Dr Sam Margis (Psychiatrist)
- Name
- Dr Samuel Margis
- Qualifications
- MBBS 1998
- Occupation
- Psychiatrist
- Gender
- Male
- Medical Specialties
- Psychiatry
- All aspects of Perinatal Psychiatry including, emotional hardships of preconception (including fertility treatment), and the antenatal and postnatal periods.
- Associated perinatal issues including relationship difficulties and perinatal loss and grief.
- Particular interest in ensuring early detection and intervention for postnatal depression and anxiety as well as difficulty with transition to parenthood without psychiatric illness.
- Experienced in an extensive range of Psychotherapeutic (talking therapy) approaches including, supportive, cognitive-behavioural, interpersonal and psychodynamic.
- Also expert in Pharmacological (medication) interventions when required – including during pregnancy and while breast-feeding.
- Dr. Margis is renowned for having a highly collaborative approach with his patients regarding choice of treatment empowering them to be central to the decision making process.
In May 2014 Dr. Margis was appointed a Board Member of the Mercy Health Foundation.
- Hospital Affiliations
- Masada Private Hospital
- Affiliated Clinics
- NEST Family Clinics
- Affiliated Organisations
- Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP)
- Medical Conditions
- Postnatal depression
- Perinatal loss and grief
- Medical Interventions
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Interpersonal Therapy (IPT)
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Populations Treated
- Perinatal - infant and parent
- Adult
- Topics
- Mental Health
Practice Locations
VIC
- NEST Family Clinics
- Address
- 289 Kooyong Road
Elsternwick VIC 3185
Australia
- Phone
- 1300 637 832
- Fax
- 03 9528 5883
