We believe people can reach their full potential in function and wellbeing.
Our workshops, webinars, and resource library are designed to share and evolve the Focalength Method™ with professionals, carers and consumers, together as partners.
About The Focalength Method™
Focalength Method™ is a systematic approach that makes us constantly aware of each part of the person, to optimise holistic treatment. A mental health condition (e.g., ADHD) never exists in a void. It exists within a dynamic ecosystem of the whole person: physical, emotional, belief systems, coping strategies, etc. We can’t manage it effectively without seeing the complete person in which it exists.
That’s a challenge – Focalength Method™ is a solution.
The Focalength Method™ is an outgrowth of founder Dr. Tony Mastroianni’s experience practising psychiatry since 1990, across three continents, in psychiatric hospitals and private practice, specialising in adult ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) and Schizophrenia.
His work in the rehabilitation of mentally ill persons in forensic settings drove him to go beyond just treating a diagnosis, to holistically treating the whole person to be more functional, to minimise risk. This led to the development of an innovative assessment and management method based on function and capacity, the Focalength Method™.
About Dr. Tony Mastroianni
Tony is a registered medical practitioner and consultant psychiatrist in New South Wales, with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery Degree from Sydney University.
Tony is a Fellow of the Royal Australia and New Zealand College of Psychiatry. He received his psychiatric training in Sydney. He subsequently undertook post-graduate fellowship training in Forensic Psychiatry at the Institute for Forensic Psychiatry, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, and a training scholarship in Italian general psychiatry at the University of Pavia, Italy.
Tony served as a consultant psychiatrist to the NSW Justice Health Service (1997-2016), directing the rehabilitation inpatient units at the Sydney Forensic Hospital and Long Bay Prison. He uniquely introduced the use of intramuscular Clozapine in Australia to treat treatment-resistant schizophrenia in high-risk patients.
His experience includes:
Consultant psychiatrist to the Drug and Alcohol Unit, Northside Clinic, Greenwich, NSW
Supervisor of senior psychiatric registrar training and medical student teaching in NSW Justice Health (1997-2016)
Conjoint Lecturer, University of NSW (2007-2019)
Specialist lecturer in Adult ADHD (and its comorbidity) and Psychiatric Rehabilitation, lecturing across Australia, New Zealand and Asia
Serving adult psychiatric clients in private practice in Greenwich, NSW, since 1997.
As a teenager, Tony visited Italy and was transfixed by Michaelangelo’s statue, La Pietà.
The idea that someone could “see” the beautiful figure inside a block of stone and bring its full potential to “life” fascinated Tony. It inspired Tony’s approach to his practise of psychiatry.
