Australian Psychiatrists & Therapists
Wiki Index
If you're new to this I recommend reading though the links in this section.
Gatekeeping (bad)
More information here
Some of these psychs and therapists listed on this page are members of AusPath and listed on their site - however that doesn't mean they are well regarded in the trans community. If a provider is not a member of AusPath it doesn't mean much - the well known Sydney endocrinologist Dr Jonathan Hayes was never a member of AusPath (or AnzPath that preceded it). Where possible find a psych who is well regarded in the trans community. There are people in Australia who you should avoid.
https://auspath.org.au/providers - lists providers in Australia, but it doesn't say if they are good or not.
Warning
You should be very careful when choosing a therapist or psychiatrist, read reviews and look for red flags. There's a number of people who should be avoided, and they are not all listed here.
2024-04-02 - reddit PETITION: Stop Promoting Transphobic Rhetoric at Psychiatrist Conference by orangebasket5 - "The RANZCP is an organisation which sets the standard for quality psychiatric care in Australia and New Zealand. They run conferences, training, etc. Their annual congress (the big conference) includes a workshop on "Transgender mental health". The focus of this workshop is detransition and dissatisfaction after gender affirming care. Three of the speakers have written papers which stand for all the generic medical transphobia things - gender affirming care doesn't help people, most people regret transitioning, kids shouldn't be allowed to transition, etc etc. The speakers also (unsurprisingly) have ties to transphobic and anti-queer groups."
In October 2021 the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) came out with a postion statement supporting coversion therapy. It's apalling that such a thing can still happen in Australia and a very bad sign of things to come.
There's a good analyis of this in the Facebook Group International Transgender Health
The Position Statment itself.
A response in 2022 this postion statement, Re: The RANZCP position statement on gender dysphoria by Sav Zwickl, Belinda Chaplin, Fiona Bisshop, Teddy Cook, Clara Tuck Meng Soo, Belinda Birtles, Jaimie Veale, Rona Carroll, Rachel Johnson, Joey Macdonald, Jesse Porter, Cassie Withey-Rila, Zoe Kristensen, Ashleigh Lin. PDF HERE. I reconise some of these these people as leading Australian researchers, doctors, etc specialising in transgender care. Sav Zwickl is a notable researcher, Dr Fiona Bisshop is a GP in Brisbane and president of AusPATH, Teddy Cook is on the board of AusPATH, responsible for transhub, and organising medical the Sydney medical community's to care for 4000 trans people after Dr Jon Hayes retired in 2019, Clara Tuck Meng Soo is a well respected trans GP in the ACT awarded the Order Of Australia in 2016. Its well worth reading the entire resoponse, but I've extracted some bits here
Historically, psychiatry has played a central role in the pathologisation of those seeking medical gender affirmation. Gatekeeping, the process by which gender affirming care has been withheld or controlled by the medical field, has been widely practiced in psychiatry, neglecting a patient-led, informed consent approach. As we outline below, the recent RANZCP position statement frames the trans experience as inherently pathological. This is in direct conflict with World Health Organization, American Psychiatric Association, World Professional Association for Transgender Health, AusPATH and PATHA, all of whom make it clear that being trans is not a pathology. Through selectively citing research and treatment guidelines, the position statement equates peer-reviewed evidence with ‘professional opinion’ and the notion of supporting trans people as a ‘debate’.
Given that being trans is not a pathology, psychiatry’s place in trans healthcare today should be limited to working with mental health concerns, which are faced by trans people inequitably due to stigma, lack of support, discrimination and prejudice...
In conclusion, the RANZCP position runs directly counter to the well-established evidence base that gender affirmation improves health outcomes and strengthens quality of life. Unreasonable barriers to access and outdated and harmful arbitrary protocols, can only lead to poorer health and wellbeing outcomes for trans people across the lifespan, including young people. Unfortunately, some trans people lose their life through suicide due to the lack of access or denial of appropriate healthcare and
gender affirming treatment.
Who are the people behind the anti-trans movement in Australia and New Zealand? I'll fill this in as I learn more
Procare Group
https://www.procaregroup.com.au
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Christian Medical and Dental Fellowship of Australia
This site publishes a lot of anti-trans propaganda (by doctors)
- https://lukesjournalcmdfa.com/2023/05/16/stop-press-jereth-kok-interview - "Why was Jereth Kok’s medical license suspended suddenly and indefinitely?" - there's a bunch of anti-trans religous propaganda on this site
- The pinknews posts Christian doctor barred from practising after ‘demeaning’ posts against LGBT+ people and ‘endorsing’ genocide in 2020 - "Australian Christian doctor Jereth Kok was stripped of the right to practise after he appeared to “endorse or call for violence and/or genocide towards racial and religious groups” as well as towards the LGBT+ community on social media. Working within Melbourne’s letter stamp suburbs, Dr Kok had for years candidly expressed his inflammatory views on his social media accounts. Complaints against his posts began to pile from 2018 onwards and, in 2019, the Medical Board of Australia suspended him, ending his 16-yearslong career..."
