Dr Peter Heffernan (Psychiatrist)
- Name
- Dr Peter Lawrence Heffernan
- Qualifications
- MBBS 1979
- FRANZCP 1992
- Occupation
- Psychiatrist
- Gender
- Male
- Languages Spoken
- English
- Medical Specialties
- Psychiatry
While working as a Family Doctor, I became increasingly interested in the emotional lives of my patients to the point where I decided to specialise in Psychiatry. I am a long-standing member of the Victorian Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists and a member of the United Kingdom Adult ADHD Network ( UKAAN) I am experienced in the assessment and care of those with adulthood Attention Deficit Disorder, Anxiety, Depression, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Veterans Psychiatry, Chronic Pain Syndrome, Bipolar Disorder, Alcoholism and the Psychoses. I have extensive experience in therapy with patients with family and relationship issues, grief and loss, childhood trauma, workplace physical and emotional injury, including PTSD, and Veterans psychiatry. I offer Supervision in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy for Mental Health Professionals. I live on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, and work in private practice at Langwarrin, in Melbourne’s Southeast, and am Consultant Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist with Southeastern and The Valley Private Hospitals based in Melbourne’s South-East. I have a commitment to regional, rural and remote community mental health services. My personal interests include family, travel through regional and remote Australia, a home orchard and tending the backyard chooks.
- Hospital Affiliations
- Beleura Private Hospital
- Affiliated Clinics
- Peninsula Psychological Medicine
- Medical Conditions
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
- Alcohol dependence
- Drug addiction
- Anxiety disorder
- Dementia
- Eating disorder
- Mood disorder
- Obsessive–compulsive disorder
- Personality disorder
- Posttraumatic stress disorder
- Schizophrenia
- Sexual assault
- Tourette syndrome
- Tic disorder
- Populations Treated
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Elderly
- Indigenous
- Perinatal - infant and parent
- Young adult
- Topics
- Mental Health
- Psychotherapy
- ADHD - adult
- Chronic Pain
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Anxiety disorders
- Depression
- Bipolar Disorder
Practice Locations
VIC
- Peninsula Psychological Medicine
- Bulk Billing Accepted
- Open After Hours
- Address
- Peninsula Consulting Suites
Suite 6 35 Cranbourne-Frankston Rd
Langwarrin VIC 3910
Australia
- Phone
- 03 9789 0783
- Fax
- 03 9789 0784
