Dr Helen Siddle

Dr Helen Siddle is a Brisbane psychiatrist with more than two decades of clinical experience. Her areas of special interest are the psychiatry of old age, general adult psychiatry and civil forensic psychiatry.

She studied medicine at the University of Queensland, graduating MBBS in 1994, and completed her psychiatry training in Queensland, including advanced training in the psychiatry of old age. She was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists in 2005. She is an accredited member of the Faculty of Psychiatry of Old Age (since 2006) and the Faculty of Adult Psychiatry, and a member of the Faculty of Forensic Psychiatry.

Dr Siddle worked as a consultant psychiatrist in the public sector at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, the Princess Alexandra Hospital and The Park, Centre for Mental Health at Wolston Park. She moved into private practice in 2009 and has practised from her rooms at Watkins Medical Centre, Spring Hill, since 2016.

Her clinical work has included public and private memory clinics, and the assessment, diagnosis and management of adult patients, predominantly patients over 65.

Alongside clinical practice, Dr Siddle has provided independent medical assessments and expert opinions for more than fifteen years. Her work covers workplace injury, insurance claims, work capacity, and cognitive capacity: testamentary capacity, financial capacity, and capacity to make or change an enduring power of attorney.

She has been a member of the Psychiatric Assessment Tribunals within the Office of Industrial Relations Tribunals since 2011, and Deputy Chair since 2017. She was a member of the WorkCover Queensland Independent Medical Examiner panel from 2017 to 2025, and has provided consultation to Australian Retirement Trust (formerly QSuper) on psychiatric matters since 2018.