Services

Women’s Mental Health

Dr Meg Wardrop provides specialist psychiatric assessment and treatment for women between the ages of 16 and 65. Her practice covers the full range of women’s mental health, with particular focus on adolescence, early adulthood, pregnancy and parenthood, and menopause.

Her areas of clinical focus include:

  • Anxiety and depressive disorders

  • Trauma and PTSD

  • Eating disorders

  • Bipolar disorder

  • Schizophrenia and psychosis

Care is tailored to each individual, with attention to both mental health symptoms and the broader biological and social context.

Reproductive and Perinatal Psychiatry

Meg has extensive experience supporting women before, during and after pregnancy. This includes:

  • Preconception mental health planning, particularly for women on existing psychiatric medication

  • Mental health during pregnancy

  • Postnatal mood and anxiety disorders, including postnatal depression and birth-related trauma

  • Medication planning and review across pregnancy and breastfeeding

This is an area where evidence-based, women-specific care is often hard to access, particularly outside metropolitan centres. Meg works closely with general practitioners, midwives, GP obstetricians and obstetricians to coordinate care across pregnancy and the early postnatal period.

Hormonal Transitions

Dr Wardrop has a particular interest in mental health concerns related to hormonal change, including:
  • Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD)
  • Menopause-related mood and anxiety symptoms
  • Mood instability related to hormonal transitions

These presentations are often under-recognised and under-treated. Accurate diagnosis usually requires careful history-taking across the menstrual cycle or hormonal phase, and effective treatment may combine psychological as well as pharmacological (including hormonal treatments).

Telehealth Appointments

Dr Meg Wardrop offers telehealth appointments for women living across Australia. Telehealth can provide flexible access to specialist psychiatric care, particularly for those who may experience barriers to attending in-person appointments. The same Medicare rebates apply as for in-person consultations, provided there is a current GP referral.

Telehealth runs the same way as in-person appointments, over a secure video platform. Telehealth is available for assessment, ongoing management and shared care, where clinically appropriate.