Hear Her

Psychiatric authority. Literary force.

Dr Roxana Irimia speaks about women, minds, bodies, medicine and the things we get wrong about them. She is available for keynote, conference, festival, podcast, television, radio, panel and interview enquiries.

The Midlife Female Brain · Women and Medicine · Identity · ADHD · The Invisible Load · What We Keep Misreading

Portrait of Dr Roxana Irimia
The Voice Behind the Work

Twenty-five years of psychiatric practice. One unmistakable public voice.

Her proposed talks draw on twenty-five years of pattern recognition and a writer's instinct for the sentence that changes how a room sees the subject.

She speaks the way she writes, with clinical precision, cultural fluency, and a refusal to reduce women's experience to language that makes the room more comfortable.

Rigorous public thinking, delivered with warmth, precision and an unmistakable point of view.

Credentials
  • MD, Doctor of Medicine (University of Melbourne)
  • FRANZCP, Fellow, Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists
  • AHPRA-registered consultant psychiatrist
Signature Talk Topics

Four talks. One unmistakable voice.

The Midlife Female Brain. High-Performing Women. The Invisible Load. Women and Medicine. Each available talk can be shaped for its audience and is grounded in a distinctive body of writing.

01
A signature talk topic.

Why High-Performing Women Suddenly Stop Recognising Themselves

A clinical and cultural map of the midlife female brain, written for the women already at the top of their field. On what happens when the body and mind begin to diverge from the identity a woman has spent decades constructing, and why no one warned her.

Duration & Format
45–60 min · Q&A optional
Ideal For
Leadership programs · Women's networks · Conferences · Board retreats
02
A medical reframing.

The Midlife Female Brain. What We Keep Missing

On the neuroscience of forgetting, the endocrinology of mood, and the gap between what women report in clinical settings and what the medical system is trained to hear. A rigorous, accessible tour of the territory medicine has overlooked.

Duration & Format
45–60 min · Extended workshop available
Ideal For
Medical colleges · Allied health · GP training · Universities
03
What comes after burnout.

Beyond Resilience. A New Map for High-Performing Women

Resilience has become a corporate instruction to endure more. This proposed talk offers a different architecture, one that honours the nervous system's limits, reclaims rest as a clinical necessity, and redefines strength for women who have never been permitted to stop.

Duration & Format
45–60 min · Panel facilitation available
Ideal For
Corporate wellbeing · Executive leadership · Professional associations
04
The economics of carrying everything.

The Invisible Load. Women, Leadership & Cognitive Overload

On the cognitive labour of running a household, a career and an institution simultaneously. Where the nervous system finally submits the invoice, and what organisations can do, structurally, to stop burning their most reliable women out.

Duration & Format
45–60 min · Panel or interview format available
Ideal For
Law · Finance · Medicine · Corporate boards · HR leadership
What You Leave With

Outcomes that outlast the applause.

These proposed talks are medical, psychological and structural, designed to offer audiences useful frameworks and a distinctive point of view.

For the individual
  • Language for experiences previously unnamed
  • Clinical clarity on hormones, ADHD and the midlife brain
  • A new language for experiences previously misread
For the organiser
  • An original premise audiences can carry forward
  • Medical authority without inaccessible language
  • A conversation that continues beyond the room
For the medical audience
  • Updated frameworks for high-functioning women in midlife
  • Recognition of compensated neurodivergence in women
  • A bridge between psychiatry, endocrinology and lived experience
Where This Lands

Built for the right room.

These talks are available for conferences, literary festivals, women's events, medical audiences, corporate audiences, podcasts, panels and interviews. Every engagement is shaped to the room.

Conferences

Available talks and headline conversations for programs seeking a distinctive, medically grounded voice.

Literary Festivals

Author conversations, panels and events exploring women, identity, medicine and the body.

Women's Events

Large audiences ready for substance, recognition and a new way of seeing the familiar.

Medicine

Colleges, universities and professional gatherings seeking rigorous, culturally current ideas.

Corporate Audiences

Leadership and professional audiences where the subject and the room are genuinely aligned.

Broadcast & Podcasts

Interviews and long-form conversations for television, radio, podcasts and digital media.

Booking

Bring this conversation to your institution.

For keynote, conference, festival, podcast, television, radio, panel and interview enquiries, contact the office directly.

Typical Enquiries
  • Keynote and conference enquiries
  • International conferences & literary festivals
  • Panel moderation & fireside conversations
  • Workshops for medical & allied health audiences
  • Podcasts, television & radio
  • Book events & author conversations
Availability
  • International enquiries welcome
  • In-person and virtual formats
  • Enquiries by email
Join Her Audience

The Second Opinion. Read her before everyone else does.

Essays and letters from Dr Roxana Irimia on women, minds, bodies, medicine and the things we get wrong about them.