- Principles and Principalities of Childhood Gender Dysphoria – Prof John Whitehall by Prof John Whitehall (Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health at Western Sydney University) that starts off with "The horrors of ‘medicine’ practiced by doctors under the Nazi regime provoked the development of a code describing the rights of participants and the responsibilities of investigators involved in experimental procedures. Released in 1947, after criminal proceedings against various Nazi experimenters, the list of rights and responsibilities became known as the ‘Nuremburg Code’ and went on to be fundamental to such current documents as ‘The International Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Research Involving Human Subjects’ by the World Health Organisation...", and doesn't get any better as it continues with anti-trans propaganda.
There's also an article Drivers and Sustainers – Lachlan Dunjey by GP Dr Lachlan Dunjey linking to http://www.conscienceinmedicine.net.au
Complaints
https://www.ahpra.gov.au/Notifications/Concerned-about-a-health-practitioner.aspx
Telehealth
Richard Harvey
Key details
reddit
- WPATH Letter for SRS with Suporn Clinic by Twinky_Winky69 in 2025 - "So I have a date with the Suporn Clinic this year reserved, I got in contact with a highly recommended Australian psychiatrist to provide a WPATH letter, but as of yet today he has informed me he no longer wants does it for Suporn due to the difficulty in working with the Clinic."
- Help with wpath letter by 8ottomBB in 2024
- Psych Brought Up Issue Regarding Reputation of Thai Surgeons for GRS by frostypls in 2021 - "One thing he brought up immediately is that he strongly recommended that I consider local surgeons over going to Thailand. Thankfully he wont stop me or not provide a referral, but just wanted to voice his concerns about his. His exact words: I am afraid all of us working in this field are aware of very poor outcomes for people having GRS in Thailand, then ending up back in Australia with either a poor functional outcome, pain or other complications and finding it very difficult to access post-op surgical care or support."
- Psychiatrist WPATH letters for regional/rural Australians - Prof. Richard Harvey by demon-daddy in 2020
Skype
Psych's who will work over Skype.
reddit
Graham L Peveller
Online psych for surgery in Thailand (he's not based in Australia)
ACT
Judy Frith
Location
Sites
reddit
Lisa Bell
reddit
Tushara Wickramariyaratne
Sites
reddit
Matthew Sellen
Sites
Jo Cole
Sites
Lisa O'Connor
Sites
Tabitha Frew
reddit
NSW
Sydney Gender Center
The Sydney Gender Center has free therapists, but they cannot write letters for HRT or surgery.
Michael Scott
I've met him and know a lot of people who have been to him. He's very good and does not engage in gatekeeping.
Key details
- Neutral Bay, Sydney
- Psych who writes letter for HRT and surgery.
Sites
reddit
Other
Anthony Carlino
He's a therapist and used to work at the Sydney Gender Center. I've met and can recommend him.
Anthony has a number of articles in the Sydney Gender Center's Polare magazines.
reddit
Sydney Morning Herald
Rainer Jardin
Location
Sites
reddit
- psychiatrist in Sydney by jadefafare in 2020
- Any therapists you'd recommend in Sydney? by bagelcatt in 2020
- Psychiatrist experiences in Sydney by likeanovigradwhore around 2016
- Anyone able to recommend which of these psychiatrists i should go to?
- https://www.reddit.com/r/transgenderau/wiki/resources-nsw - "He is a clinical psychologist who helps with depression, stress, anxiety, gender dysphoria, transgender support and transitioning assistance, sexuality and sexual identity concerns, LGBITQI well being, adjustment disorders, drug and alcohol issues, medical concerns, issues across the lifespan, minority stress (due to diversity in sexuality, gender, culture). He has an in depth understanding of gender identity."
James Morandini
Also works at the Sydney Gender Center.
Key details
reddit
YouTube - Gender Wars Podcast
This is a new channel in 2024 and I can't find much. It appears to be some reposting of video's that had been removed earlier.
