Dr Shreyus Shivanand is a Consultant Psychiatrist with Dual Subspecialty in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Consultation–Liaison Psychiatry, conferred by the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists. She completed her specialist psychiatric training at Monash Health and holds a Master of Psychiatry from the University of Melbourne.
Alongside her clinical practice, Dr Shivanand maintains an active academic and clinical research profile, contributing to both undergraduate and postgraduate medical education within the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences and the Department of Psychiatry, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash University. Her academic engagement reflects a longstanding commitment to advancing psychiatric scholarship and fostering the next generation of clinicians.
Her clinical practice is distinguished by intellectual rigour, cultural sensitivity, and a deeply person-centred philosophy of care. Working extensively across multilingual and culturally diverse communities, she offers comprehensive psychiatric assessments, formulation-driven treatment planning, and judicious psychopharmacological management for a broad spectrum of psychiatric presentations. Her approach integrates evidence-based practice with collaborative, culturally attuned care.
Dr Shivanand’s principal areas of expertise include neuropsychiatry, neurodevelopmental disorders, eating disorders, perinatal mental health, and the psychiatric care of children and adolescents. She is dedicated to delivering nuanced, integrative treatment within a compassionate and therapeutically engaged framework.
Beyond her professional endeavours, Dr Shivanand maintains a longstanding engagement with the arts and music and values the perspective and enrichment gained through travel and cross-cultural exploration