Emily Hodges

Emily Hodges has 16 years experience in acute psychiatry, working in a consultation liaison role in medical and surgical units, and crisis response in the community. She has built a career on advocating for, and delivering exceptional care to those struggling with mental ill health. She has been a nurse practitioner for four years, specialising in emergency psychiatry.

She has long held a passion for women’s health and has most recently worked solely in the perinatal psychiatry field with pregnant women, new mothers, as well as families and babies in NICU. Her values lie in offering neuro-protective developmental care for infants, with a plan to be an accredited possums practitioner in the new year.

Always learning, she undertook more studies this year at Royal Children’s Hospital, focusing on infant care and infant/parent relationships drawing on the disciplines of developmental psychology, psychiatry, and the theoretical basis of psychoanalysis. This has further enabled her to assist the capacity of parents to promote their child’s healthy development while feeling confident and supported themselves.

She is a mother of a 3 year old girl, a 5 year old giant poodle, and an aunty to many. She loves to celebrate love, and moonlights as a wedding celebrant, while spending her free time in pilates, breath work courses, travelling the world and having fun with her family and her girlfriends.