Dr Silver Budd is an Arts graduate of Sydney University and studied Medicine at Flinders University in Adelaide. She practiced as a GP prior to becoming a Consultant Psychiatrist with South Australian Health.
She has had experience in all aspects of mental health hospital and community care, including working in a specialist PTSD facility and a perinatal mental health unit.
Dr Budd treats adults experiencing the effects of mood and anxiety disorders, PTSD, complex trauma, grief and loss, life transitions. Her engagement with patients is informed by her background in somatic practices, meditation and mindful self-compassion. Dr Budd has an interest in psychodynamic psychotherapy, a form of talking therapy where therapist and patient explore the patient’s patterns of acting in the world, by paying attention together to the patient’s thoughts, dreams, images and feelings.