Dr Caroline Crabb

Clinical Practice

Dr Caroline Crabb is a Consultant Psychiatrist who treats all adults with mood, anxiety, eating and psychotic disorders.Her interests include Depression, Anxiety disorders, Obsessive compulsive disorder, Eating Disorders, Bipolar affective disorder, Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective disorder, Post partum psychosis, Emotionally unstable personality disorder, Mother – infant relationship bonding or attachment difficulties, Mental health problems associated with pregnancy complications. Dr Crabb has subspeciatly expertise is in perinatal mental health providing care for women with mental health problems in the perinatal period. She holds public appointments at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital & King Edward Memorial Hospital alongside her private work.

Background & Training

Dr Crabb has specialist and generalist medical registration with AHPRA and is accredited as a fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists and associate member of the UK Royal College of Psychiatrists. She is also a Member of Council of the Australian Medical Association (WA).

Dr Crabb graduated as a doctor from London University, and completed here undergraduate training at Charing Cross Hospital Medical School (now Imperial College). Previous to working in psychiatry in 2011, Caroline worked for many years as a GP with a focus on women’s and children’s health with Diplomas in Obstetrics and Gynaecology (RCOG, UK) and Child Health (Royal College of Physicians, London).

During her perinatal psychiatry fellowship training in Western Australia, she worked within community perinatal services at Rockingham and Peel Mental Health Services, on the Mother and Baby Units at both KEMH and Fiona Stanley Hospital and in a Consultation-Liaison role at both KEMH and the Raphael St John of God Service.

Dr Crabb has several years’ experience of teaching and training other professionals to help them recognise and deliver care for women with mental health problems in pregnancy and the postnatal period. This includes training junior doctors, maternity staff, GPs, psychiatry registrars and other mental health professionals. She has delivered lectures and workshops on perinatal psychiatry both locally and internationally and she currently coordinates the WA Perinatal and Infant Peer Group.