Associate Professor Neil Thomas is Director of the National eTherapy Centre and Deputy Director of the Centre for Mental Health at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. He leads the PERISCOPE Lab conducting a research program on developing self-management interventions, with an emphasis on both interventions for psychosis and therapeutic applications of digital technology.
Originally training in clinical psychology in the UK, Neil went on to specialise in psychological treatments with the Maudsley Hospital. After moving to Melbourne he set up a specialist Voices Clinic providing psychological interventions for hallucinations, and became a leader in intervention research for people who hear voices. He later moved into digital mental health, leading an Australian government-funded digital mental health service for high prevalence disorders, in parallel to Victorian state government funded research examining the role of digital technology in service delivery for people with severe mental illness. He has trialled a variety of digital interventions spanning web-based self-management courses, ecological momentary assessment and intervention, virtual reality, and telehealth.
