Every patient I help shapes my view of psychiatry.
I trained as a psychiatrist because I wanted to listen properly — not as a luxury, but as a clinical necessity.
Early in my medical training, I sat with a family experiencing the pain and grief of losing their teenage son. I supported patients after brain surgery who felt lost at sea, and I aided patients acutely unwell, tormented by a world of paranoia and delusions. I feel privileged to sit alongside patients — I see them as a person, not just the mental health challenges they're facing.
Medical expertise meets deep therapeutic understanding.
As a specialist medical doctor with extensive training in adult and child psychiatry, I take pride in providing an open-minded, safe space where patients can heal and grow.
The most effective therapy involves a tailor-made approach, which is why I personalise each of my talk therapy sessions. Medication has its role — but life experiences, relationships, connections, successes and failures matter just as much, and they get the same careful attention.
From the Maudsley to Westmead — and now Sydney.
After completing my medical degree, I did my internship and post-graduate medical training in Northern Ireland — general medicine and surgery, cardiology, psychiatry and neurosurgery. I then began my specialist training in psychiatry at the Maudsley in London, the oldest psychiatry institution in the world, working across Maudsley, Guy's and Bethlem hospitals before moving to the Gold Coast.
My specialist training spanned a national children's unit (UK), perinatal and infant mental health (including one of the few mother and baby units in Australia), inpatient adult and old-age services, acute care, early psychosis, consultation-liaison, rural and remote services in Indigenous communities, mobile intensive psychiatric services and community adult psychiatry.
After completing my training, I worked as a Child & Adolescent Consultant Psychiatrist (staff specialist) at Westmead Hospital in Sydney — responsible for the inpatient ward and for training the next generation of psychiatrists and doctors. I now work in private practice across Sydney CBD and the Hills District, with telehealth Australia-wide.
Full registration, advanced certification, accredited supervision.
- Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (FRANZCP)
- Accredited Member of the Faculty of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (FCAP)
- Advanced Certificate in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (RANZCP)
- Certificate of Advanced Training in Psychotherapies
- Certified Psychedelic Therapy Provider Level I
- Certified in rTMS (RANZCP accredited course)
- Past Member, NSW Perinatal and Infant Psychiatry subcommittee (RANZCP)
- Member, Faculty of Psychotherapy (RANZCP)
- Hearing Member of the Medical Council
- RANZCP Accredited Supervisor (board-approved)
- Member, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP)
- Registered facilitator, Circle of Security Parenting Program
- Registered facilitator, Tuning into Teens Parenting Program
- Trained in autism diagnosis (ADOS-2 and ADI-R)
- Extensive psychotherapy training across modalities
- Registered facilitator, Westmead Feelings Program 2
- Gottman Method Couples Therapy (Level 2)
What twenty years looks like.
- Nearly 20 years of experience supporting children, adolescents and adults — including new mums
- Focus on psychotherapy, using medication only when appropriate and necessary
- Worked as Child & Adolescent Consultant Psychiatrist (staff specialist) at CAMHS, Westmead Hospital, Sydney
- Private practice across the Hills District and Sydney CBD, plus telehealth Australia-wide
- Strongly believes the most effective treatment of children involves the entire family
- Passionate about early intervention in mental health
- Specialist interests: individual, parent-child, family and couples psychotherapy; Attachment-Based Family Therapy; giftedness and twice-exceptionality; play therapy; infant, perinatal, child and adolescent psychiatry
In my free time, I enjoy spending time with my family and going for hikes or walks with my chocolate Labrador.
Two Sydney clinics, plus telehealth Australia-wide.
Blue Fig Clinic
Level 5, 235 Macquarie Street
Sydney NSW 2000
02 7202 7061
reception@bluefig.clinic
Dolphin Tribe
Unit 4, 1 Railway Street
Baulkham Hills NSW 2153
02 7202 7747
reception@dolphintribe.com.au
Telehealth
Secure video psychotherapy across Australia. Selected psychiatric follow-ups by telehealth where appropriate.
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