Professor Newman has an interest in Perinatal and Infant Mental Health and early life Psychological Interventions. She focuses on Womens Mental Health, support for early parenting and developmental difficulties of infants and young children. She is trained in Infant and Parent Psycho Dynamic Therapy.

Practices:
Ramsay Clinic Albert Road

Telehealth Available

Address:
Suite B
Melbourne VIC 3004

Call:
03 9256 8388

Fax:
03 9279 3552

Email:
SuiteB.ARC@ramsayhealth.com.au

Services:
Psychiatry
Psychiatry - Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry - GP Management Plans Item 291
Psychiatry - Parent and Infant
Psychiatry - Perinatal
Psychiatry - Psychotherapy
Psychiatry - Trauma/PTSD

Profile

Louise Newman AM is Professorial Fellow in Psychiatry at the University of Melbourne, Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at Newcastle University and Monash University. She has held senior leadership positions in mental health training and research including Director of the NSW Institute of Psychiatry, Director of the Monash University Centre for Developmental Psychiatry and Psychology and is Director of the Melbourne University BEAR (Building Early Attachment and Resilience) research program. She is recognised as Australia’s lead researcher in the areas of infant and early child mental health, disturbances of early parenting and parent-infant interventions. She has worked extensively in developing clinical programs for women with backgrounds of complex trauma and mental health issues needing support in the perinatal period and has over 25 years’ experience in women’s mental health. She is recognised as the leading international expert in the issues facing women with complex trauma disorder in pregnancy and the perinatal period. She is the past Director of the Centre for Women’s Mental Health at the Royal Women’s Hospital.  She is currently Consultant Psychiatrist at the Ramsay Clinic Albert Road specialising in women’s mental health and perinatal and infant mental health.

Interests

Perinatal and Infant Psychiatry and Women's Mental Health.