Dr Allie Peters has been a registered psychologist since 2007, with over 20 years of experience across clinical practice, research, and mental health program development. Her experience spans private practice, specialist sleep clinics, hospital and university settings, and psychological intervention development. Allie’s PhD research explored mindfulness-based approaches to sleep difficulties, integrating mindfulness principles with CBT-I for insomnia. Mentored by Professor Jason Ong in Mindfulness-Based Therapy for Insomnia (MBTI), she has a particular interest in mindfulness-based approaches to sleep. She subsequently completed a postdoctoral fellowship with Monash University and St Kilda Football Club, developing and implementing a mindfulness-based Mental Fitness Program for the AFLW team, under the mentorship of Professor Craig Hassed OAM.

Dr David Cunnington is a sleep physician at Sunshine Coast University Hospital, and an Adjunct Fellow at the University of the Sunshine Coast. He is Chair of the clinical committee of the Australasian Sleep Association and a Field Editor for the journal Sleep Medicine. David's clinical and research interests span insomnia and its behavioural and pharmacological management, sleep diagnostics, complex sleep disordered breathing, narcolepsy and disorders of hypersomnolence, and sleep in psychiatric conditions.

Dr Giselle Withers is a Clinical Psychologist and mindfulness teacher with over 20 years' experience treating mental health and chronic health conditions in Australia and the UK. A pioneer of mindfulness-based therapy for insomnia (MBTI) in Australia, she developed A Mindful Way to Healthy Sleep, an evidence-based digital program combining mindfulness meditation and CBT-I. She trains psychologists in this model and co-supervises a PhD evaluating the program in older adults. Giselle runs an Australia-wide telehealth private practice, Avoka Health, predominantly focussed on insomnia treatment. She is a Fellow of the APS College of Clinical Psychologists.

Hemangi Sanjivini is a provisional psychologist and final-year PhD candidate in the Clinical Psychology program at Monash University. She works in the Jackson Lab within the Sleep and Circadian Rhythms research theme. Her research examines digital insomnia interventions like mindfulness based therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy. Broadly, she is passionate about translational research that strengthens the researcher-clinician cycle to improve health outcomes in the community.