Post-doctoral Research Fellow

Flinders University Institute for Mental Health and Wellbeing

AUSTRALIA

Dr Madelaine de Valle is a post-doctoral Research Fellow in the Flinders University Institute for Mental Health and Wellbeing. She is also a practising clinical psychologist and credentialed eating disorder clinician. Her research interests include eating disorders, disordered eating, body image, perfectionism, social media, clinical interventions, and supports provided to those on the waitlist for psychological treatment. Her research to date has included meta-analyses, randomised controlled trials, and evaluation of a large-scale implementation project. Clinically, she has worked in public and private settings, offering individual and group therapy for a range of mental health concerns, such as perfectionism, poor body image, eating disorders, anxiety disorders, stress, and difficulties with emotion regulation. Madelaine is an advocate for the use of digital mental health technologies to improve treatment accessibility, having developed a digital intervention as part of her PhD research. Currently, she embeds evidence-based online interventions as adjunct treatments in her clinical practice.