About

Dr Reza Nejad

Dr Reza Nejad

Dr Reza Nejad is a registered clinical psychologist with the Psychology Board of Australia, with over 24 years of experience, holding clinical endorsement and recognition as a board-approved supervisor through AHPRA.

Reza enjoys spending time with his family, his friends, watching movies and soccer. Reza is caring, empathic and strongly values the role of the therapeutic relationship. He provides a professional and safe therapeutic environment for his patients. He believes change is always possible and see his role as being to support people to reach their goals. Reza feels that his varying life experiences have shaped him into a more effective psychologist.

Reza has a Doctoral Degree in Clinical Psychology at the University of Adelaide as well as Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in psychology.

He holds the Academic Title of Clinical Senior Lecturer with the School of Psychology at The University of Adelaide, and provides placement supervision, coursework seminar and supervision for research projects.

Reza has full membership with the Australian Psychological Society and the College of Clinical Psychologists.

Dr Reza Nejad is internationally trained (Spain, Belgium and USA) and accredited in a broad range of evidence-based and contemporary treatment modalities, including prolonged exposure therapy, and cognitive behaviour therapy. Reza has worked in a wide range of mental health services in Australia and the USA prior to start his private practice.

Dr Reza specialises in anxiety disorders, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, eating disorder, grief and loss, insomnia, couple therapy and OCD.

He has a research background in a wide range of mental health conditions. He has been the principal researcher on numerous areas of clinical research into psychological issues and continues to supervise postgraduate students completing research in this area. From time to time Reza is also invited to provide expert critiques on scientific papers within his field of expertise.

  • Doctoral Degree in Psychology
  • Master of Psychology
  • Bachelor of Psychology

  • Registered Psychologist with Psychology Board of Australia with area of practice endorsement in clinical psychology
  • Fellow, APS College of Clinical Psychologists
  • Member of Australian Psychological Society

  • The prevalence of Comorbidities Among Pathological Gamblers in South Australia’ Oral Presentation at 22nd Australian National Conference for Gambling Studies, Launceston, Australia-2012;
  • ‘Therapeutic Community and Cultural Diversity’ Oral Presentation at Australian Therapeutic Community Information Seminar, Adelaide, Australia, 2009;
  • ‘Follow-up Evaluation of Tehran Therapeutic Community’ Oral Presentation at World Conference of Therapeutic Community. New York, USA, 2006;
  • ‘The Use of Music Therapy on Substance Abusers’ Oral Presentation at 11th World Congress of Music Therapy, Brisbane, Australia, 2005.
  • ‘Pathological Gambling and Comorbidities’ Oral Presentation at 9th European Conference on Gambling Studies and Policy Issues, Loutraki, Greece, 2012;
  • ‘Family Program in Therapeutic Community’ Oral Presentation at Australian Therapeutic Community Conference. Byron Bay, Australia, 2008;
  • ‘The Use of Music Therapy in Tehran Therapeutic Community’ Oral Presentation at International Symposium on Substance Abuse Treatment, Blankenberg, Belgium, 2005;

Reza has undertaken internship courses and field studies with the world-renowned Centres in the USA and Europe for psychological treatments.

  • Centre for Treatment of Substance Abuse and Comorbidities, Daytop Inc., New York, USA, 2006;
  • Centre for Treatment of Mental health Disorders, CEIS Formazione, Modena, Italy, 2012;
  • Centre for Treatment of Addiction and Mental Health Disorders, Trempoline, Belgium, 2005;
  • Centre for Treatment of Mental Health Disorders, Project Home, Mallorca, Spain, 2005;

From time to time Reza is also invited to provide expert critique on scientific papers within his field of expertise. Reza has served this role for the following journal and organisation:

  • International Association for Music & Medicine: Editorial Board Member;
  • International Association for Music and Medicine: Book editor and article reviewer;
  • The American Journal on Addiction, Reviewer;
  • International Journal of Health Policy and Management (IJHPM): Reviewer;

Dr Reza Nejad
Dr Reza Nejad