Anona House
mental health care for everyone.
Located in Newcastle NSW, Anona House provides health and psychology services for people of all ages. We are a group of mental health professionals dedicated to providing quality evidence-based services with compassion and integrity to people experiencing a broad range of issues.
Our vision is to provide a safe, compassionate environment for people in which they can lay the foundations for making positive change in their lives.
Our area of expertise
We believe effective therapy should be tailored to meet the individuals needs. We offer appointments for both Psychology and Psychiatry services. Which ever you require, the common goal is to achieve improvement in your psychological wellbeing in a caring and supportive way.
To learn more about accessing our services, click on the button below for more information.
Our Team
You’re in good hands with our experienced professionals.
Dr Angela Bates
Clinical Psychologist
Angela is a Clinical Psychologist with over twenty years of experience in private and public health settings, providing psychological therapy to children, adolescents and adults.
Dr Matthew Pols
Psychiatrist
Matthew is a fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, and has worked in inpatient and outpatient mental health settings in both public and private mental health services.
Jenni Gilmour
Psychologist
Jenni is a Registered Psychologist with over 20 years experience in providing psychological therapy to children, adolescents, adults and families in a range of community and health services.
Meg Spry
Psychologist
Meg is a Registered Psychologist with over 20 years of experience working in private practice with adults and couples. Meg is passionate about helping people to find solutions to their problems on their own terms, and to live rich and meaningful lives.
Kylie Monro
Psychologist
Kylie works with people over the age of 16 and uses a solution focused approach to help clients recognise their strengths and values to build motivation and make meaningful change in their lives.
Jackie Macdonald
Psychologist
Jackie is a Registered Psychologist who enjoys working with adults, helping them to cope with a broad range of presenting issues including anxiety and depression, trauma, grief and loss, and stress.
Dr Emily Connors
Clinical Psychologist
Emily is a Clinical Psychologist with over fifteen years’ experience and has a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of Sydney. She has worked across primary health care and hospital settings, providing psychological therapy to children, and adults.
Meg McClurg
Psychologist
Meg is a Registered Psychologist with experience in providing psychological therapy to children, adolescents, adults, and families to improve their mental health. Meg is also experienced in providing support to athletes, coaches, and teams.
Psychology
Our psychologists are available for individual therapy for children, adolescents and adults for a broad range of mental health presentations, including mood disorders, anxiety disorders, trauma and PTSD, grief and loss, life stress, childhood developmental disorders, ADHD, autism, relationship issues, and self-esteem.
The team at Anona House provide cognitive assessments for children and adolescents (up to 16 years of age), parenting interventions and support as well as providing supervision for all psychology training pathways and clinical supervision for ongoing professional development for psychologists and other health professionals.
Psychiatry
A psychiatrist is a medical doctor with specialist qualifications in the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness; as such they have a deep understanding of physical and mental health and how they affect each other.
Our psychiatrists provide best practice treatment in the diagnosing and treatment of people with mental illness through medication or psychotherapy or a combination of these treatments.
To see one of our psychiatrists a referral is needed from a General Practitioner or another treating specialist. Medicare does provide a rebate for these services however a gap payment will be required.
Would you like to know more?
We would love to hear from you. Contact us and one of our friendly staff will be able to help you.