David is a Melbourne based clinical psychologist with 16 years disaster experience. David partners with communities, agencies, organisations, as well as local and state governments across Australia. He has been a trusted advisor after numerous events including bushfires, floods, droughts, cyclones, the 2017 Bourke Street tragedy, thunderstorm asthma, and COVID-19. David is a workshop facilitator, keynote speaker, and mentor. He also has almost twenty years’ experience as a psychologist and therapist, working with adults and young people across a broad range of mental health challenges. With warmth and compassion David highlights that, ‘Confronting adversity and trauma and somehow finding a way through is something that I’ve seen many Australian communities be able to do.’