Google search results for Anne Lawrence, in order in which they appear
AGP
Reddit posts related to the video's
Vimeo
Papers
Other
Matthew Jepsen
Dr's Sites
reddit
Stephen Koder
Location
Sites
reddit
https://www.ygender.org.au/trans-healthcare-reviews?tag=Stephen+Koder
Honi Soit
Review sites
- https://www.ratemds.com/doctor-ratings/dr-stephen-koder-sydney-nsw-au - lots of bad reviews, "Takes 3+ months to do things that could have taken 5 minutes. Is consistently late to every appointment, spends half the appointment turning on the computer or talking about himself and is impossible to contact other than waiting several months between appointments. If you can find any other psychiatrist, go to any other psychiatrist." AND "My daughter has gender issues and was referred to this quack..." AND " And that's not the best part - he particularly enjoys patients on the autism spectrum and has a passion for calling the police on them for having a common autistic meltdown just to get a kick out of it. The very busy police officers were so pleased to have their time wasted over literally nothing! I highly recommend this "psychiatrist" to anyone who enjoys the thrill of being treated like a criminal or a danger to Total Health Care's surroundings. "
Larry Brash
Appears to be deceased.
Location
reddit
Xi Liu
Key details
I've heard she's very good.
Dragan Wright
Location
Sites
Elizabeth Riley
Location
Sites
reddit
Janet Cartwright
Location
Sites
Imanadari Counselling
Francis Voon
Key details
reddit
Monica Raven
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reddit
Stuart Edser
Location
Sites
reddit
Sharon Gold
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Patrick Toohey
Location
reddit
Susans
Matt Currie
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reddit
Talia Hashworth
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reddit
Kiara Birdy
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reddit
Sharat Lal
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Lists "Gender Dysphoria" on his profile.
Google cache displays this fragment "5.1 The third defendant, Dr. Matthew Hearps is sued for ... On 11 June 2010 Dr Sharat Lal wrongfully issued a certificate under section 19 of the Mental Health Act. Particulars. 38.1 The plaintiff was not a “mentally" for a link that appears to no longer exist http://black-op.org/downloads/PINK_SOC%20-%20withSupremeCourtofNSWseal.docx. The main page of that site links to a Word document http://black-op.org/downloads/PINK_SOC%20-%20withSupremeCourtofNSWseal.docx, which doesn't contain that text, but lists Dr Sharat Lal as the 4th defendant.
Ruwantha Weerakkody
Avoid
Key details
Roberto D'Angelo
Sites
reddit
- have you been treated by Roberto D'Angelo? by Gray_58 in 2023 - "for context he traumatised me, so I guess I'm looking for people in similar situations... I would never wish what I went through on another person but it does feel good that I'm not alone... when I saw him I was 15, and he has a policy of never affirming trans kids' gender identity. he misgendered me, he let my mum sit in every session spouting her transphobia and basically agreeing with everything she said about like social contagion, just a phase etc. told me I thought I was trans because I didn't like gender roles. then he told me not to talk about dysphoria essentially so we could find the 'real problem'. I started self harming and dissociating and he showed no signs that he cared and he didn't give me any skills/techniques to help with that. as soon as I started presenting femme he told me I didn't need therapy anymore. really messed me up and made me feel like I needed to be cis to be loveable, especially to be loveable to my parents."
- see reply "Traumatic, it's been a year since i stopped going and am only just at the point where i can start trusting therapists again.
I was coerced in to seeing him through my parents asking me to get an ADHD diagnosis (not through him). He was the only ADHD prescribing psychiatrist available without an 18 month waitlist. Outside of writing my ADHD prescription, not once did he ask about my struggles related to ADHD. I found out later that he had a few sessions with my parents before ever taking to me." by wet_rhinarium
- see reply "I have. He manipulated me when I was 17 into seeing him every week whilst charging an exorbitant fee. He didn't properly address my problems (ADHD, drug abuse and bipolar-like symptoms) through therapy. He instead prescribed medication very frequently and even prescribed addictive stimulants whilst I was highly prone to addiction. In hindsight he had a very shallow personality and was very manipulative over all" by not_eets
- see reply "...three years ago I was a patient of his for almost a year. I was isolated from my entire family and convinced that I wasn't supposed to be trans even though i was and that I was being abused which caused it. He gave me false statistics and used scare tactics that left me crying after every session. Seeing these comments I have never felt so heard. Thank you people of reddit for sharing this. :) I've fully transitioned now and I've never ever been happier. I'm so glad he was wrong"
- Are you considering detransition? Need support? by LostInTransitionSyd in 2020
Papers
Roberto D'Angelo is one of the key people behind the attack on trans kids at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne. Anti-trans hate group Binary Australia reports in 2020
Sydney psychiatrist Roberto D’Angelo, has joined with 5 other psychiatrists, to express concern and doubt over radical trans treatments for young people.
and refers to an earlier aticle in the Australian
Dr D’Angelo is one of six psychiatrists to put their names to a letter in the journal BMJ Open. “Are families actually told, ‘we’re still not sure this (affirmative model) treatment is the best way to treat gender dysphoria’?”
