Ramsay Clinic Hollywood
Hollywood Private Hospital
Dr Richard Clarke is a WA trained doctor and psychiatrist who is committed to individualised care and formulating collaborative treatment plans that incorporate patient values and goals. Richard utilises a broad range of approaches in treatment including psychopharmacology and psychotherapies. He has a particular interest in child and adolescent psychiatry, including ADHD and eating disorders, and in adult psychiatry. He is also the Clinical Lead of the Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) Program and Outpatient Eating Disorders Program.
Suite 306
Hollywood Consulting Centre, 91 Monash Avenue
Nedlands, WA, 6009
08 9389 9617
08 6323 1086
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Dr Richard Clarke is a WA trained doctor and psychiatrist who is committed to individualised care and formulating collaborative treatment plans that incorporate patient values and goals. Richard utilises a broad range of approaches in treatment including psychopharmacology and psychotherapies.
Richard’s collaborative approach in assessment and management ensures that medications prescribed are appropriate and necessary. Richard welcomes a team based liaison with practitioners for optimal patient management.
With extensive work in child & adolescent and in youth mental health, Richard advocates for early intervention and has a strong focus on hope in a patient’s recovery journey.
He is skilled in both complex psychopharmacology and long term psychotherapy, and works effectively with patients to achieve collaborative treatment goals.
Background & Training
Richard graduated in medicine from the University of Western Australia and completed his Postgraduate Training in Psychiatry in Western Australia.
He has sought training in mood and anxiety disorders, child & adolescent mental health and youth mental health. He is also a Certified Independent Medical Examiner by the American Board of Independent Medical Examiners.
Richard has published research articles in psychiatry journals and has contributed to book chapters. He has also written academic material for undergraduate psychiatry teaching. Richard continues to provide teaching and supervision to medical students and psychiatry trainees and has an adjunct academic appointment.
Richard has a private practice at Hollywood Private Hospital where he is also the Clinical Lead of the Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) Program and Outpatient Eating Disorders Program. In the public sector, he has an appointment as a Consultant Psychiatrist at the Perth Children’s Hospital.