Practitioner FRACGP
Teacher Meditation Australia
Practitioner ASLM Member
Teacher Monash University
Finalist Telstra Best of Business 2024 & 2025
Every day YOU are paying this price with your time, energy & health.
Let me help you to build a life by DESIGN rather than DEFAULT.
The daily cost of living unmindfully is huge.
Every day you are paying this price with your time, energy and health.
Let me help you to build a life by design, rather than default.
For the ones who already know
Does this sound familiar?
You're not someone who doesn't know better. You know about sleep hygiene and cortisol and the importance of not checking your phone at 11pm. You've probably read the book, done the course, downloaded the app. You understand, intellectually, that something needs to change.
And still. The list gets longer. The mornings start before you're ready. The version of you that was going to meditate this week got quietly buried under everything else.
You're capable, you're committed, and you're more tired than you'd like to admit. Not broken. Just stretched a little thin for a little too long.
This isn't a knowledge problem. It never was.
You're not alone in this. I've helped countless people who felt exactly where you are right now, and the shift always starts in the same place: not with more information, but with finally understanding why knowing isn't the same as doing.
I burnt out. As a GP.
I became a doctor because I cared about people. What I didn't anticipate was spending twenty years helping everyone else while quietly running myself into the ground.
Burning out, as someone whose whole professional life was built around helping others manage exactly this, was humbling in a way I didn't have a clinical framework for. But burnout doesn't mean the end. For me, it turned out to be the very beginning.
What I found on the other side wasn't a five-step plan. It was a different understanding of what health actually means... and why knowing what you should do and actually being able to do it are, for most of us, worlds apart.
That gap is what I work in now. On stages, in consulting rooms, online, and in retreats, for corporate teams, for doctors, for anyone who's been running hard for long enough that they've stopped asking whether it's sustainable. The thread through all of it is the same: helping people feel more whole.
I'm based in Melbourne. I'd love to be in the room with you.
University Teacher, Monash · Lifestyle Medicine Practitioner
I know what it feels like
to run on empty.
I spent years as a GP, university tutor and small business owner, helping others manage their stress while quietly ignoring my own. I knew exactly what I needed to do. The gap between knowing and actually doing it finally caught up with me.
Burning out was the reset I didn't know I needed. It forced me to take everything I had spent two decades learning... mindfulness, meditation, lifestyle medicine, breathwork... and actually live it. Now I teach those same tools to the people who need them most.
Read my full story
"Burnout doesn't mean the end. For me, it turned out to be the very beginning."
Dr Emily Amos
Professional Speaking
A talk that stays in the room
long after you've left it.
Keynotes · Workshops · Facilitated conversations
You already know you should be less stressed. You've probably read the articles. Maybe the book.
And yet... the mind still won't switch off at 11pm. The to-do list still wins. Something that felt manageable this morning is somehow impossible by 3pm.
That gap, between knowing and actually being able to change, is exactly what I talk about. Not with a framework, not with tips you'll forget by Tuesday. In a way that makes something actually shift, where people leave understanding themselves a little better and knowing what to do next.
I'm a GP and a meditation teacher. I've spent twenty years in rooms with driven, capable people quietly running themselves into the ground, while knowing every tool that was supposed to help. I know that gap from the inside. That's what I bring.
Burnout Prevention · Self-Compassion for High Achievers
Mindfulness in High-Performance Workplaces · The Science of Sustainable Performance
Every offering is rooted in the same
science — tailored to your life.
Whether you learn best independently, want personalised 1:1 support, need this brought to your organisation, or are looking for something built specifically for your world as a clinician or new parent — there is a way to work with Emily that suits you.
Online Courses
Science-backed courses in mindfulness, lifestyle medicine and sustainable self care. Learn at your own pace, in your own time.
Explore courses →Mindful Performance Coaching
Personalised 1:1 coaching for high-achievers ready to go deeper. Build a life that works — with Emily alongside you.
Learn about coaching →Speaking & Workshops
Keynotes and interactive workshops on mindfulness, burnout and sustainable performance — for corporate teams and conferences.
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Emily brought such a grounded, compassionate presence to our event. Her ability to weave together clinical expertise with real, human experience made her talk incredibly powerful. The feedback from our audience was overwhelmingly positive, many describing it as exactly what they needed to hear.
Jessica L., Program Director, Community Wellbeing Initiative
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