About
Dr Sabrina Pozzi Langhi — GP with Special Interest in Mental Health, Perth WA
Sabrina graduated from the University of Lausanne in 2003, training in Switzerland before moving to Australia to make Perth home in 2006. Her early medical career spanned a wide range of hospital and community medicine, including women's health, paediatrics, emergency care, general medicine, surgery, geriatrics, rehabilitation, as well as infectious diseases.
Since 2010, she has focused predominantly on mental health, developing deep experience across perinatal mental health services, emergency psychiatry, inpatient care, community care, consultation-liaison settings, all while continuing to practice as a GP in Perth, Western Australia.
Outside of work, Sabrina is a mum of twins, an avid traveller, a French speaker with family spread around the world.
Holistic, person-centred health care
Sabrina practices holistic health care, an approach that considers mind, body, and the broader context of your life as equally important to your wellbeing. Your relationship with nutrition, sleep, hormones, relationships, and daily functioning all matter as much as your test results or diagnosis.
This means care is never reduced to a single symptom or condition. Assessment is thorough and wide-ranging, looking at how physical health, mental health, life circumstances, and personal history interact, so that the full picture informs your treatment, not just one part of it.
Sabrina's style is warm and collaborative. Consultations are longer and unhurried, designed to give you the time and space to ask questions, share concerns, and be heard as a whole person, not just a presenting complaint. The goal is always to work with you, not just for you: understanding your priorities, building a plan that fits your life, and adjusting it together over time.
Whether you are dealing with something specific, like perimenopause, postpartum mood changes, or a mental health concern, or you are feeling unsure about a diagnosis and want a more rounded, whole-person assessment, the aim is the same: to understand all the pieces of your health puzzle and help you move forward with clarity and confidence.
ADHD, neurodivergence (including autism) and youth mental health
Sabrina's work in ADHD, neurodivergence (including autism), and youth mental health is grounded in more than a decade of clinical experience across hospital and private practice settings. She has worked alongside psychiatrists and psychologists in ADHD diagnosis and medication management, including diagnostic clarification, treatment planning, and co-prescribing arrangements where appropriate.
Her experience includes supporting adolescents and young adults with complex and overlapping presentations, where ADHD symptoms, autistic traits, anxiety, mood disorders, trauma, and sleep difficulties may interact. Care involves careful developmental assessment, attention to school and family context, and structured treatment planning integrated with broader mental and physical health care.
Mental health disorders
Sabrina has targeted training in evidence-based psychological and trauma-informed care, including Focused Psychological Strategies (FRACGP, FPS), CBT training through the Centre for Clinical Interventions, and specialist trauma counselling training with the Sexual Assault Resource Centre.
This is complemented by extensive psychiatry experience across emergency, inpatient, community clinic, and consultation-liaison services. Her approach combines careful diagnostic formulation, practical therapy-informed strategies, and medication initiation, review and deprescribing as per Maudsley guidelines where indicated. Care is collaborative and whole-person, often coordinated with psychologists, education providers, and family systems where appropriate.
She has extensive experience supporting patients with anxiety symptoms and depression, bipolar disorder, OCD, PTSD treatment, ADHD, schizophrenia, personality disorder, and dementia support, including complex comorbid presentations. The focus remains on clarity of diagnosis, practical supports, and coordinated ongoing care.
Drug and alcohol misuse
Sabrina has worked with alcohol misuse and other drug presentations within psychiatric services, including acute assessment in emergency and inpatient settings as well as ongoing outpatient care.
Her approach balances safety with engagement, recognising the complexity of alcohol and drug misuse and its relationship with mental health. This may include collaboration with local detoxification pathways, harm-reduction planning, medication management where appropriate, and coordination with psychologists, social workers, and specialist AOD providers.
Areas of interest
Pregnancy and postpartum mental health
Sabrina brings dedicated training and senior public-hospital experience in perinatal mental health, including PREPP (Practical Resources for Effective Postpartum Parenting) training from Columbia University (USA). She also holds Prescriber Medical Practitioner authorisation from the WA Chief Psychiatrist. Her experience includes consultation-liaison and outpatient antenatal clinic and Mother Baby Unit.
For patients, this means thorough assessment of postpartum depression, postpartum anxiety, and other pregnancy mental health concerns, with thoughtful medication management when needed during pregnancy and the postpartum period. Care is coordinated to support both emotional wellbeing and medical safety, and may include creating a sensitive birth plan, post-birth trauma debriefing, and counselling following pregnancy loss or miscarriage. The focus extends to the mother–baby dyad, with attention to paternal wellbeing where relevant.
Sabrina also works actively with the Pregnancy to Parenthood not-for-profit organisation to support women experiencing perinatal mental health challenges.
Women’s health, (peri)menopause, PMDD/PMS
Sabrina holds formal qualifications in sexual and reproductive health through Family Planning WA, along with additional training relevant to gynaecological conditions including endometriosis. Her earlier hospital work in women’s health has continued into both general practice and hospital-based care.
She supports women experiencing cyclical mood changes, perimenopause symptoms, menopause symptoms, premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) and premenstrual syndrome (PMS) diagnosis and management, and contraception-related concerns. Care may include hormonal assessment, perimenopause and menopause mental health support, discussion of menopause replacement therapy/hormonal replacement therapy (MRT/HRT) where appropriate, and integration of mental health care with broader women's health management; recognising that hormonal and psychological wellbeing are often closely linked.
Insomnia and sleep problems
Sabrina approaches insomnia and sleep problems from both psychiatric and general practice perspectives. She has managed sleep difficulties in outpatient GP care as well as acute hospital settings, where insomnia symptoms frequently overlap with anxiety, depression, trauma, neurodivergence, OSA, perinatal mental health, perimenopause, and menopause.
Assessment focuses on identifying contributing factors: psychological, behavioural, medical, or hormonal. Management may include sleep-specific behavioural strategies, mindfulness approaches, sleep hygiene guidance, safe prescribing where appropriate, and integration with broader mental health treatment plans.
Weight management and eating disorders
Sabrina has undertaken specific training in eating disorder care, including recognised core skills training and Family-Based Therapy (FBT) certification for adolescent eating disorders. She has also worked in bariatric and metabolic medicine settings, collaborating with surgeons and dietitians.
This background supports careful screening for disordered eating, body dysmorphia, structured evidence-based treatment planning, and integrated care that aligns physical health goals with psychological wellbeing. The emphasis is on safe, coordinated care that recognises the close relationship between weight, metabolism, body image, physical and mental health, GLP-1 indication/contraindication.