Mental health disorders
Dr Sabrina Pozzi Langhi is a GP with clinical experience in mental health, based in Perth, Western Australia. She provides comprehensive mental health assessment, diagnosis, and management through long consultations.
Mental Health GP in Perth
Mental health difficulties can affect mood, anxiety, sleep, concentration, relationships, work, study, home life and physical wellbeing. Symptoms may be clear and recent, or long-standing and complex, with several contributing factors at once.
Dr Sabrina Pozzi Langhi provides mental health GP support in Perth, with longer consultations designed to understand the full clinical picture and develop a practical, coordinated care plan.
Sabrina consults at Elaris House in West Leederville, Perth.
Who this is for
This page is for people experiencing anxiety symptoms, depression symptoms, stress-related presentations, or more complex mental health concerns.
This may include assessment and management of anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, OCD, PTSD, ADHD, personality disorder, schizophrenia, older adult mental health concerns, dementia-related mental health concerns, or mixed presentations where physical health, medications, alcohol or drug use, sleep or trauma may be contributing.
What mental health difficulties can look like
Mental health difficulties vary from person to person. They may include:
Anxiety symptoms: ongoing worry, rumination, panic symptoms, physical anxiety symptoms, anxiety attacks or avoidance.
Depression symptoms: persistent low mood, tearfulness, irritability, loss of motivation, reduced enjoyment, fatigue or withdrawal.
Reduced functioning: difficulty managing work, study, home responsibilities, relationships or leaving the house.
Sleep disturbance and fatigue: difficulty sleeping, non-restorative sleep, low energy or concentration problems.
OCD symptoms: obsessions, compulsions, intrusive thoughts, reassurance seeking or checking behaviours.
Mood episodes: periods of elevated mood or energy, reduced need for sleep, marked mood swings or behaviour changes.
Trauma-related symptoms: flashbacks, hypervigilance, avoidance, emotional numbing or distress after trauma.
Longstanding patterns: interpersonal difficulties, emotional regulation concerns or behavioural patterns causing functional impairment.
Older adult concerns: cognitive changes, behavioural changes, distress, or carer and family concerns.
Mixed presentations: symptoms where physical health, medications, alcohol or drug use, trauma or sleep may also contribute.
How Sabrina’s approach helps
Sabrina’s approach is thorough, calm and collaborative. Longer appointments allow time to understand mental health symptoms in the context of physical health, sleep, medications, life circumstances, trauma, substance use, supports and previous treatment.
The aim is to clarify priorities, assess risk, identify contributing factors and develop a structured management plan. This may include a Mental Health Care Plan, Focused Psychological Strategies, medication review and options within scope, planning investigations, referral coordination and follow-up planning.
For health professionals
Sabrina may be helpful to involve when symptoms are persistent, severe, functionally impairing, complex, or only partially responding to first-line primary care support.
Referral may also be appropriate where there is diagnostic uncertainty, risk concern, medication complexity, comorbidity, or a need for coordinated care across multiple supports.
Examples of referral considerations include:
Persistent or severe anxiety, depression or stress-related symptoms
Functional impairment at work, study, home or in relationships
Diagnostic uncertainty, including bipolar disorder, OCD, PTSD, personality disorder or dementia-related concerns
Comorbidity or complex mixed presentations
Partial response to first-line primary care support
Need for careful medication review within scope
Risk concerns requiring additional assessment and coordination
Urgent support
This page provides information about planned, non-emergency mental health care. For crisis, emergency, safety concerns, specialist-only pathways, or medico-legal/report boundaries, please refer to the Model of Care page.
If there is immediate risk of harm to yourself, your baby, your child, or another person, call 000 or attend the nearest emergency department.
Appointments
If you are experiencing mental health concerns and would like a comprehensive GP mental health assessment, you can contact the practice to ask about appointment availability.