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In this edition:
- Happy holidays from eMHPrac
- Australia’s New Early Intervention Service Announced
- eMHPrac & WellMob featured in Interconnected Magazine
- A big thank you from WellMob
- Read out recent blog on changes in the digital mental health landscape
- See the eMHPrac team at these upcoming conferences
- Read the latest dMH research articles
- This month’s featured service: QUIT
Happy Holidays from eMHPrac
As the festive season nears, we wanted to say a heartfelt thank you for all your support this year!
This year, eMHPrac has achieved some noteworthy milestones:
- Delivered 98 training events (presentations, workshops, webinars and online modules) to over 8,200 health practitioners and SEWB Workers.
- Held trade exhibits at 24 conferences, reaching over 10,000 delegates.
- Released a new edition of Australian Digital Mental Health: A Directory for Health Practitioners.
- Updated our 3 popular digital mental health brochures and released 3 new brochures.
- Released a series of 19 new referral sheets covering a variety of mental health topics and audiences.
- Updated our popular Managing Mental Health Online factsheet and our two research evidence factsheets.
- Distributed over 33,600 hard copy resources and 454,400 downloads.
- Published a chapter in the Sage Handbook of Health Psychology, 2nd Edition, Volume Two: Applications of Health Psychology. Chapter 3, titled Digital Approaches in Health Psychology, authored by Heidi Sturk, Jennifer Connolly, Kate Hatchman, and David J. Kavanagh.
WellMob has had a similarly impressive year:
- The WellMob website received 4,000 sessions per week.
- 42, 506 views of training resources, with top training sheets being Understanding the Impact of Colonisation, How to be a Good Ally and Suicide Prevention.
- Worked collaboratively with 11 First Nations and mainstream organisations and established 4 formal partnerships.
We hope this season brings you moments of rest, connection, and renewal. May your holidays be filled with warmth, peace, and a well-deserved break.
Australia’s New Early Intervention Service Announced
St Vincent’s has announced it will deliver the nation’s new free digital mental health service, the Medicare Mental Health Check In, launching 1 January 2026. Designed to offer fast, accessible support to people experiencing stress, distress, or anxiety, the service will combine evidence-based digital tools with quick access to qualified mental health practitioners via telehealth, SMS, and chat. Drawing on more than two decades of experience through their well-established digital service THIS WAY UP, the new service by St Vincent’s will progressively roll out resources from January, with practitioner-supported care to follow in March.
eMHPrac & WellMob Featured in Interconnected Magazine
We’re excited to share that both eMHPrac and WellMob have been featured in the latest edition of eMHIC’s Interconnected magazine, reflecting the growing global interest in Australia’s leadership in digital mental health.
In this issue, eMHPrac Director Heidi Sturk explores how we empower the health workforce to integrate digital mental health into practice, while WellMob Director David Edwards showcases the culture first approach embedded in WellMob’s digital wellbeing work.
A big thank you from WellMob
A few months ago, WellMob shared their short course on culturally responsive practice with our eMHPrac audience. The three-week course was delivered through eight short email lessons, offering multiple-choice scenarios with instant feedback. The response was incredible, over 350 people have enrolled and over a third have already completed the course!
With recruitment now closed, the WellMob team wanted to say a huge thank you for the fantastic level of engagement. Your participation will be contributing to research exploring the feasibility of micro-learning in a First Nation’s context, with evaluations set to start in early 2026. If you’d like to stay updated on future training opportunities, resources and news from WellMob, you can sign up to their newsletter here.
“Changes in the Digital Mental Health Landscape (Jun – Nov ’25)”
The digital mental health landscape is constantly growing and changing, making it difficult to keep up!
In this blog we provide a summary of the major changes to the digital mental health landscape in the last six months, including the latest research and service changes.
Catch us at these upcoming conferences
Digital Health Week
3 February (University of Sydney)
4 February (University of Queensland/University of Melbourne)
5 February (University of Sydney)
Presentations
Bringing together leading experts and diverse communities to collaboratively explore the future of health and care through digital innovation.
See eMHPrac’s Director Heidi Sturk present “From Innovation to Integration: Embedding Digital Mental Health in Primary Care” at the University of Queensland.
See WellMob’s Director David Edwards present at the University of Sydney.
National Indigenous Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Conference
24-26 March, Adelaide, SA
Presentation & Trade Exhibit
Honouring our ways of knowing, being and doing.
See the WellMob team at their Trade Exhibit and catch WellMob’s Director David Edwards present on “How digital spaces can strengthen Connections to Country, Culture, Identity and Belonging”.
What we’ve been reading
Feng, Y., Hang, Y., Wu, W., Song, X., Xiao, X., Dong, F., & Qiao, Z. (2025). Effectiveness of AI-Driven Conversational Agents in Improving Mental Health Among Young People: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Journal of medical Internet research, 27, e69639.
Staples, L. G., Dear, B. F., Nielssen, O., & Titov, N. (2025). Do people residing in low socioeconomic areas engage with and benefit from digital mental health services?. Internet Interventions, 41, 100865.
Nielssen, O., Staples, L., Dear, B., & Titov, N. (2025). Scientific insights from ten years of delivering psychological treatment via the internet as part of routine care. Australasian Psychiatry, 33(4), 654-657.
Our featured service… QUIT
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