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Carly Johnco is an Associate Professor in the School of Psychological Sciences at Macquarie University and a registered Clinical Psychologist. She holds an NHMRC Emerging Leader Fellowship and serves as Deputy Director of Research at the Macquarie University Lifespan Health & Wellbeing Research Centre, integrating interdisciplinary research across Psychology, Medicine, and Education. Her work focuses on anxiety disorder mechanisms across childhood, adolescence, and older adulthood, emphasizing fear extinction learning, cognitive biases, and family dynamics. She completed her PhD and Masters at Macquarie University, followed by postdoctoral fellowships at the University of South Florida and Macquarie.
Research interests include optimizing exposure therapy, family accommodation in mental health, and age-appropriate assessment methods. She supervises 18+ students, with completed theses addressing topics like cognitive restructuring in youth and family accommodation in older adults. Her 99+ publications explore anxiety treatment efficacy, repetitive negative thinking, and sleep disturbances. Awards include the Alastair Heron Prize (2023) and Early Career Research Awards (2018–2019).
Johnco leads editorial roles for the Australian Psychologist and Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, and serves on NHMRC grant review panels. Current projects address translational neuroscience in anxiety treatment for older adults and culturally adapted interventions for Chinese-speaking populations. She also chairs the APS Psychology and Ageing Interest Group, advocating for mental health literacy and stigma reduction.
