Dr Rebecca Adams
Consultant Psychiatrist
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Dr Adams consults on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays
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Professional Background/Experience
Medical Degree from The University of Melbourne
Internship and Residency at The Royal Melbourne Hospital
Trained in Psychiatry in the United States: Years 1 and 2 at Stanford University.
Years 3 – 5 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.
Candidate, New York University Postgraduate Program in Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
Diplomate of The American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
Member, the International Association for Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (IARPP)
Affiliate Member, RANZCP
Supervised and lectured trainee psychiatrists in psychotherapy in Perth, WA
Years of experience as a psychiatrist/psychotherapist in private practice
Professional Interests
Adult mental health - our ‘difficulties in living’, including issues of meaning, purpose, and relationships.
Treatments offered
Individual psychotherapy, or ‘talk therapy’, in several modalities
Medication assessment and management
ADHD assessments and treatment
Rebecca works within a holistic framework, recognising that emotional healing occurs within the trusted space of a therapeutic relationship.
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The Journey
One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice –
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
“Mend my life!”
each voice cried.
But you didn’t stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do –
determined to save
the only life that you could save.
— Mary Oliver