Adult Psychiatrist

FAQs

1. What is your approach to working with patients?

My practice is grounded in a warm, person-centered, and integrative approach to psychiatric care. Rather than fitting you into a diagnostic category or a one-size-fits-all treatment algorithm, my goal is to understand you as a whole person — your history, your neurobiology, your relationships, your life circumstances, and what you are working toward.

A central part of that process is developing clarity about what is actually driving your symptoms. Mental health conditions are rarely the result of a single cause. Biological factors, psychological patterns, relational dynamics, life transitions, and situational stressors often interact in complex ways — and the details of that picture shape everything about how we work together and what an appropriate, evidence-based treatment plan looks like for you.

My clinical work draws on several therapeutic frameworks, including psychodynamic psychotherapy — which helps us explore how early experiences, relational patterns, and unconscious processes contribute to present-day struggles — as well as Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)-informed skills work, which builds practical tools for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, and mindfulness. I integrate these approaches alongside Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) techniques, tailoring the work to what is most useful for you at any given stage of treatment.

I am committed to providing neurodiversity-affirming care — recognizing that neurological difference is a natural part of human variation, and that treatment should support your strengths and goals rather than pressure you toward a narrow standard of "normal." I also offer integrative and reproductive psychiatry, attending thoughtfully to how hormonal health, reproductive transitions (including peripartum and perimenopausal periods), and whole-body wellness intersect with mental health.

A comprehensive treatment plan may include medication management, psychotherapy, and lifestyle-based interventions — including fitness, herb and supplement recommendations, nutritional support, and mindfulness and meditation practices — used in combination or individually, depending on your needs and goals. I believe that meaningful, lasting change requires consistency and enough time to see what a well-constructed plan can actually do. My commitment is to work through that process alongside you, adjusting as we learn what works, and keeping your health and well-being goals at the center of everything we do.

2. How do you integrate medication management?

Nearly every treatment plan I develop includes both medication management and psychotherapy in some form. Whether we are discussing your interest in working with a dedicated psychotherapist for weekly care, or you are newer to therapeutic approaches, our appointments will include more than a recommendation for therapy — they will include direct exposure to evidence-based psychotherapeutic tools. Even within medication management visits, I draw on psychodynamic, CBT, and DBT-informed techniques to deepen the work we are doing together. Psychotherapy has a strong and well-established evidence base for the treatment of depression, generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, PTSD, and many other conditions, and I believe it is most powerful when it is woven into care from the beginning — not added on later.

A central aim of my practice is helping patients understand that psychotherapy is not a supplement to psychiatric care — it is a cornerstone of it. I work at the pace of building genuine trust, and I make thoughtful, personalized referrals to psychotherapists when more intensive, specialized, or frequent therapeutic work is clinically indicated. Collaboration with other providers is something I take seriously, and I aim to ensure that all aspects of your care are well-coordinated and working in the same direction.

Regarding medication management, I bring a strong clinical foundation and up-to-date knowledge of the evidence base for pharmacologic treatment across a broad range of mental health conditions. I stay current with emerging research in psychopharmacology, including advances in treatments for depression, anxiety, ADHD, mood disorders, and reproductive psychiatry — as well as promising developments in areas such as neuromodulation and novel pharmacologic mechanisms. My approach to prescribing is never formulaic. I weigh the evidence carefully alongside your individual history, other medical diagnoses, goals, and values, with the aim of finding the right fit for you — and adjusting thoughtfully as your needs evolve over time.

3. What types of concerns do you specialize in treating?

I practice as an adult psychiatrist with a deep commitment to both integrative psychiatry and reproductive psychiatry — two areas that, in my view, reflect what comprehensive, person-centered psychiatric care can and should look like.

Integrative Psychiatry

My integrative approach draws on a broader toolkit than general psychiatry alone. In addition to medication management and psychotherapy, I incorporate evidence-informed interventions including nutritional psychiatry, targeted supplementation and herbal medicine, fitness and movement, and mindfulness and meditation practices. I also make thoughtful referrals to integrative clinicians as well as complementary and alternative medicine practitioners when those modalities are appropriate and aligned with your goals. The aim is not to replace evidence-based treatment, but to expand what we can offer — addressing the whole person, not just the diagnosis.

