James 1:19
"Let everyone be swift to hear, slow to speak"
About Me
I am a Psychiatrist who use Internal Family Systems therapy to help children, adolescents and adults. I work with mental health issues around depression, anxiety, trauma and grief. I also help with deeper underlying issues such as being a 'people pleaser', 'finding it hard to say no', 'needing to get things right', difficulties with anger, and difficulties with intimacy and forming relationships.
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I have experience as a senior psychiatrist in the public health system, where I've spent a long time working out what works and what doesn't.
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My understanding of how we view mental health has fundamentally changed over time, and I have come to appreciate the importance of understanding, validating and appreciating all the facets of one's experience.
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After all, each of us deserves to feel safe, each of us deserves to feel respected, each of us deserves to feel heard.
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Interests
Depression
Anxiety
Trauma
"People Pleasing"
Parent Child Relationships
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Common Themes
Qualifications
MBBS University of Queensland
FRANZCP, IFS Level 1 gradudate
Adv Cert Child and Adol Psychiatry
Graduate Diploma Couple and Family Therapy (Australian Institute of Relationship Studies)
Certified Practitioner DDP
Foundational Certification in Theraplay
Adjunct Associate Lecturer UNSW
I also have an interest in helping people who experience the following:
- getting angry then feeling bad about getting angry
- people who feel bad without knowing the reason
- people who find themselves overly preoccupied with what the person who they are talking to might be thinking about them
- people who have relationship difficulties, including finding it hard to form a relationship
- people who still feel bad even after everyone tells them they shouldn't be feeling bad.