Dr Danielle Einstein is a Clinical Psychologist specialising in the treatment and prevention of anxiety and OCD. Danielle is an Adjunct Fellow at Macquarie University. She was the first Australian Clinical Psychologist to call for a phone ban in schools based on her 2013 paper on how emotional health is connected to tolerance for uncertainty. She was Head of the Anxiety Clinic at Westmead Hospital from 1996 to 2002, and has run her own private practice since 2003. She has continued to both collaborate on and lead research projects throughout her career.

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Danielle's latest published research examined the association between FoMO, Social Media Use and Anxiety in Australian adolescents. She has another paper being published this month highlighting what schools and parents need to do to change social media use. Over the last 16 years, she has developed and researched wellbeing and social media initiatives in schools, co-authored internationally used internet programs for anxiety and depression, and helped communities change their responses to uncertainty and anxiety (Chilled Plus, Climate Social Anxiety program, Chilled and Considerate teacher and parent wellbeing programs). Danielle has worked closely with Bell Shakespeare and staff from many distinguished schools internationally and in Australia. She is a leading expert on device use. In 2019, she wrote "The Dip:A practical step by step guide to help families manage device use" and she runs www.thedip.com which provides resources to help students and parents optimise their technology use. In 2023 she was invited to give the Professor Margot Prior public lecture for the Australian Clinical Psychology Association on how clinical psychologists should approach device use in their clients; and she helped Alex Lykos' team create the 2023 Australian documentary, Disconnect Me. She is widely quoted in the mainstream media.

Danielle's work on managing anxiety and uncertainty is at the forefront of psychological thinking. She is currently running an advanced supervision and training workshop for the treatment of OCD with Professor Jessica Grisham. Dr Einstein's latest book, co-authored with Dr Judith Locke, was released at the end of September.