Dr Wendy Jackson (Psychiatrist)
- Name
- Dr Wendy Frances Jackson
- Occupation
- Psychiatrist
- Gender
- Female
- Medical Specialties
- Psychiatry
Dr Wendy Jackson is a child and adolescent psychiatrist, in her 14th year of practice on the north coast. Dr Jackson is a medical specialist in the comprehensive assessment and management of school aged children and adolescents across a range of health issues such as anxiety, depression, emotional/behavioural difficulties, autism spectrum disorders, eating disorders and trauma.
Dr Jackson utilises a holistic approach, and combines modalities of supportive psychotherapy, cognitive-behaviour therapy, family therapy and psychopharmacology, and works in collaboration with other health and education specialists. Dr Jackson has a background in psychology and paediatrics, and taught as a lecturer/senior lecturer in clinical psychiatry at the University of Queensland and the University of Sydney. Dr Jackson has an interest in family therapy for the management of adolescents with eating disorders, and was a member of the working party who authored the Eating Disorders Toolkit. Dr Jackson previously worked in community psychiatry and in paediatric consultation-liaison psychiatry at Lismore.
- Affiliated Clinics
- Bangalow Health and Wellbeing
- Populations Treated
- Adolescent
- Child
- Indigenous
- Perinatal - infant and parent
- Perinatal - parent
- Young adult
- Topics
- ADHD - child
- Anxiety disorders
- Brain injuries
- Eating disorders
- Mood disorders
- Obsessive compulsive disorders
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress disorder
- Schizophrenia and related disorders
- Sexual assault/abuse - child
- Tourette and tic disorders
Practice Locations
NSW
- Bangalow Health and Wellbeing
- Address
- 88 Byron Street
Bangalow NSW 2479
Australia
- Phone
- 02 6687 2337
- Fax
- 02 6687 1048