There is concern about possible social contagion in rapidly increasing numbers of teenagers, chiefly girls, declaring trans identity with no childhood hint of gender confusion, and undergoing novel treatments with puberty- blocker drugs, cross-sex hormones and sometimes surgery.
2022 Lawsuit against Sydney psych Patrick Toohey
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The AGE newspaper
- ‘Absolutely devastating’: woman sues psychiatrist over gender transition - "...Langadinos says that around November 3, 2016 – four years after her hysterectomy and during psychiatric treatment provided by Dr Roberto D’Angelo – she “came to the realisation that she should not have undergone the hormone therapy or the first and second surgeries”... Solicitor Anna Kerr, of NSW’s Feminist Legal Clinic, who referred Langadinos’ case to legal firm Slater and Gordon, believes the legal action is “likely to be the tip of the iceberg”."
The "Feminist Legal Clinic"
City Of Sydney has announced that they will cut funding to the the Feminist Legal Clinic and turf them out of their council-owned premises in Glebe, where they have been tenants since 2017. This, following numerous complaints levelled at the service provider relating to transphobic material posted on both its website and social media channels.
https://www.starobserver.com.au/news/city-of-sydney-serves-eviction-notice-to-transphobic-feminist-legal-clinic/204768
A “gender-critical” feminist legal service which refused to remove material from its website that is offensive to trans people has had its tenancy grant terminated by the City of Sydney, in a dispute between a group of radical feminists and the trans community and its allies.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/feminist-legal-clinic-evicted-for-posting-anti-trans-website-links-20210723-p58cfu.html
Genspect
Genspect is an anti-trans organisation dedicated to preventing trans youth accessing care, and instead promote conversion therapy, or as they like to put it
Genspect is an international alliance of parent and professional groups whose aim is to advocate for parents of gender-questioning children and young people. Parents are concerned that their kids are not receiving appropriate treatment and support; many do not feel free to speak out about their concerns.
Conversion therapy is a horrific practice with serious long term consequences, including suicide
- https://www.hrc.org/resources/the-lies-and-dangers-of-reparative-therapy - "So-called “conversion therapy,” sometimes known as “reparative therapy,” is a range of dangerous and discredited practices that falsely claim to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity or expression. Such practices have been rejected by every mainstream medical and mental health organization for decades, but due to continuing discrimination and societal bias against LGBTQ people, some practitioners continue to conduct conversion therapy. Minors are especially vulnerable, and conversion therapy can lead to depression, anxiety, drug use, homelessness, and suicide."
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_therapy
Genspect are connected with the ban of medical care to transgender children Florida
Genspect aim to ban transition for adults
TransSafety.Network - "Trans Safety Network is an initiative to gather data on anti-transgender hate materials and track these sorts of campaigns, in order to understand their prevalence and impact, as well as raise awareness about them, and reveal these for what they are."
- https://transsafety.network/posts/segm-uncovered - "O'Malley is also the founder of an organisation called Genspect, who featured other SEGM members Lisa Marchiano, Sasha Ayad and Roberto D'Angelo during their launch events timed for different time zones."
Under conferences we see their connection with Lisa Littman who invented the discredited ROGD.
On November the 20th, Genspect will be hosting a conference on Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria, or ‘ROGD’. This event will unite groundbreaking professionals at the heart of the debate around gender: Dr. David Bell, ex-governor at the UK’s Tavistock & Portman NHS Trust; Dr. Lisa Littman, author of the seminal 2018 study on ROGD; and Genspect’s founder, psychotherapist and bestselling author Stella O’Malley."
https://genspect.org/conferences
Genspect Team, https://genspect.org/team/
- Roberto D’Angelo
- Stella O’Malley
- 2022 - Leaked audio confirms Genspect director as anti-trans conversion therapist targeting youth - "Recorded audio of a Twitter Space from 2021 was released on YouTube last week as part of an ongoing feud between Genspect affiliates and self-proclaimed “gender industry abolitionists” who aim to eliminate all forms of gender affirming care. Within the Space Stella O’Malley, a prominent psychotherapist in Ireland facing allegations of conversion therapy and the director of Genspect (among other groups), reveals that she has made it her life mission to prevent trans youth from accessing any form of gender affirming care. In doing so, she inadvertently confesses to seeking to suppress or change trans youth’s gender identity, the very definition of gender identity change efforts (GICE, i.e. conversion therapy/practices),[1] despite her past denials."
