Live Interviews: Our Multi-Storied Bodies Wednesday Consultation Group

Poh Lin Lee is a Chinese Malaysian Australian woman who comes to her practice through multiple experiences and relationships as a narrative therapy practitioner, social worker, co-researcher of trauma/displacement, writer, teacher, film protagonist and creative consultant.

Since 2004 Poh has been engaged in therapeutic co-research with people and communities responding to themes of experience such as family and state violence, displacement (from rights, land, home, body, identity, relationships), liminality and reclaiming practices of staying with experience and preference. Creative and therapeutic fields intersected for Poh whilst working with people seeking asylum within a film project with director Gabrielle Brady, Island of the Hungry Ghosts (2018).

Nerissa Jana Stoop is a Belgian woman born on an island in the Caribbean whose practice as a clinical psychologist, narrative therapy practitioner, and humanitarian worker is shaped by working alongside people and communities affected by war, conflict, and displacement across diverse places, including the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan, Senegal, Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, Ukraine, and Venezuela. Her work is rooted in bearing witness to the displacement, grief, disconnection, and state violence that people experience while exploring the intersections of political violence, systemic injustice, and collective resistance. Nerissa is deeply curious about how neoliberalism has influenced the medicalization and individualization of mental health and well-being, alongside the popularization of self-care. In response, she is passionate about highlighting local, culturally resonant forms of resistance, mutual care, and solidarity that emerge from within the communities she engages with.