Celeste Hoopmann
Dr. Celeste Hoopmann
Dr Celeste Hoopmann
Consultant PsychiatristMBBS, MPM, FRANZCPDr Hoopmann consults on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays
Professional Background / Experience
- Medical Degree gained from University of Adelaide
- Completed Internship at The Royal Adelaide Hospital prior to general year of Residency in Melbourne through Western Health that included rotations in Obstetrics and Emergency Paediatrics
- Specialist Psychiatric training predominantly through North Western Mental Health: included six-month rotation with Werribee Mercy Mother Baby Unit Outpatient Team
- Final year of Fellowship completed at The Royal Women's Hospital Centre for Women's Mental Health with key focus on perinatal mental health
- Master of Psychiatry completed through The University of Melbourne
- Joint appointment as Consultant Psychiatrist at the Monash Perinatal and Infant Inpatient Unit and with the Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Team
- Participated in teaching program for Monash University Medical Students, and Monash Psychiatry Trainees, in the area of perinatal mental health
- Returned to The Royal Women's Hospital as a Consultant Psychiatrist with The Centre for Women's Mental Health
- Honorary Lecturer for University of Melbourne in Perinatal Psychiatry for Medical Students and participants of Master of Psychiatry Perinatal Selective
- Received Master of Psychiatry Teaching Award in Perinatal Psychiatry (2019)
- Co-presented at The Australasian Marce' Conference:
- Symposium for Australian public mother-baby units and models of perinatal mental health care (2016)
- Feeding Disorders of Infancy: A Case Presentation (2017)
- Attended the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families in London for further training on two occasions:
- Mentalization in Practice; Working with Parents and Babies and- Principles and Practice of Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy
Professional Interests
- All aspects of Perinatal Psychiatry, from pre-conception through to early adjustment to parenthood
- Helping to ideally prevent, or facilitate early detection and treatment of mental illnesses that may arise through the peripartum period
- Psychotropic medication during pregnancy and breastfeeding
- Relationship issues throughout the transition to parenthood
- Implementing support to help nurture parent-infant attachment
- Therapeutic support for grief associated with infertility and perinatal loss.
Treatments offered include:
- Individual and parent-infant psychotherapy throughout the perinatal period
- Couples therapy where indicated in transitioning to parenthood
- Medication review during the pre-conception, pregnancy, and post-partum period
Personal Interests Outside of Work
Outside of work Celeste spends the majority of her time enjoying her young family. She is also an avid traveller, and relishes in visits back to The Barossa Valley where she was born and raised.
