A Conversation About… Family Violence and Mental Health – Part 2

Sabin works as an independent consultant, facilitator, trainer, and lecturer. Prior to consulting, she held senior roles in the Victorian State Government (mental health), clinical mental health services and community agencies. Her particular interests include the intersection of trauma and mental health for individuals, organisations and systems. She assists organisations and individuals that are open to changing systems, approaches and outcomes for people who have experienced trauma and mental health challenges. Taking an intersectional approach, her great passions are collaborating across diversity, celebrating inclusion, and ensuring power imbalances are addressed as best as possible.She feels passionate about ‘making the world’ a more inclusive and kinder place. Away from work Sabin is a keen gardener, loves sharing her produce with neighbours, and paddle boarding on the Barwon river.

Louise Newman AM is Professorial Fellow in Psychiatry at the University of Melbourne, Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at Newcastle University and Monash University. She has held senior leadership positions in mental health training and research including Director of the NSW Institute of Psychiatry, Director of the Monash University Centre for Developmental Psychiatry and Psychology and is Director of the Melbourne University BEAR (Building Early Attachment and Resilience) research program. She is recognised as Australia’s lead researcher in the areas of infant and early child mental health, disturbances of early parenting and parent-infant interventions. She has worked extensively in developing clinical programs for women with backgrounds of complex trauma and mental health issues needing support in the perinatal period and has over 25 years’ experience in women’s mental health. She is recognised as the leading international expert in the issues facing women with complex trauma disorder in pregnancy and the perinatal period. She is the past Director of the Centre for Women’s Mental Health at the Royal Women’s Hospital. She is currently Consultant Psychiatrist at the Albert Road Clinic specialising in women’s mental health and perinatal and infant mental health.