Patient-centered, evidence-based mental health care

I am a board-certified psychiatrist with a private practice based in San Francisco, currently serving patients throughout California via telehealth. I obtained my medical degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, graduating as a distinguished medical scholar after completing a research fellowship in psychopharmacology. I completed my psychiatry residency training at UCSF. While there, I participated in an NIH R25 research traineeship with the goal of contributing to the emerging field of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. Ultimately, however, I found myself most rewarded by one-on-one patient care and focused the final year of my training on honing my clinical skills, with an emphasis on gaining experience with various psychotherapy techniques, including psychodynamic, relational, mindfulness-based, cognitive-behavioral, and dialectical-behavioral approaches. I also pursued specialized training in Addiction Psychiatry at the San Francisco VA Medical Center. After completing psychiatry residency, I pursued additional psychotherapy training through the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. I am committed to updating my clinical skills through supervision and continuing education.

I work with older adolescents and adults to address a wide range of problems including mood and anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, trauma-related disorders, and substance abuse. I also enjoy working with patients for whom challenges do not fit neatly into a diagnostic category, such as relationship issues, major life transitions, career obstacles, burnout, or struggles related to meaning making or sense of purpose. In my practice, I utilize an integrative approach that incorporates various psychotherapy techniques based on a patient’s unique needs as well as a careful approach to medication prescribing informed by my background in psychopharmacology and over a decade of post-training clinical experience.