I have been engaged in clinical practice since completing my doctorate and clinical training at Oxford in the 1970s. I am a clinical and health psychologist with a major speciality in migraine, headache and chronic pain. Other specialities include stress, anxiety and depression; and weight loss, insomnia and increasing social support/connections. I use a wide range of clinical techniques that come under the broad heading of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for which the defining feature is that the approach is evidence-based. Throughout my career I have held positions in universities that have involved teaching and research in my clinical practice areas which has benefited my practice, for example, writing books on treatment of migraine and postnatal depression, and training clinical psychologists. I am a Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society (and a Past President), a Fellow of the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine, and have been awarded two Australian Honours.