Dr Emmily Bueno de Mesquita is an Adult Psychiatrist with over 15 years of
work experience in multiple countries and settings – inpatient and out-patient
clinics, medical psychiatric units and prisons – which have provided her with
valuable life and work experience in supporting people suffering from
psychotic and depressive disorders, stress and anxiety disorders, substance use
disorders and vulnerabilities in their personalities.
She has a strong interest in attachment and trauma-based work, infant-carer
dyad (mother and baby) mental health, and supporting the mental and
emotional wellbeing of health professionals.
She continues to work in the Gold Coast University hospital, where she is
directly involved in clinical supervision of junior colleagues, education to
medical and nursing students, providing and training staff in reflective practice,
facilitating weekly mindfulness sessions and she is part of several leadership
committees in which she advocates for compassionate, patient-centred and
trauma-informed care. As well as being member of the doctor wellbeing
committee, she is also a trained peer supporter to her colleagues.
She believes there is more to health than “just” Western medicine and
medications, leaving her open to other more (or less) traditional ways to
influence, enhance and modify mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing. She
is delighted that science is slowly catching up in understanding how some of
these ‘other’ techniques aide our healing and recovery; making it more
acceptable to “prescribe” things like yoga, mindfulness, massage, sound
healing, or just simply ‘catching a wave’, here on the Gold Coast.
Born in South America, raised in the Caribbean and trained in both Europe and
Australia, she comes with a breath of multicultural exposure influencing her
daily practice. She is openminded, kind, non-judgmental and creative in her
approach to caring for you on your journey of recovery and healing.