Julie Stone

Julie Stone began her professional life teaching English, maths and science to adolescent girls. She became curious about what influences the choices young people make in their lives. Wanting to understand more about the interplay of body, mind and spirit in personality development, Julie studied medicine to become a child psychiatrist. Her studies led her to an understanding that early childhood relationships and experience build the foundation and set the trajectory for all life experience. Although it is never too late to discover new truths about ourselves, early childhood holds the key to so much, and so Julie did specialist training to become an infant, child & family psychiatrist.

In 1998, Julie was appointed as the first specialist infant psychiatrist in Western Australia, with a specific brief to help establish a mental health service for infants, toddlers, pre-school children and their families. Julie’s Churchill Fellowship to visit centres with well-established therapeutic programs for very young children and those caring for them.

Throughout the last twenty-five years, Julie has been at the forefront of this important field, supporting others to embrace the central importance of the mental health and emotional well-being of young children in their work with and for families. The inspiration and encouragement she gained as a Churchill Fellow has remained with her as a guiding light for the rest of her working life.

In 2021, Julie was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia for significant service to child mental health, and to psychiatry.

In 2024, Julie and her husband Peter Langoulant, generously decided to sponsor a Churchill Fellowship project investigating infant mental health.