitive research grants. He has produced over 130 international journal manuscripts, books and book chapters and is regularly invited to speak at conferences and leading universities and institutions around the world. For ten years, he was the Head and Director of the Anxiety and Stress Research Group, a collaborative research grouping of academics across Australian universities. He is the past NSW President, and twice National President, of the Australian Association for Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. He was the Convenor of the 29th National Conference of the AACBT in Sydney in 2006, and is the editor of Australia's national CBT scientific journal, Behaviour Change. He has recently been appointed the Convenor of the 8th World Congress of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies, to be held in Sydney in July, 2016. He continues to attract patients from across metropolitan Sydney, rural NSW, interstate and from overseas, with many individuals and families travelling thousands of kilometres to receive treatment at his private practice.
Dr Fjola Dogg Helgadottir has completed four degrees in psychology across two continents. Her PhD research focused on innovative computer-based treatments for the anxiety disorders. She has received several major awards for her cutting edge use of technology in CBT, including Australia’s prestigious Tracey Goodall Early Career Award for Research Achievement. She is currently a senior research clinician at Oxford University.
