Building skills to support people living with complex mental illness

The TRSP is NSW’s only specialised tertiary referral psychosis service and aims to lead the way in setting new benchmarks for the quality of clinical care in public mental health services.
This pioneering centre provides specialised tertiary referral psychosis services that combine the very best in expert clinical assessments and treatments with professional education and training in higher level clinical skills, family and community engagement, and clinical effectiveness and investigative research. It offers:
- Individualised therapeutic approaches, including medication, psychological support, physical health care, and drug and alcohol and smoking cessation treatment
- Access to clinical and psychosocial research studies to ensure the most severely affected patients benefit as soon as possible
- Training for clinicians in providing cognitive remediation to patients
More information about the Tertiary Referral Service for Psychosis including referral information can be found in the TRSP Brochure
November 2023
Improving clinical & functional outcomes for people living with psychosis

Associate Professor Julia Lappin, Psychiatrist and Clinical Director of the NSW Tertiary Referral Service for Psychosis
October 2023
Protecting the physical health of people living with psychosis

Professor Jackie Curtis, Executive Director, Mindgardens Neuroscience Network
September 2023
Physical Health & Mental Health- A NSW population level view

Professor Grant Sara, Director, InforMH, System Information and Analytics Branch, NSW Ministry of Health
August 2023
Let’s Talk about Voices

Haylee Zink, Occupational Therapist and Senior Specialist Rehabilitation Clinician, Northern Sydney LHD Specialist Rehabilitation Service.
Dr Stephanie Bradstock, Consultant Psychiatrist with the Assertive Outreach Team of the Northern Beaches Mental Health Service
Kiko Ranawake, Consumer Peer Worker, Northern Sydney LHD and co-facilitator of a Hearing Voices Recovery Support Group with the Specialist Rehabilitation Service
July 2023
Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) for Schizophrenia

Professor Anthony Harris, Head of the Specialty of Psychiatry, Sydney Medical School
June 2023
Cognitive Remediation Therapy (CRT): Translating Online Therapy to Real World Outcomes

Dr Chloe Gott, Clinical Neuropsychologist, Tertiary Referral Service for Psychosis
May 2023
Intellectual Disability Psychiatry: What Clinicians Need to Know

Dr Pramudie Gunaratne, Neuropsychiatrist and senior research fellow at the Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychiatry (3DN), UNSW
March 2023
Drug-induced psychosis: what to ask and what to do

Associate Professor Julia Lappin, Psychiatrist and Clinical Director of the NSW Tertiary Referral Service for Psychosis
February 2023
Clozapine for Clinicians

Professor Dan Siskind, Psychiatrist, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane
Funding Sources
- NSW Ministry of Health
- Commonwealth grant funding awarded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care
Brings together the strengths of four founding organisations