“In my experience working with Māori clients, I’ve seen how some cases of mental health challenges like depression, anxiety and even memory and concentration difficulties can be better understood through the lens of ongoing discrimination, intergenerational poverty and housing instability.” — Carrie Clifford.
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“Prayer has been massive for me. I have a couple of friends, and we just vent and pray, vent and pray. And then we eat.” — Siautu Alefaio, psychology professor at Otago University.
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“After six years of studying how to be a psychologist, I still needed to learn how to work with my own people.” — Dr Waikaremoana Waitoki
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“We’ve somehow arrived at a point where normal life events are catastrophised and the only people deemed able to fix those catastrophes are the professions that start with ‘psych’.”
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