Domain Psychiatry.
Mental Healthcare. Refined.
Private and discreet mental health assessment and treatment, for high-achieving individuals.
Domain Psychiatry.
Delivered by Dr Robert Gillies, OAM.
OAM ǀ FRANZCP ǀ Cert. Child Adol. Psych ǀ MBBS (Hons) ǀ BMedSc (Hons) ǀ MPH&TM ǀ MPM ǀ DipLibArts
At the peak of success, mental clarity is the most powerful currency.
Success isn’t defined as acquiring financial wealth. For founders, CEOs, investors, and other high-performing or high-net-worth individuals, mental health is increasingly recognised as the key to lasting and sustainable success.
Domain Psychiatry is a bespoke, concierge psychiatry service delivering discreet mental health assessment and treatment in the privacy of your home. Led by medical specialists, we offer expert psychiatric care to clients who value performance, confidentiality, and holistic well-being.
Executives and ultra-high performers can be neurologically-wired to endure discomfort, sacrifice, pain and suffering. They might tend to delay gratification, and sometimes are praised for their grit and perseverance. While extreme resilience may fuel achievement, it can come at the expense of emotional and cognitive decline. Many clients we see have normalised chronic stress, low-grade anxiety, and burnout. Left untreated, these otherwise invisible burdens might accelerate ageing, impair decision-making, and diminish the ability to enjoy the life/career that has been built. The mental health costs of success are real, and addressing them can become a powerful step toward sustainable longevity.
Domain Psychiatry offers psychiatric care for founders, executives, and other high-performing individuals, who are facing unique performance- and occupational-related stressors. We understand the emotional toll of performance, leadership, and privacy. That’s why our services are tailored to you, and can be delivered in the privacy of your home or through secure tele-psychiatry. At Domain Psychiatry, we help you protect and enhance your most valuable asset: your mind. Mental clarity, sleep quality, energy management, and emotional regulation are core components of 21st-century leadership. These are not luxuries—they’re performance essentials. Mental health is now a marker of status, longevity, and influence
What We Offer
Domain Psychiatry is not a typical psychiatric service. We offer:
• In-home psychiatric care for absolute privacy, via telehealth (and in person, if appropriate)
• Ongoing therapeutic treatment tailored to executive lifestyles
• Comprehensive mental performance reviews
• Access to evidence-based tools including psychopharmacology, neurocognitive testing, and psychological coaching
• Optional collaboration with your personal physicians, executive coaches, or other allied health workers
We work with a limited number of clients to maintain the highest standards of discretion and care.
Our approach addresses key areas of leadership and longevity:
• Stress regulation via nervous system retraining
• Emotional mastery for high-stakes decision-making
• Cognitive performance optimisation using medical, psychological, and behavioural tools
• Resilience coaching to sustain performance through volatility
Our Clients Include:
• Entrepreneurs, C-suite executives, and start-up founders
• Investors and family office principals
• Creatives and public figures
• Individuals experiencing burnout, anxiety, depression, insomnia, or leadership fatigue
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Dr Robert Gillies, OAM.
Biography and Professional Career.
OAM ǀ FRANZCP ǀ Cert. Child Adol. Psych ǀ MBBS (Hons) ǀ BMedSc (Hons) ǀ MPH&TM ǀ MPM ǀ DipLibArts
Dr Robert Gillies knows what its like to perform in high pressure environments. He has attained various tertiary degrees in fields of science and medicine, and is a specialist medical physician. He is also the founder and director of several successful businesses, in both the not-for-profit and for-profit industry. Alongside his academic and professional endeavours, Dr Gillies has been a public figure and speaker. His leadership and innovation have been recognised with several different honours, including an Order of Australia Medal. He is well positioned to assist high-performing individuals with their mental health and professional performance, in view of his psychiatric training, as well as his personal experience founding start-ups and growing businesses (and the unique pressures entailed in these activities).
Dr Robert Gillies is a registered Medical Doctor (MBBS Hons) and Psychiatrist (FRANZCP) practicing in Melbourne, Australia. He also holds an Advanced Certificate of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, a Master of Psychiatric Medicine, a Master of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, a Bachelor of Medical Science with Honours, and several professional certificates in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) assessment and management.
Dr Gillies completed his specialist medical training over a five-year period at the Alfred Hospital. Whilst employed at the Alfred, he was a member of the adult community care team, child and youth mental healthcare teams, inpatient hospital teams, hospital consultation and liaison teams, neurodevelopmental assessment teams, and a number of different Headspace teams. He also provided fly-in psychiatric and medical support to remote Australian hospitals during his training, from time to time. Since graduating as a specialist, Dr Gillies has worked as an inpatient hospital psychiatrist at The Melbourne Clinic (in Richmond). In this role, Dr Gillies provided inpatient (hospital-based) psychiatric care to people with obsessive compulsive disorder, as well as other psychiatric conditions. Dr Gillies also operates a private psychiatric practice through Evallies Rooms, where he has a special interest in managing ADHD, OCD, autism, anxiety, insomnia, trauma conditions, and some eating conditions (including binge eating disorder). He is not currently accepting referrals for management of addiction conditions, psychotic conditions, forensic issues, major depressive disorders, anorexia or bulimia nervosa, or bipolar affective disorders.
About Dr Robert Gillies OAM
Education
Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists [FRANZCP].
Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, with Honours [MBBS (Hons)]. Monash University.
Advanced Certificate in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry [Cert. Child Adol. Psych.]. The University of Melbourne.
