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Tracy Westerman With Stan Grant

10 September 2024

In the Playhouse

Talks and Ideas

Turning Indigenous heartbreak into hope

Join us for this Sydney-exclusive event with renowned clinical psychologist and Nyamal woman Dr Tracy Westerman speaking to journalist and Wiradjuri man Stan Grant about the transformation taking place in the treatment of Indigenous trauma.

Tracy Westerman makes us human and whole.

Stan Grant

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How one Nyamal woman from the remote Pilbara transformed psychology

From humble beginnings in the remote Pilbara, Dr Tracy Westerman was the first Aboriginal person in Australia to complete a PhD in Clinical Psychology and has risen to become one of the country’s leading psychologists. In her clinical practice and charitable foundation, she is revolutionising the treatment of mental health, suicide behaviours and complex trauma in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

In an event that marks the publication of her powerful memoir Jilya, Westerman speaks to journalist and Wiradjuri man Stan Grant and argues the mental health professions’ one-size-fits-all approach is creating irreparable damage. Drawing on her decades of client stories of trauma and heartbreak, she explains how a different approach has helped to heal the wounds of intergenerational trauma. Join us on World Suicide Prevention Day, Tuesday 10 September, for what promises to be an inspirational and powerful conversation.

Presented by Sydney Opera House 

Image credit: Jodie Grieve

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