Dear MwilliamD
I'd like to welcome you here to the Support Forum. I'd also like to apologize for the wait in getting any response. This is a very frustrating thing, but sometimes the system does not work as we would wish. Please rest assured that it is the system, not you, that has caused the delay.
Before saying anything else I'd like to point out I"m no doctor and have no peronal experience with SPECT scans. While you do not say what has made you think of this action I'd presume it is from an anxiety condition as you have posted in the Anxiety area.
Anxiety is something I'm very familiar with having had this condition, now under control, for many years. If I've presumed wrong I apologize.
On reading your post There are a couple of points I'd like to make. Looking at the Amen Clinic website it does not list any Australian practices which would mean that in order to receive treatment based on any such scan wiht them it would either involve you traveling to the Amen clinic overseas or having a local medical practitioner specializing in this process act on the results by remote so to speak.
As you probably know SPECT scans are already done in Australia, the Royal Melbourne Children's Hospital for example.
Do you think, provided you are determined on this course of action, it might be easier to find an Australian practitioner?
As far as I can see from looking at this Forum's search function the references to SPECT are not common, and in fact Beyond Blue's own paper:
A guide to what works for anxiety: an evidence-based review (PDF, 4132KB).
does not mention this process.
Looking back on my own experience there were a lot of times where conventional medication and therapy did not seem to be making enough difference, and I might have been tempted to try alternative, however by changing meds and therapies over the years I've now found a regimen and therapy that suits me and does not have appreciable side effects.
I would like it if you came back and offered your thoughts
Croix