Master of Psychiatric Medicine [MPM]. Monash University.
Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule Certificate. The University of Melbourne, Mindful.
ASD Assessment Fundamentals and Comorbidities Certificate. The University of Melbourne, Mindful.
Master of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, with Distinction [MPH&TM]. James Cook University.
Bachelor of Medical Science, with Honours [BMedSc (Hons)]. Monash University.
Diploma of Liberal Arts [DipLibArts]. Monash University.
Certificate IV in Business Management. The National Training Pty Ltd.
Certificate IV in Business Sales. The National Training Pty Ltd.
Research Scholar, New York University. Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
Career
Founder and Company Director. Evallies.
Hospital Consultant Psychiatrist, The Melbourne Clinic. Present employment.
Medical Doctor & Psychiatry Trainee, The Alfred Hospital. From 2016 - 2022.
Lecturer of Medicine and Psychiatry, Monash University. From 2021 - 2023.
Accredited Member of the RANZCP Faculty of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (FCAP). From 2023.
Deputy Chair of the Board of Directors, Conscious Creative Ltd. From 2015 - present.
Co-Founder, HoMie. Melbourne-based streetwear label with 100% of profits spent achieving its mission. Learn more at: www.homie.com.au.
Associate Fellow, Royal Commonwealth Society. From 2018 to present.
Co-Founder, Yarra Swim Co. Yarra Swim Co. led a mission to clean up and make swimmable the Yarra River in Melbourne.
Co-Founder, Charity Tap. An Australian Not-For-Profit organisation that helped hospitality businesses raise money for local charities.
Co-Founder, Dream Larger. A fundraising Charity that supported local leadership, infrastructural and medical programs in rural South East Asia.
Committee Member, Maningrida Outreach Committee. Committee Secretary, 2015.
Accolades
Order of Australia Medal (OAM). Governor General’s Office of Australia.
Early Career Outstanding Alumnus Award. James Cook University.
Westpac Future Leaders Scholar. Westpac Corporation Pty Ltd.
Queen’s Young Leaders Award, Highly Commended. The Royal Commonwealth Society.
Young Victorian of the Year Award. Victoria Day Council.
Young Australian of the Year Award (for Victoria). Australia Day Council.
Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World. The JCI Group.
Australia’s 30 Under 30. Anthill Media.
Australia’s 50 Best Blokes of The Year Award. Mamamia Media.
Saward Dawson Community Service and Social Impact Award. Victorian Young Achievers Awards.
John Murtagh First Wave Medical Scholar. Monash University.
Harry Hindlip Green Prize for Medicine. Monash University.
Distinction Award: Master of Public Health & Tropical Medicine. James Cook University.
Medical Research
Peer-Reviewer for the journal Australasian Psychiatry.
Yang T, Lew C, Ilangamage A, Gillies R, Kulkarni J. A Study of Cardiac Outcomes After Droperidol Administration in an Inpatient Psychiatric Cohort. Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology. 2023 Apr 18. doi: 10.1097/JCP.0000000000001688
Evans J, Gillies R, Seward L. The value of screening tools in assessing living kidney donors for psychosocial risk factors: A literature review and case series. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. 2023;0(0).
Gillies R, Storch A, Cranwell WC. Deliberate self-harm masquerading as psychogenic purpura: the dangers of misdiagnosis and imperative for psychiatric assessment. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. 2022;56(5):572-573
Evans J, Smith S, Gillies R. ‘See one, do one, teach one’: the imperative for leadership and management training in Australian university medical curricular. Australasian Psychiatry. 2022;30(1):136.
Evans J, Gillies R, Seward L. The imperative for longitudinal follow-up in renal transplant candidates with psychiatric contraindications to surgery. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. 2022;56(2):202-203.
Gillies R, Moseley G, Ng E, Bach L, Zhang J. Psychosis induced by hypothyroidism mistaken for brief reactive psychosis. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. 2021;55(10):1022-1022.
Gillies R, Lim I. Psychiatry in Nazi Germany: an ethical analysis and relevance to psychiatry today. Australasian Psychiatry. 2021;29(4):406-408.
Turner S, Gianella S, Yip J, van Seggelen O, Gillies R, Foster A, Barbati Z, Smith D, Fierer D. Shedding of Hepatitis C Virus in Semen of Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Men. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 2016 Mar;3(2):ofw057. DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofw057. PMID: 27186582; PMCID: PMC4866572.
Fierer D, Gillies R, Yip M, Friedman S, Branch A, Dieterich D and Fiel M. Activated hepatic stellate cells proceed rapid onset liver fibrosis in acute hepatitis C. Oral Presentation: American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) Liver Meeting 2015, San Francisco.
Fierer D, Gillies R, Yip M, Friedman S, Branch A, Dieterich D and Fiel M. Activated hepatic stellate cells proceed rapid onset liver fibrosis in acute hepatitis C. Poster Presentation: International AIDS Conference, Melbourne (2014).
Burke L, Fierer D, Seggelen W, Gillies RD, Yip M, Marks K. Determinants of response to pegylated interferon and ribavirin for acute hepatitis C virus infection in patients with human immunodeficiency virus. Poster Presentation: The NYC Hepatitis C Research Consortium, New York Authors.
Gillies R. Activated hepatic stellate cells proceed rapid onset liver fibrosis in acute hepatitis C. Monash University BMedSc(Honours) Thesis. Research completed at the Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City. Poster and Podium Presentations delivered at Monash University.
