Dr. Mary-Anne Kate is an award-winning post-doctoral researcher specialising in interpersonal trauma, attachment, and post-traumatic disorders.

She is a Scientific Committee member of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation, where she also teaches the introductory course on dissociation alongside Christine Forner. 

Mary-Anne is the lead author of the chapter on dissociative and somatic disorders in Wiley's Abnormal Psychology textbook, and has written articles on post-traumatic disorders, including dissociative disorders complex PTSD, and borderline personality disorder.

Mary-Anne also has over a decade's experience as a senior policy officer in Canberra, a program manager in Cairo, and a policy analyst in Brussels  improving quality of life outcomes, including mental health, for vulnerable client groups such as migrants, refugees, and other minorities.

Mary-Anne lives on the mid-north coast of New South Wales in Australia and currently teaches on the Master in Mental Health program at Southern Cross University, and holds an adjunct research position at the University of New England.