- 2021 - YouTube 'Conversion therapy' bill: Stella O'Malley - Psychotherapist by
familyfirstnz (right wing religous lobby group) - "She is an expert on Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria - the epidemic of youth coming out as trans 'out of the blue' due to social contagion and mental illness." - See ROGD under Lisa Littman
- 2020 - Graham Linehan calls for list of Irish 'gender critical' therapists for trans children in gcn, "Psychotherapist and public speaker, Stella O’Malley, aims to create a list of therapists for parents with transgender children. She has previously written a chapter for the anti-trans book Inventing Transgender Children, which portrays transgender people as an ideology and ‘dangerous’. After Linehan showed his support, she posted, “I hate the phrase gender critical but I am making a list!", according to wikipedia "Graham Linehan is an Irish television writer and anti-transgender activist."
- Abigail Shrier
- Lisa Littman - inventor of the discredited Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria (ROGD)
If the nature and intent of these people is not clear enough already, Genspect is holding a conference on ROGD (Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria) on 20 November 2021 - also known as the annual date of Trans Day of Rememberance
Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) was started in 1999 by transgender advocate Gwendolyn Ann Smith as a vigil to honor the memory of Rita Hester, a transgender woman who was killed in 1998. The vigil commemorated all the transgender people lost to violence since Rita Hester's death, and began an important tradition that has become the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance.
https://www.glaad.org/tdor
Health Liberation Now!
- https://healthliberationnow.com - "Health Liberation Now! is a free, trans-run resource analyzing the social and political forces acting in opposition to health liberation for transgender, detransitioned, retransitioned, and gender diverse people, as well as those questioning their gender. We pair these analyses with collections of proactive resistance strategies that community organizers can use in pursuit of trans health liberation."
Dr Patrick Clarke
https://www.ranzcp.org/college-committees/offices-and-branches/south-australia/contacts - Branch Chair, Dr Patrick Clarke, RANZCP South Australia Branch, PO Box 103, Fullarton SA 5063, Australia. Note this is the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists which is "the principal organisation representing the medical specialty of psychiatry in Australia and New Zealand and has responsibility for training, examining and awarding the qualification of Fellowship of the College (FRANZCP) to medical practitioners."
https://genspect.org/meet-the-team/advisory-board - "Dr Patrick Clarke has been a Consultant Psychiatrist for 26 years... He has been actively involved in the Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists at both the state and binational level, sitting on a number of Committees and taking on leadership positions. He has experience in setting up services and systems for the College, and in both the private and public sector. He has been affiliated with Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine since 2020.", archive here
https://beyondtrans.org/therapists/directory/patrick-clarke
https://www.transgendermap.com/issues/psychiatry/patrick-clarke
https://genderminorities.com/2024/04/22/concerns-about-canberra-conference-conversion-practices - Concerns about Canberra conference: conversion practices, "We are concerned that an upcoming conference organised by The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) may promote conversion practices against transgender people, and that attendees may then carry out illegal conversion practices in Aotearoa... We refer to Session 2D, Monday, by Alison Clayton, Roberto D’Angelo, and Patrick Clarke, as listed on your programme... "
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- SEGM and Genspect - active in Australia by NoisyCorella in 2024 - "In an important new development, the Southern Poverty Law Centre in the U.S. has just added the Society for Gender Based Medicine (SEGM) and Genspect to their current list of anti-LGBTQ hate groups."
- https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/anti-lgbtq - "The conferences were sponsored by the Idaho-based Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine (SEGM) and Genspect – key hubs of anti-LGBTQ+ pseudoscience identified in the SPLC’s CAPTAIN report. SEGM’s New York meeting, held Oct. 10-11, 2023, featured appearances by some researchers employed as “expert witnesses” by the anti-LGBTQ hate group Alliance Defending Freedom. Some of these “expert witnesses” have been key to crafting anti-trans legal narratives. Genspect’s Denver meeting, held Nov. 4-5, 2023, featured many of the same participants, but included members of more anti-LGBTQ+ groups including Do No Harm and Child & Parental Rights Campaign as well as notable voices of the far right including James Lindsay. Both conferences represent an attempt by the groups to position themselves as legitimate alternatives to the World Professional Organization for Transgender Health (WPATH) – which represents the global consensus around the benefits of gender-affirming health care – despite their anti-LGBTQ+ extremism."
SEGM
Roberto D’Angelo is an advisor to SEGM, another group similar to Genspect.
Gender Analysis provides info on this group and what they are doing
OHealth Liberation Now!
reddit
Beyond Trans
Another hate group of "professionals", associated with Genspect
https://www.transgendermap.com/issues/regret/beyond-trans
Mechelen D’Souza
Avoid
reddit
- Need a vibe check on the work trans consultant!! in 2023 - "So I've come out to my bosses and they've engaged the help of a consultant psych to help make a plan for my coming out more fully at work... So I was given two articles to consider: Detransition: a Real and Growing Phenomenon..." this is from anti-trans hate group SEMG, and "The man I am trying to be is not me Roberto D'Angelo... ", D'Angelo is anti-trans activist psychiatrist who is part of genspect, another anti trans thate group. More details elsewhere on this page.
