Dr Alice Shires is a Clinical Psychologist, Senior lecturer and UTS Psychology training Clinic Director. Alice also heads the UTS Mindfulness Integrated Therapies Research Clinic (MTRC). Alice has been teaching and supervising Cognitive Behavioural Therapies over the last 25 years. She has additionally developed expertise in Mindfulness and its integration into Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies and has assisted in the development of accredited training in Mindfulness integrated Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (MiCBT) and continues as an established trainer in MiCBT.
Alice has been involved in the teaching, training and supervision of Clinical Psychologists and their field supervisors for over 25 years. She has been the Director of the Psychology Training Clinic at UNSW and worked as Clinic Manager at The University of Sydney and previously as Consultant Clinical Psychologist in acute and specialist mental health services in the UK. Over the last decade Alice has been involved in research and teaching and have developed a recognised expertise in Clinical Psychology supervision. She has provided Clinical Psychology Supervisor Training nationally and internationally.
Alice has taken on leadership roles in organisations related to Clinical Psychology. She was the chair of the Australasian Psychology Clinic Directors group for over a decade and is a panel member on The NSW Mental Health Tribunal and member of the NSW Psychology Council and has sat for the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunals. She has co-written papers and reports that have contributed to government and Health Department policy and conducted research leading to governmental reports. She is a member of the New South Wales Psychology Advisory Council and is an inaugural Australian Clinical psychology Association (ACPA) Board Director