Clinical psychologist, bestselling author of six books — science-backed personal development for high-achieving women
Dr Rebecca Ray — known as Beck — is a clinical psychologist with two decades of experience working with high-achieving people who look like they are managing brilliantly and are quietly exhausted inside. She is the bestselling author of six books, including Be Happy, The Art of Self-Kindness, Setting Boundaries, Small Habits for a Big Life and Difficult People. She appears regularly across Channel 9, ABC and News Corp as a media commentator and educator, and she lives on Queensland's Sunshine Coast with her wife, son and two rescue Irish Setters.
What makes Ray genuinely distinctive is the journey behind her science. She describes herself as a 'professional zig-zagger' — a former pilot turned psychologist, a woman who went from dating men to marrying a woman, and from burnout to being a bestselling author. That personal experience of major pivots, combined with her clinical training, gives her a hard and heart truth approach that audiences respond to as something considerably more honest than standard self-help. She has been described by a Supreme Court Justice as delivering the best presentation they had heard in 25 years of legal practice.
Her keynotes are most effective at events targeting high-functioning women in professional roles — leaders, lawyers, executives, health professionals — where the gap between outward success and internal depletion is real but rarely named. She works with the Australian Women's Weekly Health Summit, Speech Pathologists Australia and law firms, and brings clinical rigour, storytelling and humour to the stage in equal measure. Her signature framework — Pause, Name, Choose, Claim — gives audiences something concrete to take back to their working lives.
Dr Rebecca Ray is a keynote speaker based in Queensland who speaks on leadership, mental health & wellbeing and motivation. Book through Executive Speakers Australia.
This powerful keynote is for high-achieving women who look like they’re nailing it on the outside but are quietly exhausted on the inside. Dr Rebecca Ray unpacks the emotional, energetic, and often invisible cost of being the one everyone leans on — and what it takes to stop abandoning yourself in the process. Blending clinical insight, storytelling, and humour, she introduces her trauma-informed framework: Pause, Name, Choose, Claim - to help women reclaim self-trust, set powerful internal boundaries, and redefine success on their own terms.
Core Transformation: From survival mode to self-trust; from invisible exhaustion to conscious alignment; from over-functioning to self-honouring choice.
Key Takeaways: Why burnout is often a symptom of self-abandonment; how high-functioning women become invisible to themselves and how to return to self; the Pause / Name / Choose / Claim framework to break free from survival mode; how to interrupt automatic patterns, set internal boundaries, and define success on your own terms; what it looks like to live in integrity with your values without burning everything down.
• Learn the art of reframing thoughts and feelings for personal transformation.
• Discover practical strategies to shift perspectives from fixed to growth-positive and overcome obstacles.
• Cultivate resilience to navigate life's challenges with courage and self-trust.
• Align your actions and values, and purpose to inspire trust and integrity.
• Use reframing techniques to activate resilient problem-solving and innovative thinking.
• Cultivate authentic presence to enhance engagement and a collaborative work culture.
• Shift perspectives to inspire ownership, initiative, and best efforts.
• Boost productivity by establishing shared vision and purpose.
• Create meaning to strengthen levels of engagement and sustained commitment to the organisation.
I've heard hundreds, if not thousands, of presentations in my career, Rebecca. Yours was by far the best. Thank you for saying what we needed to hear.Supreme Court Justice, Ladies in Law Luncheon
Thank you so much Rebecca, your expertise and insights were so valuable. Especially appreciate you jumping back on stage and giving extra advice, it was so important. Looking forward to seeing you in Adelaide.Editor in Chief, Australian Women's Weekly
Everyone loved you and what you said. Even talk of having you back!!! Thanks for sharing your light with us. So fun and very grateful.Speech Pathologists Australia – QLD group
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