Matt Butterworth
The Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) mission is to lead and enable a united high performance (HP) system that supports Australian athletes/teams to achieve podium success.
AIS Clinician and Mental Health Manager
Matt has a passion for helping people to live their best lives and has worked as a Clinical Psychologist since 2004. Matt values the different perspectives and experiences that people bring having grown up in an environment that encapsulated both his NZ Maori and NZ European ancestry and cultures. He has worked in New Zealand, the UK and Australia. Matt is experienced in assisting people with their mental health and wellbeing needs in sports, child and adolescent, adult mental health, and forensic settings. He’s continued to play sports throughout his life from social to representative levels and continues to value all of the great things that sports involvement can bring to people and communities: including better health, social connection, working and achieving together.
We need to tackle the day to day wellness of athletes rather than wait to intervene in critical situations. The AIS MHRN enables athletes to check-in, to talk to someone outside the athlete's sporting environment in order to help them understand and manage any issue they may be facing.