Philosophy

I strive to provide care for the whole person. This means developing a meaningful understanding of who my patient is, where they’re coming from, and what they’re working toward—not just what diagnoses they may have. Leveraging my medical education and my advanced training in psychotherapy, I integrate biological, psychological, and social perspectives to understand the difficulties my patients and their families face and to help them come up with solutions.

I believe in providing therapies that work.

To help people reach their goals, I take pride in practicing thoughtfully according to the highest quality and most modern scientific evidence available—understood through the lens of my training, education, and experience.

Medication therapy can be a useful tool in behavioral healthcare, and I recommend them thoughtfully when I think they can help. On the one hand, medications can be life-saving. On the other, talk therapy can make for the deepest and most lasting changes. Like the best psychiatrists I know, I seldom recommend medication treatment without also integrating behavioral, lifestyle, psychotherapeutic, and other non-medication elements of good care. Above all, though, it’s the partnership of the patient-doctor relationship that is the cornerstone of successful care.