Mental Health Counseling
Dr. Rifat Jahan is a dedicated GP specialist now working exclusively in
Mental Health Counseling
. With extensive training and experience in mental health care, she has gained invaluable experience as a psychiatry registrar in the Hospital system, treating a diverse range of mental health patients across various settings. Dr. Jahan has focused on mental health within General Practice and earned her fellowship with the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. She is recognized as a Level 2 Mental Health Practitioner in Focused Psychological Strategies, providing psychotherapy and comprehensive care to adults, adolescents, and couples facing mental health challenges and life stresses.Dr. Jahan’s practice emphasizes personalized care encompassing assessment, management planning, medication prescription, and psychological treatments such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, motivational interviewing and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. She collaborates closely with patients’ general practitioners and specialists, ensuring holistic and integrated mental health support tailored to everyone’s needs. Her commitment to improving mental health extends beyond treatment, fostering a compassionate and supportive environment for her patients’ well-being and recovery.
Being a migrant herself, Dr. Jahan has a profound interest in migrant mental health. One of the key aspects of her work is addressing the stigma around mental health in migrant communities. Dr. Jahan delivers care that is both culturally and contextually appropriate, ensuring that the support provided is effective and respectful of the migrants’ backgrounds.
Special Interests:
Mental health Counseling: Specializes in providing psychotherapy and management for anxiety, depression, and other mental health conditions
Utilizes Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Motivational Interviewing, couple therapy, and relaxation strategies in her practice.
Provides both face-to-face and virtual health (telephone or video) consultations
Services Provided:
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Stress and burnout
- Relationship difficulties, intimate partner violence
- Trauma
- Grief and loss
- Adjustments to stressful life changes
- Counselling on weight management, smoking cessation, and other substance cessation using various methods such as CBT and motivational interviewing
- Wellbeing and self-care
- Social anxiety
- Difficult interpersonal relationships
- Fertility issues
- Family planning
- Antenatal and post-natal counselling for anxiety and depression
- Support for parental stress
- Carers’ mental health
- Relationship counselling including separation and divorce
Dr. Jahan does not do assessment and report related to third parties including TAC, Workcover, court (family court/ criminal court).
