Susan L. Rossell is a psychiatrist working at St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne in Fitzroy, VIC, Australia.
In her day-to-day work, she looks after people dealing with a mix of mental health and wellbeing challenges. This can include conditions like schizophrenia, major depression, bipolar disorder, and schizoaffective disorder. She also supports people who are living with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and obsessive thoughts and behaviours, as well as severe anxiety and panic-type distress linked with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD).
Eating issues are another important part of her care. She works with people experiencing anorexia and malnutrition, where both the body and mind need attention together. Over time, she also sees people who have PTSD after trauma, and those who need steady support when symptoms feel hard to manage day to day.
Some patients come in with mood and thinking changes that can be tied to other health events. At times, that can include people dealing with COVID-19 effects and Long Haul COVID, along with memory loss. She may also be involved in support around more complex health situations, including pneumonia, and recovery needs after traumatic brain injury (TBI).
She also works with people on the autism spectrum, and those who may be dealing with developmental dysphasia and related communication difficulties. When a person is facing a long-term pattern of mood changes like cyclothymic disorder, her care focuses on keeping things stable and helping people find practical ways to cope.
In some cases, her role may overlap with care for physical health symptoms that can happen alongside mental health conditions, such as migraines. There are also times when ongoing treatment options like deep brain stimulation (DBS) come into the picture for the right patients.
Her training includes medical and specialist psychiatry education, which supports her in working with people across both mental and physical health needs. At a hospital like St Vincent’s, this kind of joined-up care matters, because patients often need more than one view to feel understood and supported.
Overall, Susan Rossell’s practice is about clear, steady psychiatric help for people facing tough conditions—whether that’s severe depression, anxiety, psychosis-related symptoms, OCD, or the stress that can follow major illness.
