About me
Hi, I’m Dr Justine Dreyer, and I’m a psychiatrist based in George in the Garden Route.
Originally from the Eastern Cape, I moved to Pretoria to study Medicine
and this was also where I married and started a family. After completing
my medical studies, internship, community service and later obtaining
my Masters in Psychiatry with distinction from the University of
Pretoria, I moved to George in 2019 with my family in search of a better
way of living closer to nature and away from the fast pace of city
life. For the first two years living in George, I worked in the public
sector providing consultation and outreach services all over the Garden
Route and Central Karoo areas. During this time I developed a good
understanding of the public sector mental health services available in
the area.
Moving to the private sector in 2021 has allowed me to refocus on direct
patient care and has expanded the treatment options available for me to
utilise in partnering with my patients.
I treat adolescents and adults with a broad range of psychiatric disorders. I have special interests in
- Women’s mental health
- The christian-psychiatric interface
- Chronic pain conditions
- Addiction psychiatry
- The neurobiological basis of psychiatric disorders
- Interventional psychiatric treatments such as repetitive transcranial
magnetic stimulation (rTMS) and ketamine.
I work within a biopsychosocial-spiritual and multidisciplinary framework model, which means that I view
psychiatric illness and it’s treatment as having biological, psychological, social and spiritual components. I also believe that individualised and evidence-based treatment approaches have the best
chance of success.
Please note that I have a PART TIME psychiatric practice. For this reason, I only accept a limited number of new patients.