Dr Libby Ashton-Jones

“ I want to hear my patients and their stories, because they are the experts in their own bodies."

Dr Libby Ashton-Jones operates as a Women's Health GP on a simple premise: that it is a privilege to work in partnership with her patients, meeting them where they are rather than dictating where they should be. Her role is to work alongside each patient as they navigate their health, helping them find a path forward that actually fits their life. She listens to the story first, because she believes patients are the experts in their own body.

Dr Ashton-Jones started medicine expecting to specialise in one discipline. What she discovered was a pull toward variety and a desire to work across the full breadth of medicine. That path led her to become a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners — a Specialist General Practitioner — and she has spent her career since building a specialisation in women's health, an area that demands a particularly nuanced approach given the intersection of hormonal, mental, and cardiometabolic health, looked at holistically rather than in isolation. Dr Ashton-Jones has spent three years with Family Planning Australia, some of it in Dubbo and the Hunter region, where she helped support higher-level medical issues for women.

"It is my honour to be entrusted with a person's health, which has been a driving force to be at the forefront of continuous learning and developing new skills," she says. That drive has shaped the two areas she has come to care about most: women's health and mental health, both of which she considers underserved.

As a Women's Health GP, Dr Ashton-Jones supports patients through PMOS (formerly known as PCOS) and endometriosis, contraception counselling and IUD insertion, sexual health, and the transition through perimenopause and menopause.

She provides antenatal and perinatal care, including lactation support and infant sleep support for new parents navigating the early, disorienting months. She also provides medical terminations, offering that care without judgment, for patients who need it.

In mental health, Dr Ashton-Jones supports patients through ongoing care and mental health treatment plans. She is one of a limited number of GPs who have completed endorsed ADHD prescriber training under the new NSW reforms — qualified, unconditional from October 2026, to provide the very first prescription for a newly diagnosed patient, not just manage an existing one. Combined with her role as a Continuation Prescriber, this means she can support a patient through the entire ADHD journey: diagnosis, treatment initiation, and ongoing management, without the long wait times that typically come with a referral to a paediatrician or psychiatrist. 

She is also a committed advocate for LGBTQIA+ patients, including those seeking gender affirming care — an area she believes deserves GPs who show up prepared, informed, and without hesitation.

Underneath all of it is the same instinct that led her to general practice in the first place: a resistance to narrowing her focus when there are always more ways to be useful to the person in front of her.

Beyond the Clinic

Outside the clinic, Libby is a mother of two, which means her weekends tend to involve equal parts impromptu dance recitals and gentle interventions to stop balls from being thrown at things they shouldn't be thrown at. When she does get a quiet moment, it's usually spent lost in a good book or piecing together a jigsaw puzzle — and lately, pilates has become part of the mix too, a recent conversion she's fully embraced. It's a chaos, she says, that keeps her grounded — and gives her genuine, lived insight into the early parenthood questions so many of her patients bring to her.