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Ms. Rachel Menzies is a Clinical Psychologist and NHMRC Research Fellow at the University of Sydney's School of Psychology. She specializes in clinical, social, and health psychology, focusing on topics such as death anxiety and its role in mental illnesses through a clinical social psychological lens, particularly Terror Management Theory. Her work includes improving the efficacy and scalability of online psychological treatments and evaluating transdiagnostic treatment approaches for anxiety-related disorders, with a specific interest in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Menzies is an active member of the International Society for Science of Existential Psychology and the Australian Association for Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, where she contributes to both research and supervision of students at Honours, Masters, and PhD levels. She has received multiple awards for her academic contributions, including the Australian Psychological Society Award for Excellent PhD Thesis and the University of Sydney School of Psychology Publication Prize.
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