Greetings! I am a psychiatrist and am Board Certified in General Psychiatry as well as Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. I provide what I believe is a unique range of psychiatric consultation and treatment with adults, adolescents, children, and families. I offer:

• Evaluation of your emotional and medical-psychiatric needs - These evaluations are often conducted collaboratively, in partnership with a psychologist, neuropsychologist, and at times a neurologist.
• A full treatment repertoire consisting of medically informed psychiatric treatment - Treatment, usually, but not always, includes psychotherapy. It may also involve medication or other biologically based interventions. Psychotherapy, when used, is always results-oriented and focused on the problems for which you came to treatment. It may be either time-limited, or ongoing and in-depth. It may be insight-oriented or emphasize behavioral modification techniques.
• Bi-weekly consultation groups for psychotherapists and allied professionals - Continuing education (CE) credits are available to psychologists, social workers, or MFTs who participate.
• Individual or group consultation to therapists and educators experiencing impasses.

Please refer to the Services page for a more complete list.

I am available to work with any complex, psychologically relevant problem affecting a person's life.

Together with colleagues at the Center for Collaborative Psychiatry and Psychology, I have developed a technically sophisticated method for psychiatric evaluation and treatment that emphasizes accuracy and accountability. This approach, paralleling the diagnostic and treatment process in medicine, includes a battery of selected neuropsychological and psychological personality tests, meetings with others who are central to you or your child's life such as family members and teachers, and needed consultations with specialists in areas such as medicine and education.

This comprehensive evaluation is carried out collaboratively between us as we work hand-in-hand toward a creative understanding of the difficulties you or your child are experiencing and their solutions. While the evaluation itself begins an exploration of these problems, it also serves as the start of a goal-directed treatment. Treatment is thoughtfully and collaboratively planned, and, whenever possible, time-limited. I will make referrals, as needed, to a selected list of professionals, including psychotherapists, educators, and practitioners from other professional disciplines.

To learn more about this diagnostic and treatment process, please refer to How I Work.

It is important to note that at first the assessment and treatment described here may be more expensive than their counterparts in conventional psychiatry and psychology, since they involve psychological or neuropsychological testing and consultations with others. However, over time, the costs are typically less, and often considerably less, with this approach since it is likely to be distinctly more accurate and efficient. The collaborative model I use and the protocols for making a diagnosis and monitoring treatment are described in my four published books, culminating in my current book, Evidence from Within: A Paradigm for Clinical Practice.