Dr. Rebecca Adams 

Dr. Rebecca Adams

Consultant Psychiatrist
MBBS, Affiliate Member RANZCP, Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology 
Professional Background / Experience
  • Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery, The University of Melbourne 
  • Trained in Psychiatry in the United States, with post-graduate studies in Psychotherapy and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Studied at the New York University Postgraduate Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
  • Diplomate of The American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology 2004
  • Affiliate Member, RANZCP
  • Member, the International Association for Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (IARPP) 
  • Supervised and lectured trainee psychiatrists in psychotherapy in Perth, WA
  • Over twenty years’ experience as a psychiatrist/psychotherapist in private practice 
Professional Interests
  • Adult mental health - our ‘difficulties in living’ – including issues of meaning and purpose
  • A special interest in the emerging treatments for trauma 
Treatments offered 
  • Psychodynamic and supportive psychotherapy 
  • Medication management when required 
Dr Adams works in a holistic framework. She considers that emotional healing happens within the trusted space of a therapeutic relationship. 

Personal Interests Outside of Work
Dr Adams enjoys live music, reading, writing, learning the piano, gardening, being with her family, walks in nature, and poetry. 

The Journey

One day you finally knew 
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice – 
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
“Mend my life!”
each voice cried. 
But you didn’t stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried 
with its stiff fingers 
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy 
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn 
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do –
determined to save 
the only life that you could save.

 - Mary Oliver