Dr Daniel Thomas Page

I design mental health interventions that work outside the lab: in schools, hospitals, corporates, and on people's phones. The kind of programmes that pass ethics review, get published, and move outcomes in the real world.

I came at this as both a researcher and a founder. The PhD taught me to take a behavioural science question from theory through to manualisation, trial, and publication. Building Psyche Innovations and the Positive Youth Development Foundation taught me to translate that evidence into a product, a workshop, a delivery team, and a business model. The combination is what I bring: I can design the substance of a programme and lead the team that runs it.

🔬Researcher. Peer-reviewed publications across youth mental health and psychosocial interventions, pragmatic and cluster-randomised trials, Principal Investigator on three international grants. Formerly a researcher at Stellenbosch University (Department of Psychology and Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences).
🚀Founder and operator. A digital mental health platform used in 90+ countries, and a registered non-profit that has carried my doctoral research to hundreds of young people.
🎓Intervention designer and trainer. I design, deliver, and consult on programmes in Psychological First Aid, Mental Health Literacy, Psychological Skills, and Leadership Development, including corporate training and development.
🏆Recognition. APA Emerging Global Leader (2024), APA Global Citizen Psychologist panellist (2026), SAMRC digital mental health panellist (2025), Stellenbosch Entrepreneur of the Month (2025).

Cape Town based, and moving to Australia. If you work at the intersection of mental health, research, and digital health, or just want to chat, get in touch.

🌱 Counselling

I work with teens, young adults, and adults who want to think more clearly, feel better, and move forward in a structured, evidence-based way, and with couples working on communication and direction. Clients range from professionals navigating stress, sleep, motivation, or life transitions, to teens and young adults working through study pressure, relationships, or confidence. I also work with organisations: workshops, talks, and training for teams that want practical psychological skills in the room, not just posters on the wall.

🧠What sessions look like. Practical and collaborative, drawing on cognitive-behavioural, positive psychology, solution-focused, and strengths-based approaches. You leave with skills you can use straight away, not just things to think about.
🌎Where and when. Online via video anywhere, or in person in Durbanville, Cape Town. Weekdays and evenings.
✅Getting started. Every new client can begin with a 15-minute intro call so you can see if I'm the right fit before committing to anything. Fees and further details are on my Psychology Today profile.

I am a Registered Wellness Counsellor with the ASCHP (South Africa), not a clinical psychologist or psychiatrist, and I do not provide clinical treatment; sessions cannot be claimed through medical aid. Where clinical care is the right next step, I will say so and help you find the right professional.

📅 Book a session ✉ Email me

🔬 Research

PhD in Research Psychology (University of Queensland, 2022). My research designs, delivers, and evaluates psychological skills interventions for young people, including pragmatic and cluster-randomised trials with adolescents in low-resource settings and adolescents with disabilities. I worked as a researcher at Stellenbosch University in the Department of Psychology and the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, collaborating with partners at UCT, Harvard, KU Leuven, and the WHO World Mental Health Survey Initiative, and I have been Principal Investigator on three international research grants.

My research has been the gateway to everything else I have built: it became the LifeMatters programme, then the Positive Youth Development Foundation, then Psyche Innovations. I also consult on research design, programme evaluation, and intervention development, from theory of change to trial to publication.

⭐ First-author publications

Page, D. T., Hanrahan, S. J., & Buckley, L. (2024). Positive youth development service-learning opportunity for university students. Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 28(4). Link
Page, D. T., Hanrahan, S., & Buckley, L. (2023). Real-world trial of positive youth development program “LifeMatters” with South African adolescents in a low-resource setting. Children and Youth Services Review. DOI
Page, D. T., Hanrahan, S., & Buckley, L. (2022). Positive youth development program for adolescents with disabilities: A pragmatic trial. International Journal of Disability, Development and Education. DOI
Page, D. T., & Coetzee, B. J. (2019). South African adolescents living with spina bifida: Contributors and hindrances to well-being. Disability and Rehabilitation. DOI

