Can treatments offset the skin changes?

Partially and genuinely — collagen-stimulating treatments do measurable work in these years. The consult sets honest expectations.

Do I need a referral?

No. Anyone can request a consultation directly. If your concern needs a GP or a specialist instead, we will say so and point you to the right place.

What happens at a first visit?

Up to forty-five minutes with your practitioner: your history, an examination, and an honest plan with costs in writing. No treatment at a first visit.

Your first consultation is with Dr Kiran Shahid, Dr Anthony Chaffee or Dr Kristy Truong. A doctor assesses you before any medical treatment, and every treatment plan is made and overseen by a doctor.

Can treatments offset the skin changes?

Partially and genuinely — collagen-stimulating treatments do measurable work in these years. The consult sets honest expectations.

Do I need a referral?

No. Anyone can request a consultation directly. If your concern needs a GP or a specialist instead, we will say so and point you to the right place.

What happens at a first visit?

Up to forty-five minutes with your practitioner: your history, an examination, and an honest plan with costs in writing. No treatment at a first visit.

Your first consultation is with Dr Kiran Shahid, Dr Anthony Chaffee or Dr Kristy Truong. A doctor assesses you before any medical treatment, and every treatment plan is made and overseen by a doctor.

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Concerns · Life stages

Perimenopause and menopause

Q: Is the consultation fee redeemable?

Yes. Consultation with a physician — 45 minutes, $250, redeemable against treatment within 30 days.

Skin, hair and energy changing all at once — and why.

Doctor-run · A physician assesses you first
Planned by one doctor
Inside a medical centre · Discreet by design

The Skin Physician

Dr Kiran Shahid

MBBS, FRACGP · Practising in Perth since 1991

AHPRA MED0001577305

Consultation with a physician — 45 minutes, $250, redeemable against treatment within 30 days.

Doctor-run · A physician assesses you first
Planned by one doctor
Inside a medical centre · Discreet by design

Dr Kiran Shahid — MBBS, FRACGP, Fellow of the Australian Institute of Dermatology · Practising in Perth since 1991 · AHPRA MED0001577305

Dr Anthony Chaffee — Medical Director, Elevate Medical Clinics · Former neurosurgical registrar, SCGH · AHPRA MED0002263360

Dr Kristy Truong — US fellowship-trained in facial plastic and reconstructive surgery · Georgetown, Iowa, North Carolina · AHPRA MED0002351485

What's going on

The hormonal shift of perimenopause reaches everywhere at once: skin dries and thins, collagen drops, hair sheds, pigmentation appears, sleep fragments, energy dips. It can feel like accelerating age. It is physiology — and much of it is addressable.

The useful first step is a proper medical conversation about what is driving what. From there: skin quality work, hair assessment, and the metabolic conversation with Dr Chaffee — sequenced sensibly, never oversold.

Why it happens

Oestrogen decline affecting skin and hair
Collagen loss accelerating in these years
Sleep and energy disruption
Metabolic change redistributing weight

What can realistically be done

Skin quality programme

Needling, regenerative treatment and medical skin care for thinning, drying skin.

Hair assessment

Menopause-related thinning is common and often improvable.

Metabolic and longevity consult

Dr Chaffee on sleep, muscle, metabolism and energy.

What can't

Hormone therapy decisions belong with your GP — conveniently, in the same building. We treat the skin and hair consequences; the hormonal conversation is a medical one, had properly.

Who to see

The Skin Physician

Dr Kiran Shahid

Skin Health & Skin Medicine

Dr Kiran Shahid is a dermatology-trained general practitioner — MBBS, FRACGP, and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Dermatology — practising in Perth since 1991..

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