Dr Tessa King

Country : Australia
Location : Melbourne
Languages : English
Gender : Female

MBBS
BA
EMC
FRACGP

ADHD
Eating Disorders
Mental Health
Women’s Health
Sports Medicine
Exercise and Nutrition

Dr Tessa King (Tess) is a specialist mental health general practitioner. She is passionate about supporting people with ADHD, eating disorders and other mental health conditions and transforming their quality of life through evidence based mindfulness, nutrition, exercise, allied health and meditation. Tess also works as a specialist women’s health GP for Jean Hailes. She works as a medical content expert, reviewing course materials, health professional guidelines, patient information sheets and delivering webinars and educational talks for Jean Hailes. She’s also appeared as a women’s health expert on Triple J and ABC radio, and has been interviewed by The Age, SBS, The Herald Sun, The Daily Telegraph and The Sydney Morning Herald. (She does not treat ADHD patients through Jean Hailes).

Tess has worked extensively in elite sport and recently returned from the Olympics in Paris where she worked as one of the Australian team doctors. Since 2021 she has been a part of the medical team for the Australian Open. This season she is also working as a Match Day Support Doctor for the AFLW. She also runs a specialist mental health and women’s health clinic for elite athletes.

Tess recently moved to Torquay and finished up at South Yarra Medical, where she worked as a generalist GP for over five years and where she supervised GP registrars for the RACGP. When she’s not working, she can be found training or competing in a CrossFit gym or hitting the slopes with her partner and 3 daughters who are all much better skiers than her.