About Dr Joel Singer

Dr Joel Singer is a Psychiatrist for Children, Adolescents and Adults. He provides treatment and medicolegal assessments.

BMed, MD(Distinction), FRANZCP, Cert. Child Adol.

Dr Singer is a medical doctor and completed his degree at the University of New South Wales with Distinction. During this time, he completed a medical clerkship at Harvard University. He subsequently worked at several hospitals in Sydney, including St Vincent’s and Prince of Wales Hospitals. He has extensive forensic training having worked treating adolescents and adults with Justice Health and the Forensic Mental Health Network. Additionally, Dr Singer has specialised experience working with people living with neurodevelopmental disorders, having trained at the Neuropsychiatric Institute Sydney, and the Kogarah Developmental Assessment Service.

Dr Singer has extensive experience in providing expert psychiatric opinion in civil and family court matters. He was the recipient of a HETI Award in Psychiatry and Mental Health where he provided medicolegal assessments of young people and their families at the Children’s Court Clinic. Additionally, he has been the co-author of several journal articles and a textbook chapter, and was a conjoint lecturer in Medicine for the University of New South Wales.

Dr Singer employs evidence-based practice and is warm and person-centred in his approach.