Reproductive Psychiatry

Hormonal health and mental health are deeply interconnected, and this intersection is an area I am particularly committed to. I provide specialized care for:

- PMDD 

- PCOS/PMOS

- Fertility, Infertility, and IVF-related concerns

- Perinatal Mental Health, including depression and anxiety during pregnancy and postpartum

- Hormone-Related Mood Disorders, including perimenopause and menopause

Reproductive transitions are some of the most significant — and most underserved — periods in a person's mental health journey. I work to ensure patients navigating these experiences receive knowledgeable, compassionate, and clinically rigorous care.

General Adult Psychiatry

Across my practice, I support patients navigating a wide range of mental health concerns, including:

- Depression and anxiety disorders

- OCD and PTSD

- ADHD

- Substance use

- Performance-related concerns, including work with college students, athletes and high-achieving professionals

Drawing on medication management, psychotherapy — including psychodynamic, DBT-skills based, and CBT-informed approaches — and integrative and lifestyle interventions, my goal is to build a treatment plan that is as individual as you are, grounded in the best available evidence, and oriented toward meaningful, lasting change.

4. What's something you want your patients to know about you?

I was a college athlete — a competitive cross country runner — and that experience shaped me in ways that continue to inform how I show up as a physician. Training and competing taught me something about endurance that no classroom could: that meaningful progress is rarely linear, that the hardest stretches are often where the most important growth happens, and that showing up consistently — even on the difficult days — is what ultimately creates change. Those lessons have stayed with me through the most demanding moments of caring for people in some of their most vulnerable moments, and I draw on them still.

5. What do you believe is the most important part of the healing process?

One of the most important parts of the healing process is rebuilding and strengthening trust — trust in yourself, trust in your clinician, and trust that healing is genuinely possible for you.

So much of what brings people to psychiatric care involves some erosion of that trust. People often arrive having lost confidence in their own instincts, having had experiences in healthcare that left them feeling unseen or misunderstood, or simply having tried before and not found what they were looking for. Rebuilding that foundation is not a preliminary step before the real work begins — it is the work, at least in significant part. The therapeutic relationship itself carries healing potential, and I take that seriously in every appointment.

Trust in the clinical relationship means feeling that your experience is genuinely heard, that your goals — not a generic treatment template — are driving the plan, and that your clinician will stay the course with you through the complexity and nonlinearity that real change involves. It means transparency about what we know, what we don't, and why we are making the recommendations we are. Drawing on psychodynamic principles, I pay close attention to the relational dimensions of our work together, because how we relate in the room often reflects — and can help heal — patterns that extend far beyond it.

Trust in yourself is perhaps the deepest goal of the work. Whether we are building emotional regulation skills through DBT-informed practice, exploring the roots of longstanding patterns through a psychodynamic lens, or supporting you through a major reproductive or life transition, the aim is always to return agency to you — to help you develop the insight, the tools, and the confidence to navigate your life with greater ease and intention.

And trust that healing is possible — even when it doesn't yet feel that way — is something I hold for my patients until they are able to hold it for themselves.

6. What kinds of clients do you work with best?

I welcome people from all walks of life and believe that everyone deserves compassionate, personalized care regardless of their background, circumstances, or where they are in their mental health journey. My approach is to meet you exactly where you are, adapting to your unique needs and pace so that our work together feels supportive and tailored to your needs and goals from day one of our work together.

7. Do you have experience with trauma or PTSD?

I am a board-certified adult psychiatrist with extensive experience treating patients who have experienced complex trauma and PTSD. I have experience supporting patients who have lived through a wide range of traumatic experiences, including intergenerational trauma, war and forced displacement, family separation, sexual assault, and race- and gender-based violence.

My approach is whole-person and integrative, drawing on psychodynamic psychotherapy, trauma-informed care, and medication management to create treatment that is tailored to your unique history, identity, and goals. I will work with you to identify symptoms that are most impactful to your life and treatment recommendations to manage these experiences. For people managing trauma and PTSD symptoms, I will work with you to identify a robust plan for treatment that includes referrals for trauma-focused psychotherapy.

8. What do you enjoy doing outside of work?

I enjoy hiking, running, gardening and spending time with my family.