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Australia Wide
Senior Consultant Psychiatrist Psychodynamic Psychotherapist Academic Author
Associate Professor Andrew Leggett is a highly experienced Consultant Psychiatrist and Psychodynamic Psychotherapist with more than 33 years of clinical practice across Queensland and New South Wales.
His work combines contemporary psychiatry with psychodynamic psychotherapy, helping people understand not only their symptoms but also the life experiences, relationships, and personal challenges that shape their mental health.
Andrew is known for his thoughtful, compassionate, and reflective approach. He believes that meaningful psychiatric care begins with understanding the individual behind the diagnosis.
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Andrew provides specialist assessment and treatment across a broad range of psychiatric and psychological conditions, including:
He has particular expertise in working with individuals whose difficulties have not responded to previous treatment approaches and who require comprehensive assessment and thoughtful treatment planning.
A significant part of Andrew’s career has been devoted to understanding and treating the effects of trauma.
His trauma-informed approach integrates contemporary neuroscience, psychiatry, and psychotherapy. Treatment focuses on establishing safety and stability while helping individuals strengthen emotional regulation, improve relationships, restore confidence, and regain meaningful functioning.
Andrew recognises that recovery involves more than symptom reduction. It often requires rebuilding trust, reconnecting with others, and restoring a sense of purpose.
One of Andrew’s longstanding professional interests is supporting people whose careers involve caring for, leading, protecting, and serving others.
Over many years he has worked extensively with:
These professions often involve sustained pressure, exposure to trauma, leadership responsibilities, compassion fatigue, burnout, moral injury, and high-performance expectations.
Through PsycheTel Australia, Andrew provides confidential psychiatric care and psychotherapy for healthcare professionals, executives, veterans, and first responders seeking specialist support delivered with discretion, insight, and understanding.
Andrew has a longstanding interest in the mental health and wellbeing of veterans and serving members of the Australian Defence Force.
His work is grounded in a deep respect for military service and an understanding that the psychological impacts of operational stress, trauma, injury, loss, and transition to civilian life are often complex and highly individual.
He has extensive experience supporting veterans experiencing:
His focus is on helping veterans build resilience, recovery, and meaningful lives beyond the impact of trauma.
Andrew has considerable experience in occupational and medico-legal psychiatry.
Throughout his career he has assessed and treated many injured workers and has acted as a medico-legal examiner in civil, criminal, and occupational matters.
For nine years, he served as a member of the Queensland Workers’ Compensation Tribunal (QComp Tribunal), contributing to the determination of permanent impairment assessments for injured workers.
His expertise in workplace injury, trauma, psychological impairment, and recovery has made him a respected contributor within both clinical and medico-legal settings.
Andrew has held numerous senior leadership and educational roles, including:
He is passionate about mentoring the next generation of psychiatrists and mental health professionals and has supervised:
He remains actively involved in professional supervision and psychiatric education.
In addition to his medical and specialist psychiatric qualifications, Andrew holds:
He is a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists and is affiliated with several professional organisations, including:
In addition to his medical and specialist psychiatric qualifications, Andrew holds:
He is a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists and is affiliated with several professional organisations, including:
Alongside his clinical and academic work, Andrew is an internationally published author, poet, researcher, and songwriter.
His writing explores memory, grief, spirituality, dreams, identity, relationships, and the complexities of human experience.
His published works include:
He has also published poetry, fiction, academic papers, reviews, and songs, including work performed and recorded by The Blood Moon Wailers.
Andrew believes that effective psychiatric care begins with listening.
While diagnosis, medication, and evidence-based treatment are important, lasting recovery often emerges through understanding the individual’s story, relationships, experiences, strengths, and aspirations.
Understanding the person, not just the symptoms.
