Mental Illness

• Psychosis

• Anxiety disorders

• Adjustment Disorder

• Depressive disorders

• Personality Disorders

• Bipolar Affective Disorder

• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders

• Schizophrenia / Schizoaffective Disorder

Psych Fit Health Nurse Practitioners will work with you to manage your illness including holistic health, symptom and medication management.

Psych Fit Health Nurse Practitioners as part of supporting you will manage your medication needs (initial prescribing, medication reviews, repeat scripts, deprescribing, medication changes, side effect / adverse reaction management), give medical certificates, order and review pathology and provide total care for your mental health.

People in contact with the forensic system (police, legal, bail, remand, parole, custodial) experience significantly poorer mental and physical health than the general community. Although people with a mental illness are more often the victims of crime a significant percentage of people in contact with the forensic system are impacted by mental and or drug use disorder.

Psych Fit Health Nurse Practitioners have specialist knowledge and skills in the assessment and delivery of mental health care to people in contact with the forensic system including initial forensic assessment, diagnostic review, care planning and ongoing review and management. 

 Psych Fit Health Nurse Practitioners will complete letters of support, forensic mental health assessments and required reports for the legal system (courts, probation & parole etc). Extra fee dependent on requirements.

Intellectual Disability

Matthew has a special interest in and has completed further training in supporting people living with mild to moderate intellectual disability and comorbid mental illness.