Meet our team of highly trained professionals
Connecting Minds Clinic specialise in meeting the mental health needs of clients of all age group as well as their families through medical management as well as individual and family therapy. We work with the client and their family as a unit to ensure not only effective recovery but also a recovery that is sustainable.
Dr Christopher Sulaksono is an experienced consultant psychiatrist. He completed his medical training at University of Melbourne in 2010. He is involved with the teaching and supervision of undergraduate and postgraduate medical students as he is also an honorary lecturer at Macquarie University. He is also an accredited supervisor for RANZCP trainees.
Dr Sulaksono is a Fellow of the Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists and a member of the Faculty of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He has previously worked for Royal North Shore Hospital, Hornsby Hospital, Macquarie Hospital, John Hunter Hospital, Calvary Mater Hospital where he gained experience working in both metropolitan and rural settings.
He has over 10 years of experience in the public and private sectors treating a range of mental health conditions including ADHD, anxiety and depression of patients across all age ranges. He has a special interest in individual psychotherapy, family therapy and has an advanced certificate of training in child and adolescent mental health. He also has a graduate diploma in family therapy.
He provides patients with a comprehensive mental health assessment and individualized treatment plan for each patient, ensuring that they achieve best outcomes.
He is currently working at Headspace Ashfield, Brookevale and Chatswood as well.
Dr Alex Chung is a consultant psychiatrist. He completed his medical training at the University of New South Wales.
Dr Chung then underwent psychiatry training, attaining Fellowship of the Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists. He has experience working in a range of rural and metropolitan settings, including Bloomfield Hospital (Orange) and Royal North Shore Hospital (Sydney). He has also worked in private hospital and public community mental health settings, and has experience in a range of mental health conditions including anxiety, depression, and ADHD.
Dr Chung also currently works as a Visiting Medical Officer at Bloomfield Hospital, and is an accredited supervisor for psychiatry trainees.
Dr Chung focuses on a patient-centred approach, with holistic consideration of biological, psychological, and social factors to guide the care of each patient.
Dr Willie Oe obtained his medical degree from the University of Western Australia in 2011.
Dr Oe is a Fellow of the Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists. He completed his specialist training in the Northern Sydney Local Health District and Central Adelaide Local Health Network. Dr Oe has 9 years of experience across a wide range of clinical settings in psychiatry. He previously worked at the Royal North Shore Hospital, Macquarie hospital, Greenwich hospital and Northside Clinic in Sydney, and at the Queen Elizabeth hospital and Glenside hospital in Adelaide. Most recently, Dr Oe was the clinical lead at the Bentley Assessment and Treatment Team.
Dr Oe’s areas of interests include adult ADHD, geriatric psychiatry, eating disorders and treatment resistant mood disorders. He practices psychiatry with a holistic and collaborative approach to achieve best possible outcomes for all patients.
Dr Lin is an experienced consultant Psychiatrist who provides comprehensive assessment and management plans with a focus on understanding the patient, their experiences and narrative. He has broad experience in treating adult mental health with special interest in adult ADHD, cultural mental health, OCD, PTSD and anxiety disorders. Besides Connecting Minds Clinic, he works in public settings mainly in community mental health.
He feels privileged to have been a witness to the triumph of human courage, strength, optimism and resilience over the vicissitudes of the human condition.
He believes that optimal mental health is necessary for one to thrive, contribute to the community, live with purpose and meaning, and enjoy wonderful personal relationships. He uses culturally informed and patient centred care combining medication and psychological therapy.
Dr Lin completed his medical degree from the University of Sydney and trained in Psychiatry at various hospitals throughout New South Wales and is a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists. His specialist training includes experience working in Psychiatric Emergency care, Consultation-Liaison, Child and Adolescent, Rehab, community and inpatient settings, as well as Addiction psychiatry in both public and private hospitals.
Dr Iman Eftekharzadeh Mashhadi is a Child and Adolescent Consultant Psychiatrist currently working as staff specialist at the Royal North Shore Hospital and Hornsby Hospital with the child and youth mental health service.
