Veterans & First Responders
Specialist trauma care for current and former ADF personnel and first responders. PTSD, moral injury, operational stress, and transition support.
Psychiatry & Psychotherapy — Byron Bay
Where oceanic boundlessness meets psychiatry.
Karuna provides bespoke integrative psychiatric and psychotherapeutic care — blending the most advanced clinical science with deep, compassionate healing.
"Healing is not the suppression of symptoms — we help address what is needed to allow for the restoration of wholeness across body, mind, and spirit."
Karuna Mental Health is a boutique integrative psychiatry and wellness centre in Byron Bay, offering some of Australia's most advanced therapeutic modalities under one roof. We combine evidence-based medicine-assisted therapies, precision psychiatry, clinical psychology, psychotherapy, somatic practices, integrative medicine, cultural practices, meditation, functional movement, and yoga — guided by specialists who believe in treating the whole person.
Specialist Areas
Who we serve.
Dashed borders indicate populations currently in our Research Program pathway.
Treatment-Resistant Conditions
Depression, PTSD, OCD, anxiety, and substance use disorders that haven't responded to conventional approaches. We go further.
Women's Health
Perinatal, perimenopausal, and hormonal mental health. Eating disorders, gender-sensitive trauma, and couples therapy.
Anxiety & OCD Spectrum
Research Program
Social anxiety, generalised anxiety disorder, OCD, and social anxiety in autism. A structured research pathway is in development.
Grief, Loss & End of Life
Support for grief, bereavement, anticipatory grief, and existential distress in the context of serious illness and end-of-life care.
Pain, Headaches & Neurology
Research Program
Cluster headaches, chronic pain, migraine, and functional neurological disorders. A dedicated research protocol is being developed.
Cancer & Serious Illness
Research Program
Existential distress, depression, and anxiety in people living with cancer and serious illness. A clinical research program is in development.
Longevity & Optimisation
High performers and those seeking peak cognitive, emotional, and physical wellbeing through precision medicine, nutrition, and longevity protocols.
Therapist Training & Research
The SWIM & FLOAT Model.
A pioneering clinical framework specifically designed to maximise healing and translate altered states into lasting altered traits — at the intersection of expanded-states medicine, trauma-informed care, habit engineering, and brain training.
Grounded in the conviction that altered states must lead to altered traits, SWIM & FLOAT provides clinicians with the architecture to hold, guide, and integrate expanded-state experiences into durable psychological and behavioural change.
200hr CPACT Certificate
EISP Program
Mentoring & Internships
University Scholarships
Digital LMS Platform
XR & VR Tools
SWIM & FLOAT Research
CPD Accreditation Pending
Get Started
Begin your healing journey.
All pathways begin with a confidential, no-obligation intake consultation. Our clinical team will listen carefully and guide you toward the approach most aligned with your needs.