She is an endorsed Clinical and Health Psychologist, and her main area of research interest is in optimising non-pharmacological treatment options for chronic pain. Her program of research is primarily focused on implementing randomised controlled trials designed to evaluate the efficacy and mechanisms of cognitive-behavioural and mindfulness-based interventions for heterogeneous chronic pain conditions. Her concurrent line of research aims to further our understanding of the experience of chronic pain via converging methodologies (including experimental pain paradigms and electroencephalogram), as well as advance our capacity to accurately assess its multidimensional nature. She has led the development, application, and evaluation of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for chronic pain, and she disseminated this treatment approach for research and clinical use via my sole-authored book, published by Wiley in 2017. Her US-based collaborators and she has a number of on-going NIH and foundation funded treatment trials underway at the University of Washington, Seattle.