Dr Jamie Rickcord
BSc (Hons), MBBS, FRACGP, MMed (Psychotherapy)
Psychotherapy.
Byron Bay.
Online across Australia.
About
I'm a GP. After ten years in general practice I trained as a psychotherapist, and I now work exclusively in psychotherapy.
In general practice you come to know the patients whose difficulties don't resolve - the pain that moves, the symptoms that keep returning with a normal result, the depression that has outlasted two rounds of CBT and three medications. You refer, and sometimes it helps, and often it doesn't.
I work with those patients now: complex trauma, personality disorders, and depression and anxiety that haven't responded to treatment. I practise the Conversational Model, developed at the University of Sydney for complex trauma and disturbance of self. I am on the faculty that coordinates the online Master's in trauma-informed psychotherapy there, and supervise trainee therapists in their clinical work.
I see adults and adolescents in person in Byron Bay, with clients from across the Northern Rivers, Ballina, Lismore, the Tweed and the Gold Coast, and by video anywhere in Australia or internationally. A Medicare rebate applies to every session with a referral letter from your GP.
BSc (Hons), MBBS, FRACGP, MMed (Psychotherapy). Clinical member, ANZAP.
Two ways of working
Brief therapy - 8 to 16 sessions
Psychodynamic interpersonal therapy is a defined, time-limited treatment with randomised trial evidence in depression, self-harm, and physical symptoms that have no physical explanation. It is often what is offered when CBT has been tried without lasting benefit. A Medicare rebate applies to every session, with a referral from your GP.
Longer-term psychotherapy
For trauma that has shaped how a person experiences themselves and other people. The Conversational Model works on the assumption that a coherent sense of self is made between people, and can be rebuilt the same way. Weekly and open-ended, with close attention to the texture of the conversation rather than advice or homework.
Both are conversations. There are no worksheets. If you have tried therapy before and found it too brisk or too shallow, this is likely to be different.
Contact
In person at Mudita Holistic Collective in the Arts and Industrial Estate, Byron Bay, or by video anywhere in Australia.
You don't need a referral to book — you're welcome to get in touch directly and see me privately.
To claim a Medicare rebate, ask your GP for a referral letter to me by name. Because I'm a GP, the rebate applies to every session, with no ten-session cap. Rebates are only available for patients based in Australia.