Clinical Practice:
A/Prof Davinder Hans is a WA trained doctor and psychiatrist who is committed to individualised care and formulating collaborative treatment plans that incorporate patient values and goals. Davinder also works collaboratively with GPs and other health professionals to inform evidence-based treatment options for patients. He has had broad training in a range of disciplines including psychopharmacology and the psychotherapies.
Davinder utilises these skills in assessment and treatment of his patients. He ensures that medications prescribed are appropriate and necessary.
With a background in youth mental health, Davinder is an enthusiastic advocate for early intervention and teaches patients practical and user-friendly emotional regulation and anxiety management skills.
Davinder also has experience in adult mental health, particularly treatment resistant mood and anxiety disorders with associated complex comorbidities.
He is skilled in both complex psychopharmacology and long term psychotherapy, and works effectively with patients to achieve collaborative treatment goals.
Davinder’s warm and approachable nature, always open to hearing another perspective, helps to put patients at ease and builds their confidence in their treatment.
Background & Training
FRANZCP, Cert Psychotherapy Psych., MSc Affect Neuro (The Netherlands), MSc Youth Mental Health (Melbourne), Euro Cert Mood & Anxiety Disorders (Italy)., Grad Cert Autism Diag (UWA)., MBBS (UWA).
Davinder graduated in medicine from the University of Western Australia and completed his Postgraduate Training in Psychiatry in Western Australia.
He has done further Masters level training in Mood & Anxiety Disorders (University of Maastricht, The Netherlands), Youth Mental Health (University of Melbourne) and Psychotherapy (RANZCP Cert Psychotherapy Psych). Further, Davinder has completed a Graduate Certificate in Autism assessment.
Davinder has been credentialed for rTMS treatment by the Black Dog Institute, Sydney. He is also accredited in workers compensation assessments in Western Australia and NSW, and is a Certified Independent Medical Examiner by the American Board of Independent Medical Examiners.
He has an academic appointment at University of Notre Dame Australia. Davinder has published research articles in psychiatry journals, is the first author of the chapter on Anxiety Disorders (Chapter 8) in the Australian text, Foundations of Clinical Psychiatry 4th Edition 2017, and he has written academic material for undergraduate psychiatry teaching.
Davinder is the chair of the RANZCP (WA) Branch Continuous Professional Development (CPD) committee and is a member of the binational RANZCP CPD committee as well as the Chair of the Binational RANZCP rTMS CPD committee. He is also an accredited psychotherapy supervisor and is involved in postgraduate Psychiatry education and supervision for Trainee Psychiatrists in Western Australia.
Davinder has a private practice at Hollywood Private Hospital where he is the director of the Trauma Program and the Youth Program and in the public sector, he is the Director of Youth Psychiatry in WACHS.