Sarah is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist based on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. She has special interest and expertise in Perinatal Infant Mental Health.
Sarah has worked in public and private mental health for the past 20 years. She completed specialist training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Australia and the United Kingdom, with additional training in Perinatal and Infant Mental Health in New South Wales. She has predominantly worked in public mental health, including 5 years at Karitane, a NSW based not-for-profit organisation and registered charity focussed on supporting young families.
Sarah currently works in Private Practice after relocating to the Sunshine Coast in 2021. In her clinical practice she sees families from preconception, through infancy and childhood to adolescence. She also sees adults for psychotherapy, often for parenting and couple work.
Sarah is committed to offering care in the perinatal period, and is particularly passionate about continuing to support families beyond the first year of a child’s life. She enjoys working alongside families to navigate the complexities of this period, with a focus on holding “little people” in mind.
Sarah is a Circle of Security Parenting Group Facilitator and has professional training across a number of therapeutic models including MBT, Family Systems Therapy, DBT and CBT. In addition, Sarah is the co-author of the IACAPAP e-textbook chapter on the Clinical Assessment of Infants, Pre-schoolers and their Families. Her teaching experience in Infant Mental Health extends to providing lectures/tutorials to multidisciplinary groups of professionals including through the University of Sydney Faculty of Medicine, UNSW medical school, Health Education and Training (HETI) NSW and Sunshine Coast University Hospital.
Sarah offers individual and group supervision. She is an accredited supervisor of registrars for the RANZCP and is the current group supervisor for ForWhen navigators.
Sarah enjoys the opportunity that supervision presents to engage in thoughtful discussion around clinical experiences, to discuss and process broader system dilemmas, to support growth of professional confidence and development, and to encourage reflective and collaborative practice. Her supervision style is informed by developmental, attachment, family systems and trauma informed frameworks.
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