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New Podcast: “From Trauma to Transformation” — Tania de Jong AM on The Psychedelic Report

The Psychedelic Report, August 24, 2026

Tania de Jong AM joins Dr Dave Rabin (USA) on The Psychedelic Report to discuss Australia’s world-first rescheduling of MDMA and psilocybin for clinical use — and the personal story, including her family’s Holocaust history, behind her mission to make these therapies accessible.

Black market to biotech: inside Australia’s legal psychedelic factory

AFR, July 10, 2026

The Australian Financial Review has published a major feature on Australia’s growing legal psychedelic-assisted therapy industry, from manufacturing through to clinical access. The piece includes Mind Medicine Australia co-founders Tania de Jong AM and Peter Hunt AM, who discuss the mental health crisis driving demand for these therapies and MMA’s role advocating for patient access since the organisation’s founding. Read the full article via the link below.

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Tania de Jong AM Joins Sarah Westall to Discuss the Brain’s “Critical Learning Window”

Sarah Westall Show, July 5, 2026

MMA Co-Founder Tania de Jong AM recently joined acclaimed podcaster Sarah Westall to discuss groundbreaking insights into how psychedelic-assisted therapies may open a “critical learning window” in the brain — a period of heightened neuroplasticity with potential applications for PTSD, depression, trauma, and other mental health conditions.

Listen to the full conversation on Sarah Westall’s show.

Peak Performance: A Healing Wonderland

Leadership Development News, June 26, 2026

Mind Medicine Australia’s Executive Director, Tania de Jong AM, joined Leadership Development News for “Peak Performance: A Healing Wonderland,” discussing leadership, resilience and the future of mental health innovation.

Psychedelic therapy for dying patients set for TGA rejection

The Australian, June 3, 2026

Australia’s drug regulator has flagged its intention to reject an expansion of psilocybin-assisted therapy for terminally ill people experiencing end-of-life distress — despite 590 of 595 public submissions supporting the change. The TGA’s interim decision has drawn criticism from advocates, with public consultations remaining open until 3 July 2026.

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Big changes for MDMA and psilocybin-led therapies

The Australian, May 27, 2026

The Therapeutic Goods Administration has recommended a rapid expansion of the medical practitioners who can conduct psychedelic-assisted therapy sessions, expected to increase patient access and reduce costs.

Australia is the world’s frontrunner in MDMA therapy

The Australian, April 11, 2026

He wrote the seminal text on how we process trauma before turning his research to the benefits of psychedelic therapy. Bessel van der Kolk says the results are ‘extraordinary’.

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In traumatic times, this psychiatrist has some advice for you

The Sydney Morning Herald, March 29, 2026

Everywhere you turn these days, one thing seems inescapable: trauma. Trauma in the very real sense, with ongoing wars, terrorattacks, natural disasters, genocide and police violence; and in the hyperbolic way, with the word becoming shorthand in ourtherapy-speak world for enduring life’s most minor inconveniences.

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MDMA Therapy in Australia Shows Results, but the Cost Is Limiting Access

The New York Times, March 24, 2026

The country’s experiment with psychedelic medicine has led to positive outcomes, psychiatrists say, but also highlights the limitations of the nascent field.

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Why Healing Isn’t Working for So Many People with Tania de Jong AM and Dr Richard Louis Miller

Mind Body Health & Politics, March 18, 2026

What we’re overlooking in mental health and human connection.

Tania de Jong AM on the Dov Baron Show: When Leadership Loses Coherence and Control Stops Working

The Dov Baron Show, February 9, 2026

When leadership suppresses creativity and pathologizes healing, burnout and disconnection follow. In this conversation, Dov Baron and Tania de Jong AM explore nervous-system coherence, altered states, and how psychedelic-assisted therapies are reshaping mental health and modern leadership.

Reimagining Healing – How Psychedelics, Science of Song & Policy Are Reshaping Care with Tania de Jong AM

Modern Spirit Podcast, January 9, 2026

For this episode, Dr. Joe Tafur and Natasha Pentin spoke with Tania de Jong AM, an award-winning social entrepreneur, acclaimed soprano, inspirational speaker and storyteller, creative alchemist, philanthropist and spiritual journey woman.

The Remedy for Australia’s Mental Health Crisis?

Hypnotherapy Council of Australia: Beyond the Veil, December 16, 2025

The legalisation of psychedelic substances for therapeutic use with treatment-resistant depression and PTSD cases is a global first taking place in Australia. Claudine Capel from Beyond the Veil meets the pioneers of the movement and looks at the possibilities in this exciting new space.

Inside Melbourne’s new psychedelic therapy clinic

7NEWS, September 30, 2025

Psychedelic therapy is becoming more mainstream, with a world-first clinic about to open its doors in Melbourne.

Psilocybin and the Future of Healing with Tania de Jong and Channa Cassel

LaidOPEN, September 23, 2025

In this episode of the LaidOPEN podcast, Tania de Jong AM speaks about altered states of consciousness, sound, healing, and the legacy of ancestral trauma.

Australian-first psychedelic-assisted therapy trial for terminally ill patients shows improved quality of life

ABC, August 20, 2025

Australian-first psychedelic-assisted therapy trial for terminally ill patients shows improved quality of life

Mind Medicine Australia has partnered with Incannex Healthcare to open a new 50:50 joint venture clinic in Melbourne

Press Release, June 18, 2025

Mind Medicine Australia has partnered with Incannex Healthcare (Nasdaq: IXHL) to open a new 50:50 joint venture clinic in Melbourne. The MMA Clinic will expand access to MDMA- and psilocybin-assisted therapies, support Authorised Prescribers, enhance practitioner training, and lower costs for patients in need.

Australia leads way in ‘Mind Medicine’

GC News, May 18, 2025

Australia has taken a global lead in the clinical use of psychedelic-assisted therapies, offering new hope for people living with treatment-resistant mental illnesses.

‘I feel free’: how MDMA-assisted therapy helped Regan finally overcome her complex PTSD

ABC, April 28, 2025

Regan Ballantine was a sufferer of PTSD until she did MDMA therapy with Pax centre in Perth.

Listen as she describes the compelling story of her treatment, and how she finally feels “unburdened”.

“I was carrying something so heavy,” she says. “I just feel free.”

Inside the Secretive But Growing World of MDMA-led Therapy

The Australian, April 25, 2025

Journalist Penny Timms explores Australia’s legal, cutting edge, MDMA-led therapy. The Department of Veterans Affairs has also confirmed that it will fund MDMA and psilocybin-assisted therapies for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and treatment-resistant depression, in a significant move that pushes psychedelic medicine further into the mainstream.

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