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Dr Tracy Westerman – NADA Conference 2025
The Tracy Westerman Effect – All About Women Event at the Sydney Opera House
Dr Tracy Westerman & Jackson Long – The Change Direction Film on The Morning Show
Tracy Westerman in conversation with Stan Grant at the Sydney Opera House
Dr Westerman discusses the escalating rates of suicide on ABC News
Tracy Westerman presents the 2022 Rob Riley Memorial Lecture
Tracy Westerman interview on ABC The Drum regarding First Nations psychologists
Tracy Westerman interview on ABC The Drum regarding Jilya, Concert
Tracy Westerman interview on Jake Briggs YouTube Channel
Tracy Westerman interview on ABC Afternoon Briefing with Patricia Karvelas
The tracy westerman effect – all about women 2025
An inspirational force for positive action, Nyamal woman and renowned psychologist Dr Tracy Westerman is growing the understanding and innovative treatment of Indigenous women’s trauma. As the first Aboriginal person in Australia to complete a PhD in Clinical Psychology, Dr Westerman has opened the floodgates, inspiring others to follow her into a professional field truly in need of community-based Indigenous psychologists.
In this solo talk, Dr Westerman will share some of the innovative approaches she has developed and the many lightbulb moments she’s switched on throughout her career, creating revelations that have shaken the industry and created momentum for real change. Drawing from her decades working with clients through their often-heartbreaking stories, Dr Westerman uncovers the deep-seated and complex racial trauma that has occupied her work as a psychologist. She examines its profound effects generationally on Aboriginal women and why she believes that hope and optimism is the essence of the survival and resilience of the world’s oldest living culture.
Presented by Sydney Opera House
Dr tracy westerman – NADA Conference 2025
Dr Westerman delivers her keynote How did resilience become lost in comorbidity? Understanding the clinical and cultural complexity of work with Aboriginal clients, at the NADA Conference 2025: Strength in community.
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The keynote was held on the 5th June 2025.
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Dr tracy westerman & JAckson Long – The Morning Show
In this interview, Jackson Long & Dr Tracy Westerman talk about the Change Direction campaign and film on Channel 7’s The Morning Show by Karen Ledbury
There’s a crisis happening in Australia, and each year it is getting worse. Aboriginal adults die by suicide at twice the rate of non-Aboriginal people and heartbreakingly, Aboriginal children die at four times the rate. Yet culturally appropriate mental health services remain scarce. That’s why the Change Direction initiative, in partnership with the Jilya Institute for Indigenous Mental Health, has launched to help save Aboriginal lives. Joining me today to speak on this issue is Dr. Tracy Westerman, and Jackson Long.
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The interview was held on the 3rd June 2025.
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Dr tracy westerman in conversation with stan grant
In this powerful talk, renowned psychologist and Nyamal woman, Dr Tracy Westerman talks with journalist and Wiradjuri man Stan Grant about the transformation taking place in the treatment of Indigenous trauma.
From humble beginnings in the remote Pilbara, Dr Tracy Westerman became the first Aboriginal person in Australia to complete a PhD in Clinical Psychology. She rose to become one of the country’s leading psychologists. In her clinical practice and charitable foundation, she revolutionised the treatment of mental health, suicide behaviours, and complex trauma in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Marking the publication of her memoir Jilya, Westerman speaks to Stan Grant in a powerful conversation, arguing that the mental health professions’ one-size-fits-all approach has created irreparable damage. Drawing on decades of client stories of trauma and heartbreak, she explains how a different approach has helped to heal the wounds of intergenerational trauma. Exploring other topics such as the Raise the Age campaign and Stan & Tracy’s own lived experiences and struggles, this is an important and impactful conversation not to be missed.
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The event was held on World Suicide Prevention Day, Tuesday 10 September. If you or someone you know is affected by the topics discussed in this program, please reach out to the support resources below for help.
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Dr Westerman discusses the escalating rates of suicide
Dr Westerman discusses the escalating rates of suicide & why we are failing to address this escalation on ABC News.
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This was recorded on 23 November 2022.
DR Tracy Westerman PRESENTS THE 2022 ROB RILEY MEMORIAL LECTURE
The annual event is hosted by Curtin’s Centre for Aboriginal Studies and celebrates the life and achievements of one of Western Australia’s key Indigenous figures.
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This lecture was recorded on 22 June 2022.
Tracy Westerman interviewED ON ABC ‘THE DRUM’ REGARDING First Nations psychologists
Being interviewed again on ABC’s The Drum, Tracy reflects on the need for more First Nations psychologists.
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The interview was recorded in March 2022.
Tracy Westerman interviewED ON ABC ‘THE DRUM’ REGARDING JILYA FUNDRAISING CONCERT
Suicide rates are more than twice as high in young Indigenous Australians compared to non-indigenous, and are the leading cause of death for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.
So, in 2018, Dr Tracy Westerman set up an Indigenous scholarship to increase the number of Indigenous psychologists in Australia.
To support the program, a fundraising concert is being held on September 10 – featuring John Butler, and more.
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The interview was recorded on 9 September 2021.
Tracy Westerman interview WIth JAKE BRIGGS on his ‘KEEP ROLLING’ youtube channel
Jake Briggs introduces and interviews Tracy Westerman on his YouTube channel. His channel focusses on First Nations topics and Aboriginality, mental health, disability, music, sport, and so on.
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The interview was recorded on 1 November 2021.
Tracy Westerman interview on ABC Afternoon Briefing with Patricia Karvelas
Tracy Westerman appointed member of the Order of Australia for the significant service to the Indigenous community in mental health and suicide prevention. Using this as a platform to spread awareness.
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The interview was recorded on 14 June 2021.
#DisruptedFestival 2019 | KEYNOTE: The Truth about Indigenous Suicide Prevention
The story of Indigenous Australians is important and the truth about mental health is essential. Adj Prof. Tracy Westerman discusses among other topics, Indigenous youth suicide.
Speaker: Adj Prof. Tracy Westerman – Facilitator: Carol Innes
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The video was taken on 29 July 2019.
