Dr Michelle O’Reilly is an Associate professor of Communication in Mental Health at the Greenwood Institute of Child Health, University of Leicester, UK. She works for the School of Media Communication and Sociology and the School of Psychology as part of this role. Michelle is also a Research Consultant, at Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust. Michelle’s research interests are broadly in the areas of child mental health (with an interest in neurodevelopmental conditions), family therapy, qualitative health research, and research ethics. Michelle directs an international scholarly group specialising in discourse and conversation analysis in Autism Spectrum Disorder (Conversation Analysis Research in Autism – CARA). Michelle sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Family Therapy and the journal, Research on Children and Social Interaction (RoCSI). Specifically, Michelle is interested in language and mental health, having recently co-authored a book on social constructionism and mental health and is a co-editor of the book series, the language of mental health with Jessica Nina Lester. She has also recently edited two handbooks related to mental health with her co-author Jessica Lester ‘The Palgrave handbook of child mental health’ and ‘The Palgrave handbook of adult mental health’.