About

Dr Kishani Townshend (PhD, MAPS) is a Research Fellow with The Cairns Institute and Registered Psychologist. Kishani has a diverse cultural background, having lived in Asia, Africa, England and Australia. This gives her a broad cross-cultural understanding of her clients, enabling her to help them each develop their unique capacity for healing and resilience. She completed a PhD on affect regulation at the University of Adelaide. Her undergraduate degrees have majors in psychology, human resource development and counselling. Over the last 16 years, her clinical practice works with those presenting with depression, anxiety, Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD), sexual assault, learning difficulties, grief, loss, narcissistic abuse and perinatal depression. As a Clinician-Researcher, her research interests include resilience, mindfulness, healthy ageing, developing culturally appropriate screening tools and evaluating the effectiveness of interventions. She is familiar with systematic review methodology and mixed methods research.

Interests
Research
  • Perinatal mental health.
  • Evaluating the effectiveness of mental health screening tools and interventions.
  • Developing culturally appropriate screening tools for depression and anxiety.
  • Resilience, mindfulness, post traumatic growth and epigenetics.
  • Healthy ageing and dementia risk reduction.
Experience
  • 2014 to present - Research Fellow, The Cairns Institute (CAIRNS)
  • 2022 to 2023 - Post Doctoral Research Fellow, College of Medicine and Dentistry (CAIRNS)
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Honours
Awards
  • 2015 to 2018 - PhD Scholarship, University of Adelaide.
Memberships
  • 2022 - Board Approved Supervisor for Psychologists
  • 2022 - Committee Member on Research In Ethical Development (RED) at James Cook University (JCU).
  • 2021 - Committee Member For Dare To Dream program.
  • 2021 - Committee Member of Early Career Research Committee at James Cook University (JCU).
  • 2019 - Member of the Australian Psychological Society (MAPS).
  • 2009 - Registration with Psychology Board of Australia (PBA) and Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).
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