Conditions & Treatment Modalities
I take the time to understand the biological, psychological, and contextual factors shaping your mental health. Treatment planning is collaborative, respectful, and clinically grounded.
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Conditions
Mood Disorders
Trauma & Stress-Related Conditions
Neurodevelopmental Differences
Psychotic Disorders
Personality-Related Difficulties
Substance Use & Addictive Disorders
Sleep & Somatic-Symptom Conditions
Perinatal & Women’s Mental Health Conditions
Treatment Modalities
Treatment modalities are recommended based on available evidence and guidelines, individualised according to patient need, and guided not only by diagnosis but also individual aetiological formulation (causal factors). I use a patient-centred and collaborative approach.
Psychotherapy
While I regularly refer to more specialised clinical and counselling psychologists, especially as part of inpatient multidisciplinary treatment, supportive psychotherapy and psychoeducation forms the groundwork for my consultations. This is transdiagnostic and draws from:
- Cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT)
- Motivational interviewing
- Neuroscience-informed approaches
- Interpersonal & social rhythms therapy (IPSRT)
- Acceptance & commitment therapy (ACT)
- Attachment theory, with application in adult relationships
I have additional training in:
- DBT adapted for ADHD
- CBT adapted for insomnia (CBTi)
- Currently enrolled and completing a course in interpersonal & social rhythms therapy
Medication Management
- Psychoeducation
- Medication initiation
- Medication rationalisation
- Medication reduction and tapering (deprescription) where appropriate
- Pharmacogenetic testing
Integrative Treatment
Integrative psychiatry retains evidence-informed standard psychiatric treatment as it’s base, and utilises additional lifestyle, mind-body, interventional and/or spiritual approaches where indicated and where there is sufficient evidence for potential benefit.
- Nutrition
- Physical activity
- Sleep and circadian rhythm
- Gut-brain axis
- Nutraceuticals
- Stress management
- IVI ketamine (referred out; my role is to assess for indications)
- rTMS (for referral; my role is to assess for indications)