Sentiens Health was born from a shared commitment to elevate the standard of care in mental health, psychiatry, and pain management.
Derived from the Latin sentiens, meaning feeling, perceiving, and conscious, the name reflects our belief that healing begins when we attune to the whole person — their body, mind, story, and environment.
Brand story
Sentiens Health was born from a shared commitment to elevate the standard of care in mental health, psychiatry, and pain management.
James and Jeremy Tannenbaum, the founders of Sentiens, have travelled different paths through medicine, psychology, and integrative health — but their vision has alignment. From early conversations at home, it was clear they shared a deep interest in the complexities of the human mind, the nature of suffering, and the science of healing.
Their journey includes decades of experience across psychiatry, occupational therapy, trauma-informed care, and chronic pain management — alongside a growing passion for emerging treatments, including psychedelic-assisted therapy and cutting-edge neuroscience.
Through this lens, they’ve witnessed firsthand the gaps in traditional models of care and the transformative power of personalised, evidence-based, and human-centred support.
Sentiens Health represents the fusion of this knowledge, passion, and purpose.
At Sentiens Health, we deliver integrated care that’s grounded in science and guided by compassion. Whether it’s helping someone manage persistent pain, navigate psychiatric treatment, or access innovative therapies, our goal is simple: to reduce suffering and restore function in a way that is respectful, empowering, and forward-thinking.
We’re building a future where recovery is not just possible — it’s personalised, measurable, and meaningful.
Dr Jeremy Tannenbaum
BSc, MBBS (Hons.), FRANZCP, FFPMANZCA
Dr Jeremy Tannenbaum is a dual-qualified Specialist in Pain Medicine and Psychiatry. He completed his Fellowship with the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists before undertaking further subspecialty training in Pain Medicine, earning a second Fellowship with the Faculty of Pain Medicine (ANZCA).
Dr Tannenbaum has special interests in emerging and innovative treatments including neuromodulation, psychedelic-assisted therapies, digital health transformation, chronic illness service development, and medicolegal medicine. He also provides independent expert medicolegal opinions as a founding specialist with Tikva Medicolegal.
Dr Tannenbaum practices harm minimisation principles, focusing on opioid minimisation, especially of typical ‘morphine-like’ opioids, non-opioid pharmacotherapy, and non-pharmacological management, including minimally invasive pain procedures, and psychosocial and lifestyle interventions. He does not prescribe codeine, morphine, oxycodone, hydromorphone, methadone, fentanyl, ketamine or any injectable medications. Dr Tannenbaum is not currently routinely accepting patients for long-term psychiatric management.
James Tannenbaum
BSc (Health Promotion), Master of Occupational Therapy
James is an experienced mental health professional with 20 years of experience in the field. As an Occupational Therapist, James specialises in helping people with mental health issues.
James also a personal trainer, group therapist, and mental health trainer. As a health promotion practitioner, he has been interested in and involved with health-related branding and social marketing.
James has worked with a number of startups in the health industry. In addition to clinical work, he is also a consultant for businesses on health-related issues.
James works with other allied health professionals and medical practitioners including GP’s, psychiatrists and pain specialists.
Values
Compassion. Service. Authenticity. Reliability.
Values need to be upfront. These are our values. Sentiens Health is about providing compassionate mental health services. It is about behaving with authenticity. It about being reliable. Reliability means follow through and to build trust.
There are many ways to work through mental health issues, however only a few key things really matter. The first step is finding a professional that you feel comfortable to talk to. Secondly, it is important to start focusing on what matters without getting lost in all the options and pop psych tips out there.
Mental health and pain care services should always be safe and high quality. As a group of registered health professionals in Australia, we are accountable to our patients, clients and their families as well as professional registration bodies as well as our colleagues.
Our approach is to focus on the big picture about what affects our health and function. We truly take an integrated ‘holistic’ approach.