About Family Matters Psychiatry
Family Matters Psychiatry was established in 2017 by Dr Yumna Dhansay, a child and adolescent psychiatrist and forensic psychiatrist based in Sydney. She has been a specialist psychiatrist since 2004 and is a fellow of both the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) and the College of Psychiatrists of South Africa. She has worked as a consultant psychiatrist in New South Wales, Western Australia, United Kingdom and South Africa.
Dr Dhansay undertook subspecialty training in child and adolescent psychiatry and holds certification of advanced training in this field from both colleges. She also holds a master’s degree in child and adolescent psychiatry (MPhil) from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She has additional subspecialty training in forensic psychiatry and holds the certificate of advanced training from the RANZCP and a master’s degree in forensic mental health (MFMH) from the University of New South Wales (UNSW). She is a member of the RANZCP Faculty of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, RANZCP Faculty of Forensic Psychiatry, RANZCP Section of Perinatal and Infant Psychiatry and a member of the Bi-national Section of Child and Adolescent Forensic Psychiatry Committee.
With training in both child and adolescent psychiatry and forensic psychiatry, Dr Dhansay has a unique skill set ideally suited to providing holistic medicolegal assessments of children, adolescents and their parents.
Dr Dhansay also works in the public health sector as a visiting psychiatrist to one of the Youth Justice Centres in the greater Sydney area where she provides psychiatric treatment to young people in custody, and as a visiting perinatal and infant psychiatrist to Karitane. In the past, she held appointments as a staff specialist child and adolescent psychiatrist in the South East Sydney Local Health District where she assessed and treated children, adolescents and their families in both community and inpatient settings, and as a staff specialist adolescent forensic psychiatrist for the Justice Health and Forensic Mental Health Network where she provided consultation to the Adolescent Court Liaison Service and conducted state-wide adolescent forensic risk assessments.
Dr Dhansay holds an academic appointment as a conjoint lecturer with the School of Psychiatry at UNSW where she is actively involved in undergraduate medical teaching and examination. She regularly supervises doctors completing specialist psychiatry training with the RANZCP and is an examiner for the RANZCP. She is a reviewer for the peer reviewed medical journal, Australasian Psychiatry.
Qualifications:
MBChB, FC(Psych), MPhil (Child Adol Psych), FRANZCP, Cert Child Adol Psych, Cert Forensic Psych, MFMH
