Dr
Aparna Laddipeerla
— Specialist Psychiatrist
MBBS, FRANZCP
Dr Laddipeerla is a consultant psychiatrist with over 20 years of experience in clinical practice. Perinatal mental health and psychotherapy are her main areas of interest and expertise. She is a Fellow of the Royal Australian New Zealand College of Psychiatrists and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Adelaide. She joined SA health in 2006 and has worked across cultures and settings including at the The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Rural and Remote Mental Health Service, Eastern Community Mental Health Service and South Australian Intellectual Disability Health Service. She provides clinical leadership, direct clinical care, and supervision for trainees and medical students.
Dr Laddipeerla provides Women’s Mental Health care within a trauma-informed, and holistic/bio-psycho-social framework. She combines Schema Therapy principles along with a person's narrative of strengths, resilience and post traumatic growth in her treatment interventions. In 2023, she completed her advanced certificate in Schema Therapy and also attained her certification as a Schema Therapist. Through a short-term Schema Therapy course, she helps patients with chronic mental health problems with personality disorders and attachment disorders.
Dr Laddipeerla is passionate about Perinatal Mental Health to improve the mental health and wellbeing of women before, during and after pregnancy. She has trained in Parental Embodied Mentalising Assessment (PEMA) and is doing the Infant Mental Health Advanced Training (IMHAT) through Mindful & the Royal Children’s Hospital (Melbourne). Her paper - 'Reflections on Aboriginal Perinatal Mental Health, Mothers, Babies, Families and Community - A South Australian Trainee Experience', was published in the journal Australasian Psychiatry in June 2015.