Mood Gym

Professor Helen Christensen is the Director of the Centre for Mental Health Research at the Australian National University. She has over 250 research publications and is listed in the top 1 per cent in the field of psychiatry/psychology internationally. Professor Kathleen Griffiths is co-Deputy Director of the Centre for Mental Health Research at the Australian National University and Director of the Depression & Anxiety Consumer Research Unit. Her research focuses on the use of the Internet as a self-help tool for improving mental health and developing programmes for reducing the stigma associated with depression.

"Moodgym is particularly popular with people in rural areas who might not have access to professionals trained in CBT" Sydney Morning Herald "Researchers at the Australian National University, Canberra, found that therapeutic websites can be as effective as visits to a psychotherapist...Patients improved after referral to MoodGym, a behaviour therapy site" The Times "a web-based program that uses cognitive behaviour therapy to help users prevent and manage depression" Weekend Australian