Tracie O'Keefe
Terrible reviews.
Sydney Morning Herald
- reply to Re: Experienced Therapist in Sydney? by caitlin_adams in 2010
- Be careful what the doctor may have ordered in 2005 - "But there is a catch. She is no ordinary doctor. Her doctorate comes from a hypnotherapy institute in California. As for her professorship, it is held at Calamus International University, an internet extension college. This "university" was founded in the British West Indies, where any business can call itself a university, says George Brown, a consultant to the Australian Universities Quality Agency. ... Dr O'Keefe, who runs courses in various therapies, was offering credit towards degrees and doctorates at that same internet extension college until earlier this year, when the NSW Department of Education and Training asked her to stop."
Pansy Lai
Avoid.
Key details
reddit
Other
- news.com.au Anti same-sex marriage campaigner Pansy Lai promotes conversion therapy in 2017 - "ONE of the women who appears in the controversial ‘vote no’ television advertisement campaign against same-sex marriage has been calling on the Chinese-Australian community to oppose same-sex marriage for months — spreading misleading information about gay people, and even promoting conversion therapy."
YouTube
Other
Northern Territory
None?
Queensland
Parents of Gender Diverse Children
Princess Alexandra Hospital
I don't know if they have any trans services, but there's a story worth reading if you need emergency services there.
Key details
reddit
Ashley van Houten
Ket details
- 5B/3 Alison St, Surfers Paradise QLD 4217
Sites
https://transcendsupport.com.au/resources/queensland/
reddit
Belinda Birtles
Location
Sites
Jani Forest-Wyatt
Location
Sites
Jodie Housman
Location
Sites
Other
Denise Abreu
Location
Sites
Heidi Jansen
Sites
Morris Bersin
Key details
- Consultant Psychiatrist
- The Evandale Practice, Evandale Place Level1, Suite2, 142 Bundall Rd, Bundall, QLD 4217
reddit
Other
Mahsa Davari
Key details
- Consultant Psychiatrist
- The Evandale Practice, Evandale Place Level1, Suite2, 142 Bundall Rd, Bundall, QLD 4217
- Helix Health Specialist Clinic, 129 Olsen Avenue, Labrador, 4215, Gold Coast, Queensland
reddit
Other
Olivia Donaghy
Location
Sites
Other
Paul Pun
Location
Sites
reddit
Review sites
Peter Hengstberger
Location
Sites
Susan Davies
Location
Sites
Helen Hoey
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reddit
Other
Diana Hamilton
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susans
- reply to Gender Therapist in Brisbane Australia by Asfsd4214 in 2011 - "More to the point however, I would recommend strongly that nobody seeking gender therapy consult with Dr Diana Hamilton in Sunnybank. She believes in RLT before HRT, and has profoundly warped and incorrect views."
Nikita (Nik) Kotlarov
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reddit
Review sites
Aaron Osmachenko
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reddit
Other
Jim Rodney
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reddit
YouTube
There's a really bad review of Dr Jim Rodney on one of the Australian trans Facebook groups.
His full name is Dr James Maurice Rodney
Legal
- Health Ombudsman v Rodney[2021] QCAT 277 - "Pursuant to section 107(2)(b)(iii) of the Health Ombudsman Act 2013 (Qld), the Tribunal decides that the respondent has behaved in a way that constitutes professional misconduct... Pursuant to section 107(3)(c) of the Health Ombudsman Act 2013 (Qld), the respondent is required to pay a fine in the sum of $30,000 to the Health Ombudsmen within 28 days... Pursuant to section 102 of Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal Act 2009 (Qld), the respondent is to pay the applicant’s costs of and incidental to the proceedings as agreed in the sum of $75,000 within 28 days."
- https://www.psychsearch.net/james-rodney - "A BRISBANE psychiatrist with “a distinguished career”, who became a beneficiary in the wills of an elderly ex-patient and her sister, has been reprimanded for professional misconduct... Dr Rodney, 72, who has been a psychiatrist for 48 years, is director of a mood disorder unit at New Farm Clinic and is a clinical senior lecturer at University of Queensland."
Other
Tania Marshall
Avoid.
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reddit
Tony Attwood
Avoid
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reddit
Binary Australia
Other
Jennifer Wilson
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reddit
- Good therapist in Brisbane by evie_kitty in 2022 - "Avoid Benchmark Psychology, especially Dr Jennifer Wilson. The moment I came out as Trans femme she kept insisting that I was going through a phase and proceeded to hand wave my suicidal ideation related to my gender dysphoria... I'm a psychology student so I know what the psychologist did was wrong and exceptionally dangerous. Despite most practices openly advertising as LGBTQ friendly, it's unfortunately only for aesthetic purposes."
