Children and Adolescents
Young people are the heart and foundation of this practice. They are a complex and vulnerable population. Investing into their futures creates long tails of impact on their lives and society at large. Treatment requires an understanding of the broad range of typical development as well as its deviations.
Having strong training, established experience, and a firm understanding of evidence-based interventions allows me to identify the general approaches of how to support children through difficult times. Even then, though, each child is unique, requiring effortful and attentive care. These, along with collaboration with parents, help to move treatment forward.
Conditions treated
I consider myself a “general” pediatric psychiatrist, meaning I comfortably treat many conditions in children and adolescents, such as:
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD/ADHD)
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Mood Disorders: Depression, Bipolar Disorder
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Anxiety Disorders: Panic, Generalized, Social, Specific, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Performance problems, and others
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Disruptive Behavioral Disorders: Oppositional-Defiant Disorder
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High-functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder (formerly called Aspergers)
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Adjustment problems: Parental divorce, Relationships, Grief, Medical Illness, typical challenges within adolescence, etc.
Areas of expertise
My preferred treatment conditions (i.e., “areas of particular expertise”) include:
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD/ADHD)
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Anxiety Disorders (especially OCD, Generalized Anxiety, and Phobias)
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Adjustment problems
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Challenges in the intellectually gifted population
In each of these conditions, treatment recommendations tend to be multimodal: identifying therapeutic targets, considering medication, parental support, academic setting accommodations, and others.
Therapeutically, I offer an eclectic but deliberate style, customizing components of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Interpersonal Therapy (IPT), TEAM, and supportive approaches.