Cirrus@Austlit

Paula Barrett has lived in Brisbane since arriving in Australia from Portugal in 1986. She grew up sharing her time between her parents in various Portuguese colonies in Africa, and her grandparents on a farm in Portugal. After completing secondary school in Portugal she lived and worked in London where she studied English at Cambridge. She then completed a Licenciatura in clinical psychology at the University of Lisbon before migrating to Australia. At the University of Queensland she completed a Master of Clinical Psychology degree and has worked in various positions, conducting extensive research into the development and treatment of anxiety in children.