Dr. Tiffany De Sousa Machado (Dr. Tiff), is one of Australia's leading experts in wellbeing, postpartum health and corporate wellness.
With a Ph.D. in Psychology/Business, Dr. Tiff works in partnership with Australian organisations, universities, corporations and individuals to help them appreciate the importance and benefit of wellbeing awareness, and how immersive processes help to achieve genuine transformation.
She delivers corporate wellbeing programs, employee wellness workshops and leadership development programs that provide individuals and teams with powerful tools to manage stress, develop resilience, undo subconscious patterning, maintain a motivated mindset, and ultimately thrive. Her process is based on rigorous psychological research, a strong evidence base, Eastern wisdom and a holistic approach to wellbeing.
Dr. Tiff also facilitates transformative retreats for individuals that provide opportunities to strengthen their emotional health, self awareness and overall wellbeing, and help people create meaningful, lasting change in their lives.
Meet Dr. Tiff
Dr. Tiff's programs provide empowerment, resilience and recovery
In 2018, Dr. Tiff founded the Village Foundation with the aim of developing a corporate environment where new parents and their families receive greater understanding, respect and support from employers. Her work is based on research conducted in Sweden and Australia, and explores the challenge of postpartum mental health and wellbeing, and how it is positively impacted by the power of connection. Dr. Tiff's research also draws on her own experience of postnatal depression.
Dr. Tiff also created the ‘HerAmbassador' program, an evidence-based training and certification initiative for employees, employers and leaders. This program is rooted in her own research and is designed to equip organisations with the tools and knowledge required to support women and parents at work. Ambassadors are then able to bring the process into their organisations, fostering more parent and women-friendly workplaces through creating meaningful connections.
Dr. Tiff's work provides a powerful tool that impacts positively on mental health
In addition to her speaking and facilitation roles, Dr. Tiff acts as a mentor and advisor on a variety of corporate and government programs. She is Associate Head of People and Culture at The University of Adelaide, specialising in Psychology and Business, and Course Coordinator and Lecturer for the foundational course on Personal Professional Development in the University of Adelaide Business School's Entrepreneurship division. She is also a Westpac Social Change Fellow, Westpac Future Leader, and and Women in Innovation Social Impact winner.
The impact of Dr. Tiff's work is wide ranging, engaging with thousands of women, employers, leaders and employees across Australia every year through her speaking engagements, writing, videos and development programs.
Her ongoing focus and commitment is to enhance wellbeing, emotional safety and mental health for people in every part of the community.
Dr. Tiff is not a clinical psychologist, nor is she a medical doctor. She will not prescribe drugs.
Dr. Tiff's approach to transforming emotional health and wellbeing
Dr. Tiff gives clients the ability to unlock their personal power through a range of transformative wellbeing programs, workshops and retreats. Her extensive range of services also include specialised programs that support the challenge presented by life transitions, such as navigating divorce, supporting and empowering new parents, and re-entering the workplace.
The key to Dr. Tiff's approach is combining rigorous research and a strong evidence base with holistic practices and real world experience. She helps people to unlock their authentic personal power in order to enhance overall wellbeing, and break unwanted patterns so that they are better equipped to move beyond surface-level solutions and achieve genuine transformation.
Who does Dr. Tiff partner with?
Dr. Tiff has helped thousands of people to explore their personal power and creativity, rescript their reality, and shape an empowered future. She works with corporate boardrooms and vulnerable communities, new parents and emerging leaders, to deliver programs that help both teams and individuals to move beyond a focus on symptom management into achieving authentic, lasting change.
Whether you're managing workplace transformation or personal breakthrough, Dr. Tiff's approach to transformative wellbeing is grounded in research that has a strong evidence base combined with a holistic approach, and which explores the connection between mental health, physical health and spiritual healing.
Dr. Tiff's transformative Ālaya wellbeing retreats
Dr. Tiff runs a regular program of immersive and engaging Transformative Wellbeing Retreats where the focus is on the whole person and their emotional health, mental health challenges, self awareness and overall wellbeing.
Retreats incorporate a blend of evidence-based, spiritual and experiential practice with interventions including Buddhism, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), ACT, Positive Psychology, Root Cause Therapy, Family Systems, Gestalt, Holotropic Breathwork, Ho’oponopono and Emotional Release Techniques.
This paradigm facilitates movement towards clarity, healing and change so that you are able to walk back into your life with enhanced self awareness, creativity, mental health and energy.
If you're feeling burned out or increasingly stuck in your professional life, have patterns in your life that need shifting, join Dr. Tiff on a Transformative Wellbeing Retreat where you can engage in active talking and listening, focus on being in the present, and achieve breakthroughs that will benefit every area of your life. Developing personal power truly begins when you delve deep into the core of who you are so that you are able to appreciate your unique strengths, skills and limitations in order to reach greater self-understanding.
Dr. Tiff's empowering wellness programs, workshops and wellbeing retreats will enable you to make a shift in your life that is lasting, meaningful and aligned.