Eleanor Tan
Key details
- Senior Clinical Psychologist
- https://www.cfhp.com.au/team/eleanor-tan
- Centre for Human Potential Psychology and Counselling.
- 154 Ipswich Road Woolloongabba QLD 4102
- Level 8, 288 Edward Street Brisbane QLD 4000
reddit
Michelle Hellyer
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reddit
- My experience getting on HRT. by zorbyte in 2023 - "I had 2 appointments with my psychiatrist, a month apart. They consisted of her interrogating me, asking me how I figured out I had incongruencies with my body and gender identity, in which she even took the opportunities to gaslight me and say they were gender stereotypes I was striving for and it is an invalid material measure on the matter of gender dysphoria (ie shaving my legs or wearing feminine clothes). She was insistent I should social transition for at least a year before getting HRT. She wrote back to Dr. Rhys saying that my desire to medically transition was an autistic hyperfixation and it should not be indulged. She also put me on a waiting list for a gender specialising psychiatrist, which has a waiting list until August."
Review sites
Steven Stankevicius
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reddit
- Complaint about psychiatrist Dr. Steven Stankevicius by whererosegoes in 2023 - "'m here to write about my experiences with Dr. Steven Stankevicius who I believe to be promoting thinly veiled transphobia. I've been sitting on this for a while. They present themselves as a reasonable 'classical liberal' in their own words. I noticed they had other transgender patients too. They set back my journey several months through transphobia.I'm going to leaving a Google review on the clinic they work at: Dr Steven Stankevicius promotes thinly veiled transphobia. When I first brought up wanting to explore my gender, they recommended me the book 'The End of Gender' by Debra Soh, a TERF. In the past, they had professed themself to dislike "wokeness". Most recently when I saw them, I brought up the safety and low risk of transition, and they seriously disagreed, bringing up regret rates. This is a transphobic talking point, regret rates are incredibly low."
South Australia
Georgina Cheng
Dr Sites
reddit
Norman Shum
reddit
Sorèl Coward
Sites
reddit
Georgie Swift
Location
- Women's and Children's Hospital, 72 King William Rd, North Adelaide SA 5006
Sites
reddit
Melanie Turner
Location
Sites
Selma van Diest
Location
Sites
reddit
Rob Lyons
Retiring in July 2022.
Key details
- 138 Fullarton Road, Rose Park SA 5067
reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/transgenderau/wiki/resources-sa
Other links
Carmel Wauchope
Key details
reddit
Other
Sharifa Syed
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reddit
Alex Jolly
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reddit
Amel Hmam
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reddit
Other
Edina Osenk
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reddit
Other
Madeline Rowell
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reddit
Bridget Warnes
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- Psychiatrist
- Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service - Paradise (CAMHS)
reddit
Tina Fitzgerald
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reddit
Other
Business
Tasmania
Brad Mertens
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reddit
Emily Parkinson
Key details
reddit
Jason Westwater
Location
- Melbourne - see the other entry
- Hobart
reddit
Other
Victoria
https://www.vicinclusivepractitioners.com - "This is a list of therapists and health practitioners in Victoria, Australia, who have expertise, training, and/or lived experience in various marginalised social groups. This includes LGBTQIA+, neurodiversity, sex work, kink and BDSM, non-monogamy, immigrant and/or asylum seeker, disability, specific ethnicity and/or religion, and other elements of identity or practice."
Minors
reddit
Monash
There's more information on Monash on the HRT page.
Alice Hucker
Sites
Birgit Mumelter
Sites
Stefan
reddit
Alicia Allanson
Location
- 1st Floor Hawthorn Road, Caulfield North, VIC 3161
Sites
reddit
Beata Geddes
Clinical Psychologist.
Location
Sites
reddit
Jason Westwater
Location
- Melbourne
- Hobart - see the other entry
Sites
reddit
ABC News
https://transitioningdownunder.com/post/87681349366/jason-westwater
Ben Callegari
Location
Sites
reddit
Clare Weightman
Northside Clinic?
reddit
Jonathan Tandos
Location
Sites
reddit
Papers
Other
Jaco Erasmus
Location
reddit
Fintan Harte
Location
reddit
Other
Christopher Pepping
Key details
reddit
Alicia Allanson
Key details
reddit
Matthew Csabonyi
Key details
reddit
The Royal Children’s Hospital
Location
- Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, 50 Flemington Road, Parkville VIC 3052
Sites
Campbell Paul
Carmen Pace
Tram Nguyen
Madeline Fernbach
Location
- Sound Psychology Ballarat, Level 2, 3 Peel St, Ballarat VIC 3350
Sites
reddit
Other links
Daniel Barnes
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Michael Theodorus
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Other
Belinda Jude
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reddit
Other links
Laura Gorrie
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reddit
Other
Catherine Bull
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reddit
Ashley Brown
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reddit
Matthew Shaw
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reddit
Other
Sarah Schepisi
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reddit
Claire Fricke
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reddit
Western Australia
Amanda O'Donovan
I'm told she no longer works at Murcoch University and is now at SHQ (Sexual Health Quarters).
