Dr Agata Moody
Dr Agata Moody studied medicine in Poland and qualified as a consultant psychiatrist in the UK before emigrating to New Zealand to work at Southland Hospital in 2019.
Born and raised in a small town, in south-eastern Poland, on the doorstep of Roztocze National Park, Dr Moody studied medicine in a beautiful city of Wroclaw, Poland.
After finishing medical school, she worked briefly in Poland and later moved to the UK where she completed postgraduate training in General Adult and Rehabilitation Psychiatry in Manchester.
Her training experience encompassed training rotations in a wide variety of mental health settings with a broad range of patients in both Poland and the UK. She trained as a clinical hypnotherapist in New Zealand.
As a consultant psychiatrist she led a busy inpatient ward for women with diverse Ethnic and cultural background in North Manchester before working in a forensic hospital, for men with acquired brain injury.
Since moving to New Zealand Dr Moody has been working as a consultant psychiatrist in the public health care system and privately.
Dr Moody’s clinical interests and expertise are mood disorders, anxiety disorders particularly complexity of OCD, generational and relational trauma, PTSD, ADHD assessment and perinatal psychiatry.
Dr Moody has also an interest in psychotherapy, particularly in Jungian School of therapy.
Dr Moody is also a regular presenter on international psychiatric and hypnotherapy conferences and she is an advanced clinical hypnotherapist.