Eli Kotler

Eli is a Consultant Psychiatrist and Psychodynamic Psychotherapist. He is the Medical Director of Malvern Private Hospital, an addiction and trauma hospital in Melbourne. Eli is the Australian Course Director for the Certificate in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies. He is also still struggling to understand himself after 5 years of therapy. 

Clinically, Eli works in a psychodynamic framework, and attempts to help his patients find freedom from their addictions and trauma through relational experiences, and experiential self-awareness. He is part of the AFL Player’s Association referral network for addiction issues, and his interests in depth-psychology and neuroscience led him to establish the Melbourne Neuropsychoanalytic Group, part of the international Neuropsychoanalysis Association.   

Eli has extensive research experience with novel therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases, and is the Principle Investigator on an upcoming MDMA-assisted therapy trial for PTSD (Emyria).  

As a psychiatric trainee, Eli was awarded the Royal College of Psychiatrists Trainee Prize for his Scholarly Project on Neurodegeneration and Depression, as well as a Research Committee Trainee award for his work on Philosophy of Mind. As an adjunct lecturer at Monash University, he oversees medical students on their addiction medicine rotation. He has been invited as a keynote speaker to several conferences and meetings to discuss addictions, trauma and psychedelics. Eli sits on the Victorian Medical Panels and is an expert witness in historical abuse cases. He also sits on the inaugural Clinical Advisory Group for the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation. Eli is an Associate Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators, and is a member of the Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs.