Rachel E. Menzies completed her honours degree in psychology at the University of Sydney, taking out the Dick Thompson Thesis Prize for her work on the dread of death and its relationship to Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Beginning in her undergraduate years, her work on fear of death and psychopathology has been published in Clinical Psychology Review, Australian Clinical Psychologist and several leading international journals.

She has been invited to speak at distinguished international events and to deliver a workshop tour across seven cities with the Australian Association for Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (AACBT). She was the lead editor of Curing the Dread of Death: Theory, Research and Practice, and, having completed her masters and doctoral degrees in psychology in 2020, she has recently taken up a postgraduate fellowship at the University of Sydney.

She can regularly be heard on national radio, popular podcasts and at relevant public events such as The Festival of Death and Dying.

David Veale is a Consultant Psychiatrist in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy at SLaM and the Nightingale Hospital, London and a Visiting Professor in CBT at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at Kings College London. He is recognised as an international expert on emetophobia and is the author of several books on the topic of health anxiety, OCD, BDD and depression.