Dr Catherine Curson is a psychiatrist and fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatry. She specialises in providing care for adults suffering from a range of mental health disorders.
She works with people who have long-standing, difficult to treat depression and can use long-term talk therapy to uncover the reasons for people’s anxiety and depression. Dr Curson also has experience helping people with schizophrenia and bipolar affective disorder.
Dr Curson works with adults to treat the following conditions:
- Adjustment disorder
- Anxiety disorders
- Autistic Spectrum Disorder and other developmental disorders
- Bipolar affective disorder
- Depression
- Early psychosis
- Experiences of childhood abuse and trauma
- Obsessive compulsive disorder
- Postnatal depression
- Post traumatic stress disorder
- Schizophrenia
- ADHD
Dr Curson uses the following treatment modalities:
- Medication
- Short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy
- Long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy using self-psychology principles and mentalisation based psychotherapy
