Dr Meetiksha Malhotra is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist.
She completed her medical degree in India and went to the UK to higher training in child and adolescent psychiatry. She worked and trained across various parts of the UK including completing her higher training in child and adolescent psychiatry at St Mary’s Higher training scheme, London Deanery. She has worked at the University College of London and various other tertiary care hospitals and community mental health settings.
Her areas of interest include working with children and their families with neurodevelopmental disorders. She has special interest in assessment and management of ADHD, ASD, Tourette’s disorders and children and adolescents with learning disability. Dr Malhotra has worked with children and young people presenting with complex mental health disorders such as depression, anxiety, eating disorders and psychosis. She believes in offering a holistic care that includes not only management with medication but also therapeutic options including working with families and children. She can offer parenting interventions, behaviour management interventions.
She was the Special Education Needs governor for an outstanding primary school in London. In her role she helped develop care pathways to support the learning needs of children with special needs. This involved supporting staff training and accessing specialist learning techniques for children and liaison with families.
Dr Malhotra moved to Australia in 2020 and has been working with Queensland Health since then.