Unfortunately, Dr Parkin has now permanently closed his books to new referrals, except returning patients (under the age of 18 years).

Dr Parkin is a Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist with extensive experience in England, New Zealand and New South Wales. He qualified as a psychiatrist in the UK in 1990, when he specialised in child and adolescent mental health. He is a Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (UK), a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists and a member of the College's Faculty of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.

After completing a Wellcome Research Fellowship at the University of Leicester, UK, he was appointed a Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant there in 1996. He completed his PhD on children's perception of the emotional quality of relations. He worked in Auckland between 2001 and 2009 in a range of clinical services and held a position as Senior Lecturer at the University of Auckland, where he was Programme Coordinator of a Postgraduate Certificate in Child & Adolescent Mental Health and a PhD supervisor. He worked at Western Sydney Local Health District from 2009-2015 in the community and on the adolescent inpatient and day patient units at Redbank House, where he was unit head on the Adolescent & Family Unit for 2 years.

He has published 14 papers in international peer-reviewed journals, co-authored a book for front-line professionals on child mental health (now in its 3rd edition), presented 25 papers at international and national conferences, and was a working party member of the NSW CAMHS Competency Framework.