📚 Selected co-authored work

Bantjes, J., Geldenhuys, M., Van Zyl, M., et al. (2026). Developing, piloting, and evaluating a psychological first aid training for medical students in South Africa. BMC Medical Education. DOI
Barbett, L., Syropoulos, S., et al. incl. Page, D. T. (2026). Nature connectedness and well-being: Evidence from a multi-national investigation across 75 countries. Journal of Environmental Psychology. DOI
Buenconsejo, J. U., et al. incl. Page, D. T. (2025). Global profiles of positive youth development: A person-oriented analysis among emerging adults living in 21 countries. Journal of Youth and Adolescence. DOI
Laurenzi, C. A., Melendez-Torres, G. J., Page, D. T., et al. (2022). How do psychosocial interventions for adolescents and young people living with HIV improve adherence and viral load? A realist review. Journal of Adolescent Health. DOI
Laurenzi, C. A., du Toit, S., Ameyan, W., et al. incl. Page, D. T. (2021). Psychosocial interventions for improving engagement in care and health and behavioural outcomes for adolescents and young people living with HIV: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of the International AIDS Society, 24(8). DOI
Bantjes, J., Lochner, C., et al. incl. Page, D. (2019). Prevalence and sociodemographic correlates of common mental disorders among first-year university students in post-apartheid South Africa. BMC Public Health, 19(1).

Full list of peer-reviewed publications on ResearchGate or on request.

📱 Digital Health

I founded and ran Psyche Innovations, a digital mental health company building smart, scalable mental health solutions for individuals, organisations, and practitioners. Our flagship product, the Psyche: Mental Health app, reached users in more than 90 countries across iOS, Android, and web.

🧠Psyche: Mental Health app. Psychometric assessment across eight wellbeing domains, evidence-based psychological skills training, AI-supported journaling, and wellbeing tracking. On the App Store, Google Play, or in your browser.
🎓Psychological workshops and live sessions. Group training in Psychological Skills, Mental Health Literacy, and Psychological First Aid via our Workshops, and live expert-led TouchPoint sessions tailored to teams.
💼Corporate talent management and development. Training and development programmes that build psychological skills, leadership, and wellbeing across organisations.
🤝For practitioners. Tools to support clients between sessions, assign skills, and track progress.

🔧 Consulting and corporate training

I continue to take on scoped consulting and advisory work: clinical governance and safety architecture for digital health products, responsible AI in mental health, assessment and intervention design, research design and programme evaluation (from theory of change through trial to publication), evidence strategy, and corporate training and development programmes. If that intersects with what you are building or how your team works, start a conversation.

🦁 Visit Psyche Innovations ✉ Consulting enquiry

🌎 Positive Youth Development Foundation

A registered non-profit I founded in 2019 to carry my doctoral research into the real world. The Foundation's mission is deliberately unoriginal in the best way: take evidence-based youth development programmes, refine them for the South African context, and share what works so the impact multiplies beyond us.

⚽The LifeMatters programme. A ten-session psychological skills programme grounded in cognitive-behavioural theory, sport psychology, and self-determination theory, teaching skills such as goal setting, self-talk, and emotional regulation through physical activity, discussion, and practice. Developed by Professor Stephanie Hanrahan at the University of Queensland; I manualised it, developed it further, and created its disability module. Professionally translated into isiXhosa and delivered under ethics approval from the University of Queensland and the South African Medical Association Research Ethics Committee. For outcomes, see the publications in the Research section.
👬Who it reaches. Cumulatively, hundreds of young people: adolescents in the low-resource community of Kayamandi, learners at special-needs schools (with an inclusive module we built for adolescents with disabilities and chronic health conditions), young people in children's homes, and university students.
👥The train-the-trainer engine. More than 100 university students and professionals trained as facilitators through a published service-learning model, so the programme outlives any single funder or founder.
💰Funded competitively. Three international grants (Australian Psychological Society, twice, and the Univers Foundation, Japan), all delivered to scope, budget, and ethics requirements, with outcomes published in international journals.

🔗 The Foundation on LinkedIn