He completed his basic medical training in 2006 and obtained post graduate qualifications in General Practice from Royal Australian College of General Practice (RACGP) in 2016. He finished his Masters of Psychiatry from the University of Sydney in 2018. He is Fellow of the Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP), and he completed his psychiatry training at the Northern Sydney Hospital network. He has obtained his certificate of advanced training in child and adolescent psychiatry (Cert. Child Adol. Psych.) He is currently working in the early intervention service and outreach services in the community mental health team.
He has special interest in the assessment and treatment of anxiety, mood disorders, obsessive compulsive disorders and neurodevelopmental disorders including ADHD. He practices psychiatry with a holistic, trauma-informed, culturally-inclusive, recovery-oriented approach.
Dr Antony Moonjelly has a special interest in working with young people and families with cultural and linguistically diverse background. He has completed advanced training in child and adolescent psychiatry. He is an experienced doctor who completed his basic medical training in 2009 from the prestigious All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), which is a tertiary level centre of excellence in India.
After the completion of his medical degree, he gained research experience in the US by working at the behavioural neurosciences research centre at Purdue university. After migrating to Australia, he has done research at the Brain and Mind Research Institute (BMRI-University of Sydney) and have completed Master of Medicine (Psychiatry).
Dr Moonjelly is a Fellow of the Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, and he completed his psychiatry training at the Northern Sydney Hospital network. He has previously worked for Royal North Shore Hospital, Hornsby Hospital, Northern Beaches hospital, Cumberland hospital, Blacktown Hospital and Broken Hill Hospital and has experience working in both metropolitan and rural settings.
He has experience in the public and private sectors treating a range of mental health conditions including anxiety, depression and ADHD, across all age groups. He has a special interest in attachment disorders, cultural psychiatry, ADHD and anxiety disorders. Dr Moonjelly believes that human connections are essential for our well-being, and values listening to the whole story of the person in front of him before starting to use the tools of modern medicine (medications). He provides patients with a comprehensive mental health assessment and individualized treatment plan ensuring best outcomes. He is currently working at the Royal North Shore Hospital with the child and youth mental health team.
Dr Junjie Ling is a consultant psychiatrist who has a special interest in the intersection of medical illnesses and psychiatry, eating disorders, brain and spinal injuries, perinatal psychiatry, and mood disorders. He is completing a certificate of advanced training in consultation liaison psychiatry.
Dr Ling completed his undergraduate medical degree at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. He is highly skilled in applying the best evidence-based practices for the benefit of his patients and discussing issues such as diagnosis and treatments with his patients in an accessible way. He has been keenly involved in medical education since he was a junior doctor.
Dr Ling’s practice emphasises a holistic bio-psycho-social-cultural assessment and individualised formulation. He actively uses shared decision-making processes to implement a collaborative management plan that focuses on a person’s recovery goals. He is experienced in liaising with other medical and allied health professionals to achieve the best outcomes for his patients.
Dr Anupama (Anu) Sequeira is an experienced Consultant Psychiatrist currently working at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead.
She completed her basic medical training in 2008 and obtained post graduate qualifications in Psychiatry from prestigious Universities in India where she achieved first rank in MD Psychiatry prior to pursuing equivalent qualifications and training in Australia. She has obtained her FRANZCP and certificate of advanced training in child and adolescent psychiatry.
She specializes in the assessment and treatment of anxiety, mood disorders, obsessive compulsive disorders and neurodevelopmental disorders including ADHD.
Her approach to clients is holistic, culturally inclusive and collaborative.
Dr Jina Jose is a psychiatrist who has an advanced certificate of training in child and adolescent mental health. She has a special interest in working with young people and families with cultural and linguistically diverse background.
She is passionate about patient centered, collaborative and individualized care and believes in the healing value of empathic therapeutic relationships.
She currently works as the Consultant Psychiatrist in the Central Coast and Hunter New England regions.
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