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Alexander De Foe is a Lecturer in Counselling within the School of Educational Psychology and Counselling at Monash University in the Faculty of Education. He earned his PhD from Monash University in 2016, focusing his doctoral research on embodied cognition and principles of human perception. He later completed an industry fellowship at RMIT University, where he co-established a Virtual Reality and mental health laboratory in the Psychology discipline. De Foe holds a Master in Counselling, a Diploma of Counselling, and Narrative Practice certification from the Dulwich Centre. He currently serves as Board Director at the Australian Centre for Consciousness Studies and as Associate Editor for the Journal of Psychedelic Studies.

De Foe's research centres on altered states of consciousness within cross-cultural and developmental contexts. This work includes theories of consciousness related to sensory and perceptual phenomena, psychedelic states, psycho-spiritual development, transpersonal psychology, the embodied self, perceptual and cognitive illusions, psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, mental health across the lifespan, counselling, health technology, virtual reality, lifespan psychology, psychedelic medicine, phenomenological research, cognition, psychology, and psychoanalytic theory. He has authored over 30 scientific papers, cited more than 700 times on Google Scholar. Key publications include "What is autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR)? A narrative review and comparative analysis of related phenomena" (2023, Consciousness and Cognition, with A. Mahady and M. Takac); "Deconstructing psychedelic phenomenology: a thematic analysis of discrete phases of the psychedelic experience" (2025, Brain and Behavior); "Constructing representations: Jungian archetypes and the free energy principle" (2025, International Journal of Jungian Studies); "A developmental approach to body image and social media: an examination of Instagram following and attitudes toward cosmetic modification" (2025, Psychology of Popular Media, with S. Philip and J. Collett); "Differences between Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) and biophilia: a pilot study" (2024, Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, with A. Mahady and M. Takac).