Dr Karen Spielman

GP Specialist in Psychological Medicine

Paddington Family Practice

465 Oxford St

Paddington 2021

Ph 93315080

MBBS,FRACGP,CEDC,FASPM

Tikvah Clinic

18 Vernon St

Woollahra 2025

Ph 0448634700

About me

  • I see patients at Paddington Family Practice on Tuesdays 845am- 1pm and Thursdays 2pm-6pm and occasional Saturday mornings

  • I see patients at Tikvah Clinic Centre for Eating Disorder Recovery on Wednesdays 9-6 and every second Monday 9-2

  • On other days I work as GP Consultant and Research Associate at InsideOut Institute for Eating Disorders and Advocacy Chair and Board Member for ASPM, as well as teaching and supervising GPs in Mental Health

  • My books are closed to new patients at Paddington as I focus on providing care to my long term patients, having worked from there since 2001.

Original Art by Petra Fonteyn

Paddington Family Practice

At Paddington I provide care to long term patients . As I am only there twice a week I suggest my patients also choose another GP colleague to see for more acute or urgent care. Appointments can be made by calling reception.

Paddington Family Practice (PFP) has operated for over 40 years. It hosts independent like minded GPs who individually provide high quality health care to the local community. PFP holds AGPAL accreditation ensuring it has current policies and procedures to provide best practice standard of care. PFP was started by Drs Vicki Sutton and Pam MacDonald at 278 Oxford street. It moved up the road to its current location, 465 Oxford street, in 2012 where the Brenner family had previously operated a medical practice.

APPOINTMENTS AND FEES

Appointments for me can only be made via my reception on 93315080
Long consults (30-40 mins) are around $170-200. (Medicare rebate minimum $82.90)

Extended consults (over 40 mins) are charged around $240 (Medicare rebate of $122.15)

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After hours service: Sydney Medical Service – Telephone 1300 466 347 (1300 HOME GP)

For Medical emergencies please call 000

For Mental Health emergencies please call 1800011511

Tikvah Clinic Centre for Eating Disorder Recovery

Tikvah Clinic was established in 2022 by myself and Ariana Elias with the aim of providing community-based multidisciplinary collaborative care by passionate skilled clinicians to people with Eating Disorders. We are so proud of the team we have created and the care we deliver.

Referrals are to be discussed with the admin team, and I prioritise those seeing my colleagues at the practice.

FEES

Half hour $200

Up to an hour $300

Specialised over 60 min appt (eg new patient) depending on appt type $300-$450

Supervision and teaching

I run Professional Peer Reflection Groups (PPRGs) for GPs and am involved in teaching in various settings.

I have been recognised as a Fellow of ASPM (FASPM)

InsideOut Institute

I am GP consultant and Senior Research Associate at InsideOut Institute, university of Sydney

RACGP

I am a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of GPs, I hold Recognition of Extended Skills in Psychological Medicine and am the NSW Psychological Medicine Special Interest Group rep.

Useful links

My favourite Resources

Insight Timer “meta” meditation app Yoga withAdrienne for trauma informed online yoga

Waking Up With Sam Harris - another nice meditation app

InsideOut Institute e-clinic for people with eating disorder symptoms

Some videos about EDs which I made with Aspen Altitude

Development and Presentations of Eating Disorders

https://vimeo.com/aspenpharma/download/997584684/ab068e55f3

 
Management and Resources for Patients With Eating Disorders

https://vimeo.com/aspenpharma/download/1005309488/8beb4a2f60