The story behind Mental Health & Me
I built the support I wish my family had been given.
I am Tron Tran. I was diagnosed with ADHD at twenty four, long after it had already cost me things I cannot get back. Mental Health & Me is what I made of that.
Why this exists
For most of my early life, nobody had a word for why things were harder for me than they seemed to be for everyone else. I grew up in a culture where mental health was not something you talked about, so I did what a lot of us do. I pushed harder, blamed myself, and assumed the gap was a character flaw.
It came to a head when I was selected as one of forty Student Ambulance Officers in Western Australia, after a nine month process I had worked enormously hard for. Undiagnosed ADHD meant my studies fell short, and I lost the place. That loss is the reason this practice exists. Not because of what ADHD took, but because of what nobody had ever explained to me.
The diagnosis at twenty four was not a label. It was a key. Suddenly my whole life made a different kind of sense, and I could finally work with how my brain actually operates instead of against it. I went back and studied, formally and deeply, so that the next family would not have to learn all of this the slow and painful way.
There is a gap between getting a diagnosis and knowing what to do on Monday morning. I live in that gap, on purpose.
What we are here to do
Mental Health & Me helps individuals and families understand mental health and neurodevelopmental challenges, and translate them into practical, everyday strategies, so they can work with how they are wired, not against it.
Where we are headed
To be the first place people turn after a mental health or neurodevelopmental diagnosis.
The evidence
Twenty plus qualifications, and the honesty to tell you what they are not.
Credentials are not a personality. But when you are trusting someone with your child, you deserve to see them in full. Here is the foundation behind the work, grouped so it is easy to read.
Formal qualifications
- Diploma of Mental Health (CHC53315), TAFE NSW, 2024
- NLP Practitioner & Life Coaching, Wild Success Global (ICF CCE accredited)
Specialist training
- Standard Mental Health First Aid, MHFA Australia
- QPR Suicide Prevention Gatekeeper
- TouchPoints, Roses in the Ocean
- DV-alert, Lifeline
- e-Mental Health for Children and Young People (eMHPrac, ANU, Black Dog Institute)
- Compassion in Healthcare, University of Sydney (Matilda Centre)
- Co-occurring AOD and Mental Health, University of Sydney (Matilda Centre)
- Mentor Foundation Training
- Psychosocial Wellbeing in the Workplace, MHPN and Comcare
Membership and clearances
- Member, Australian and New Zealand Mental Health Association (ANZMH)
- NDIS Worker Screening (NSW)
- Working with Children Check (NSW)
- Current First Aid
Proud member, ANZMH
Scope note: Mental Health & Me provides psychoeducation, which means education and support. It is not clinical diagnosis, treatment, or therapy, and it does not replace the care of a registered health practitioner. Knowing exactly what this is, and is not, is part of how we earn your trust.
If any of this sounds like your family, let's talk.
The pilot cohort of the Empowering Caregivers program is open now. Register your interest and we will be in touch with the details.