Medication Assisted Psychotherapy

Monarch Mental Health is recognized as Australia's first outpatient clinic offering assisted therapy and is the largest provider of outpatient magnetic stimulation therapy, among other advanced treatments. Previously, from 2004 to 2015, Dr. Cassidy was the co-founder and Chief Psychiatrist of The Hills Clinic Hospital and medical centers, which treated over 10,000 patients during his tenure.

He completed his undergraduate medical degree and Master of Psychiatry at the University of Melbourne.  He is a fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, having completed his specialist psychiatry training at ACT Health in Canberra and  Alfred Health in Melbourne. Dr Modak's interests include mood disorders and ADHD.  His training has focused on general adult psychiatry but he also has experience working in a specialist youth mental health service. Dr Modak has experience with a range of treatment modalities, including neurostimulation, pharmacological interventions, and psychotherapy.  He has published research in the area of transcranial magnetic stimulation and has clinical expertise in this area.  Alongside biological interventions, he has interests in psychodynamic psychotherapy and mindfulness-based psychotherapy.  Finally, he has a strong interest in emerging and innovative treatments, including next-step medications.

Dr Lau is a medical doctor trained in addiction and adult psychiatry. His treatment services include inpatient and outpatient psychiatric care tailored to individual needs and cultural backgrounds. He has experience in managing addiction, mood disorders, OCD, PTSD, generalised anxiety disorders and psychosis including TMS and trauma-informed addiction services.

Monica is also a mother, yoga teacher, gardening enthusiast and book nerd. Her clinical experience includes working with people who have experienced childhood and adult trauma, especially veterans, current and former serving defence personnel, First Nations peoples, domestic violence survivors, and victims of crime. She has worked within inpatient and outpatient psychiatric hospital settings, in private practice, and prisons. Monica has expertise in the field of substance use, having worked across opiate substitution clinics, community settings and residential rehabilitation services. Monica has been involved in the training, supervision, and well-being of other mental health professionals for the past decade. She provides clinical supervision to health professionals, counsellors and peer workers, provisional, registered, and clinical registrar psychologists, as well as professionals with conditions posed on their registration by AHPRA. Monica believes that the relationship between client and therapist is the heart of effective therapy and that the relationship between supervisee and supervisor is equally as important. She is a warm, insightful therapist whose approach depends on the needs of the person. Her therapeutic style draws on strengths-based approaches, relational and interpersonal psychotherapy, Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR), IFS, somatic psychotherapy, mindfulness and non-dual meditation practices. Monica is an Accredited EMDR Practitioner with EMDRAA, an Internal Family Systems (IFS) Level 1 Practitioner. She is a Certified iRest Yoga Nidra teacher and has co-authored research on yoga and mental health. She is also a non-executive committee member of a domestic violence charity in Newcastle.