Warren is the Director of the LEx Mental Health Research Group and Professor of Mental Health at Curtin University. He grew up in the small countryside town of Biggin Hill in the UK, where he developed a love of nature and science. An academic at heart, he gained a first class degree at University of Cambridge and a PhD at Oxford, before training as a clinical psychologist at Kings College, London. He spent most of his research career at University of Manchester, authoring over 200 peer-reviewed publications, including therapy manuals, edited handbooks and popular science books. At Curtin University since 2022, he uses the scientific approach known as perceptual control theory (PCT) to develop and test universal and scalable mental health interventions.

Amy is Research Fellow with the LEx mental health research group. After completing her PhD in Melbourne (2022), she recently returned to Western Australia following more than a decade in Victoria. With a background in sociology, her work reflects a dedication to understanding and addressing complex social problems, with publications spanning across disciplines such as public health, digital sociology, and community action research. Amy brings to the team a systems-informed perspective and a commitment to research that is genuinely co-designed with community – driven by equal parts rigour and curiosity.

Isabeau is a previous member of LEx who led the development of Dynamic Catalysts and the Discovery Talk research protocol. 

Aimee is a previous member of LEx who spearheaded the research and development of MYLO. 

Catarina is a PhD candidate at Curtin University. She was born in Portugal and moved to Australia at a young age. Since then, she has lived all over Australia and in several countries, such as Macau and Dubai, UAE. Finding a passion for art early in life, she began her career as a graphic artist/designer while living on the Gold Coast, QLD. She has over 20 years of experience working as an in-house designer, freelancer, team leader and art director with several national organisations, brands and international companies such as Nakheel on projects including The Palm and World Islands in Dubai. Catarina has experience working in the tertiary education sector since 2008, developing accredited curricula, training packages, and resource materials and delivering lectures in fine art, digital illustration, graphic design, brand development, marketing and advertising. In 2016, she completed her master's degree at Curtin University, focused on neuroaesthetics and understanding the nature of the cognitive and psychological underpinnings of aesthetic preference. Catarina’s PhD is grounded in lived experience and focuses on using art to monitor mood fluctuations in bipolar disorder and facilitate intuitive symptom management to optimise treatment outcomes and map key turning points on the recovery journey.

Quinn is currently completing a Master of Research with LEx under the Dynamic Catalysts research program, and is not used to writing in third person.

Their journey with looking for the structures underlying everyday life started at 18 months old. While other toddlers were preoccupied with more useful tasks such as learning to walk, Quinn was crawling out to the back verandah every day to reorganise all the shoes left by their 6-person family, trying to find what combination of size, colour, user, and type may be the most superior system.

Today, and many trials and tribulations later, Quinn continues this tradition through qualitative research. Specifically, they developed a new, holistic, explanatory, transdiagnostic, international (etc etc etc) model of mental health recovery in 2025, and their current research efforts under LEx are centred on further expanding and validating this model.

Quinn is proudly neurodivergent, has a mildly complicated relationship with gender, and frequently engages in bouldering, yoga, meditation, singing, writing, philosophy, and floor time. They love learning about train networks, astrophysics, palaeoanthropology, the human condition, and whatever the person standing in front of them is passionate about.

Born and raised in sunny Perth, Western Australia, Michael (Mike) has lived a delightfully privileged childhood and early adulthood. Coming from a lively household of three brothers, Mike is constantly looking for opportunities to augment productive professional contexts with humour.  Professionally, Michael is enamoured by Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) and the effective application of PCT that emerges from a deep understanding of its theoretical tenants. This interest is accompanied by an affinity for innovating novel methodologies that marry PCT with parallel reservoirs of scientific knowledge. Currently, this involves understanding the patterns of pupil dilation during therapeutic dialogue (the Method of Levels).  Michael has also championed the development of a virtual reality experience designed to measure an aspect of human consciousness from the perspective of the observer.  Michael aspires to balance an appreciation for theoretical nuance, whilst adhering to the pragmatic limitations of developing solutions to real-world problems. Convinced that solutions to such problems transcend disciplinary boundaries (especially psychological problems), Michael’s PhD candidature in Psychology serves as a platform from which to conduct future interdisciplinary research on psychological problems – theoretical & applied.

Professor Kanetsuki is a clinical psychologist in cognitive behavioral therapy. Over the last decade, he became interested in developing more effective mental health interventions based on perceptual control theory, influenced by the works of Professor Mansell.

During his stay in Perth, he has examined the process of cultural adaptation among Japanese international students in Western Australia. Potentially, the process of cultural adaptation and the process of mental health recovery share a common mechanism - the awareness and reorganisation of goal conflicts.

Professor Kinetsuki is also working on translating and adapting the research and interventions of the LEx group for Japan, such as 4Ds. 

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Professor Mehdi works on transdiagnostic factors—such as emotion regulation, intolerance of uncertainty, experiential avoidance, and repetitive negative thinking—which underlie a wide range of mental health conditions. His research aims to refine and enhance psychological interventions by integrating these shared mechanisms into more effective and flexible treatment models. He also explores the cultural adaptation of psychological processes and interventions within the Iranian context. Prof Zemestani has been actively involved in translating, validating, and culturally adapting the Reorganisation of Conflict Scale (RoC) and interventions such as Method of Levels Therapy. He has also conducted research on transdiagnostic mechanisms of psychopathology among adolescents with problematic smartphone use, addressing emerging mental health challenges in the digital age.

Mueen Abid's  expertise includes implementation of psychosocial interventions, adolescent well-being, family-centered prevention, and systematic reviews. She has led and collaborated on international projects funded by the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan and the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH). Currently, she is working on the cultural adaptation of Method of Levels Therapy and the Take Control Course to strengthen family systems and improve adolescent mental health outcomes in Pakistan and beyond.