Dr Celeste Hoopmann
Luna Founding Director
Consultant Psychiatrist
MBBS, MPM, FRANZCP

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Dr Hoopmann consults on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays

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Professional Background / Experience

Medical Degree gained from University of Adelaide

Completed Internship at The Royal Adelaide Hospital prior to general year of Residency in Melbourne through Western Health that included rotations in Obstetrics and Emergency Paediatrics

Specialist Psychiatric training predominantly through North Western Mental Health: included six-month rotation with Werribee Mercy Mother Baby Unit Outpatient Team

Final year of Fellowship completed at The Royal Women's Hospital Centre for Women's Mental Health with key focus on perinatal mental health

Master of Psychiatry completed through The University of Melbourne

Joint appointment as Consultant Psychiatrist at the Monash Perinatal and Infant Inpatient Unit and with the Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Team 

Participated in teaching program for Monash University Medical Students, and Monash Psychiatry Trainees, in the area of perinatal mental health

Returned to The Royal Women's Hospital as a Consultant Psychiatrist with The Centre for Women's Mental Health

Honorary Lecturer for University of Melbourne in Perinatal Psychiatry for Medical Students and participants of Master of Psychiatry Perinatal Selective

Received Master of Psychiatry Teaching Award in Perinatal Psychiatry (2019)

Co-presented at The Australasian Marce' Conference:

Symposium for Australian public mother-baby units and models of perinatal mental health care (2016).  Feeding Disorders of Infancy: A Case Presentation (2017)

Attended the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families in London for further training on two occasions:

Mentalization in Practice; Working with Parents and Babies and Principles and Practice of Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy

Professional Interests

All aspects of Perinatal Psychiatry, from pre-conception through to early adjustment to parenthood

Helping to ideally prevent, or facilitate early detection and treatment of mental illnesses that may arise through the peripartum period

Psychotropic medication during pregnancy and breastfeeding

Relationship issues throughout the transition to parenthood

Implementing support to help nurture parent-infant attachment

Therapeutic support for grief associated with infertility and perinatal loss.

Treatments offered include:

Individual and parent-infant psychotherapy throughout the perinatal period 

Couples therapy where indicated in transitioning to parenthood

Medication review during the pre-conception, pregnancy, and post-partum period

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