Location
- Murdoch University, Perth
Sites
Carol Morgan
Location
Sites
Christine Battle
Location
- Perth Children's Hospital, 15 Hospital Avenue, Nedlands
Sites
Linda Welsh
Key details
- 2/105 Broadway, Nedlands WA 6009
reddit
Daniel Parker
Location
Sites
David Parrick
Location
Sites
Lisa D'Souza
Location
Sites
Hannelie Scheffer
Location
Sites
Hans-willem van Hall
Location
- Perth Children's Hospital
Sites
Jaini Shah
Location
- West Leederville, Perth WA 6007
Sites
Kellie Dedman
Location
Sites
Juliette Lovell
Location
Sites
reddit
Nicole Albrecht
Location
Sites
Noel Hyland
Location
Sites
Rachel Andrews
Key details
reddit
Russell Date
Location
reddit
Other
Suzanne Calver
Location
Sites
Sam Winter
Location
Sites
Helen Bradley
Key details
Other
Yael Perry
Location
- Telethon Kids Institute, Perth Children's Hospital, Nedlands WA
Sites
Fiona Greatorex
Key details
- 4/ 5 Murdoch Drv, Mandurah, WA 6210, Australia
reddit
Halinka Healy
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reddit
Della Commons
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reddit
Lauren Grayson
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reddit
Vanessa Watson
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reddit
Debra Roberts
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reddit
Michelle Saleeba
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reddit
Raileen Merlino
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reddit
Geetha Menon
I've seens a couple of references saying she has written HRT letters.
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Shenooka Nanthakumar
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reddit
Peel Health Campus
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reddit
John Forbes
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reddit
- reply to do i have to worry about "conversion therapy"? by owonekowo - "My mum isn’t religiously but she is very conservative(?) I guess? She found this psychologist and he was the most damaging psychologist I ever had the unpleasant experience of meeting. I was barely 18 and he basically convinced me to discuss my sexual fantasies with him even though I was uncomfortable with this. He told me, “you should be seeing yourself in the female position” in sex fantasies. He’d have this creepy smirk on his face when he would listen to me… he complimented me on how feminine I looked (after I expressed suicidal tendencies and begged to me voluntarily admitted to a psych ward as I was worried I’d take my own life, he looked at me as if “oh man, that’s too much paperwork” and told me, “hang in there”) and he was confused when I got upset. Mum thought YT was “good for me” because of the fact I’d be inconsolably crying under my computer desk after the sessions, she thought it meant “he was getting to the root of the issue” instead of just “agreeing with me and giving me what I want.” Parents just don’t get it. I dropped him after that."
Helena Piirto
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reddit
- reply to do i have to worry about "conversion therapy"? by owonekowo - "When I was 20, I found a psychiatrist who pushed the narrative that “brain studies show the decision-making part of the brain doesn’t mature until 25, so therefore I am not comfortable signing you off on medically transitioning”... She instead decided to treat my “symptoms” of gender dysphoria as if it were depression and prescribed me anti-depressants... I decided to take the anti-depressants anyway to see if they’d work and it was horrible, if anything, it made my suicidal ideation even worse."
The Australian
Perth Royal Hospital
reddit
Review sites
Sandra Basham
reddit
Emma Briggs
Key details
reddit
- reply to Places to start HRT in Perth? by LeUpboatLeFedora in 2022 - "Whatever you do avoid Emma Briggs as, despite a few places listing her as a trans ally, she tried to diagnose me with autogynephilia and asked me to get 3 psychologist referrals (who then said they can't tell me who I am, understandably)"
https://www.ratemds.com/doctor-ratings/dr-emma-briggs-perth-wau-au - "Emma Briggs is suggested as a trans ally however when I saw her 4 years ago she permanently delayed my transition through a year of "maybe next appointment"ing me, made me come out to my family before I was ready, repeatedly insisted that I present female full-time before I was comfortable - all before revealing that she still operates off the outdated method of needing multiple psychologist referrals before she'd pass me onto a endocrinologist. Luckily since I've found a better psychiatrist and am fully comfortable with who I am and am living a much happier life. I just wish I never bothered spending so much money and time seeing Emma." in 2021
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