Conditions

Conditions treated.

Together with you and your family, I can offer support for the following conditions and challenges — across child, adolescent and adult life.

Conditions treated by Dr Sangeetha Makielan — a panoramic banner image.

  • Adjustment difficulties

    With pregnancy, parenting, life transitions

  • Antenatal depression

    Depression during pregnancy

  • Anxiety disorders

    Including panic attacks, phobias and fears (agoraphobia, claustrophobia)

  • Child developmental conditions

    ADHD, autism spectrum disorders — see child & adolescent psychiatry

  • Dissociative disorders

    Dissociative amnesia, fugue, depersonalisation, dissociative identity disorder

  • Gender dysphoria

    Distress when biological sex and gender identity do not align

  • Grief

    Loss of relationship, fertility, perinatal loss

  • Impulse control & motor disorders

    Intermittent explosive disorder, conduct disorder

  • Mood disorders

    Depression, and bipolar disorder

  • Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)

    Recurring, unwanted thoughts driving repetitive behaviours

  • Parent-child relationship difficulties

    Boundary, rejection, overprotection or overindulgence patterns

  • Perimenopausal depression

    Depressive symptoms during the transition to menopause — read more

  • Personality disorders

    Rigid, unhealthy patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving

  • Postnatal depression

    Affects 10–15 in every 100 women after childbirth — see perinatal psychiatry

  • Postpartum psychosis

    Severe illness; can start with symptoms of depression or mania

  • Psychotic disorders

    Psychosis, schizophrenia, delusional disorder, paraphrenia

  • Relationship & interpersonal difficulties

    Anger, communication, negotiation, isolation

  • Trauma & stress-related disorders

    PTSD, acute stress disorder (ASD), complex trauma

  • Traumatic life events

    Combat exposure, childhood physical abuse, sexual violence, physical assault, accidents

Special interests

Where my practice concentrates.

Where to find me

Two Sydney clinics, plus telehealth Australia-wide.

Sydney CBD

Blue Fig Clinic

Level 5, 235 Macquarie Street
Sydney NSW 2000

02 7202 7061
reception@bluefig.clinic

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Hills District

Dolphin Tribe

Unit 4, 1 Railway Street
Baulkham Hills NSW 2153

02 7202 7747
reception@dolphintribe.com.au

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Anywhere in Australia

Telehealth

Secure video psychotherapy across Australia. Selected psychiatric follow-ups by telehealth where appropriate.

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Ready to make a booking?

GP and specialist referrals welcome. Self-referrals accepted for psychotherapy. Bookings go through whichever clinic suits you — reception will take it from there.

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