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I have provided interviews and comment on topics relating to athlete mental health for across leading news organisations including:
Television (ABC News; The World)
Radio (ABC National; Triple J; 3RRR; 3ZZZ)
Print (The Conversation; CNN; ABC News; The Age; VICE World News; Sports Illustrated)
Podcast (PsychTalks; The Sport Psych Show; Sport Psych Network; Sports Illustrated)
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Comments for media
‘The power of team sport in combating anxiety’. news.com.au, 2024
‘These athletes suffered life-changing injuries. Then, they turned to psychedelics’. CNN, 2024
‘Chainsaws, lion’s roars and bagpipe wails: The grunts that split the tennis world’. The Age, 2024
‘Athletes on psychedelics: 5 Questions for sports psychologist Courtney Walton’. The Microdose, 2022
‘How to cope when your team loses the grand final’. The Age, 2022
‘What Do Athletes Get From Ayahuasca, Mushrooms and Ecstasy?’. Sports Illustrated Cover Feature, 2022
‘Why Simone Biles and Other Elite Athletes Are Tapping Out’. VICE World News, 2021
‘Former Olympian Sally Hunter is helping young athletes protect their mental health’. ABC News, 2021
Written pieces for public
Olympians shouldn’t pay a punishing mental price for Olympic Gold. Pursuit, 2024
Big dreams and high demands: The mental health challenges of elite youth athletes. The Conversation, 2024
Athlete well-being in the spotlight at Olympics, 360info, 2022
New study reveals gender bias in sport research. It’s yet another hurdle to progress in women’s sport. The Conversation, 2022
More than 40% of elite sport coaches we surveyed suffered mental ill-health. They need our support, not stigma. The Conversation, 2022
‘When you get home it’s really lonely’: new research shows how athletes cope with post-Olympic life. The Conversation, 2021
Mental Health in Sport: Is There Any Place for Self-Compassion?, PsychReg, 2018