Services

Psychiatric Evaluation

A comprehensive initial assessment designed to understand your symptoms, history, and treatment goals in depth.

This includes:

  • Review of psychiatric and medical history

  • Exploration of current symptoms and functional impact

  • Diagnostic clarification when needed

  • Discussion of treatment options, including medication and non-medication approaches

Following evaluation, a personalized treatment plan is developed collaboratively.

Medication Management

Ongoing psychiatric medication management is provided with a focus on safety, clarity, and individualized care.

This includes:

  • Initiation of psychiatric medications when appropriate

  • Careful monitoring of response and side effects

  • Thoughtful dose adjustments over time

  • Education about expected benefits and limitations

Medication decisions are made collaboratively, with transparency around risks, alternatives, and goals of treatment.

Collaborative Care and Consultation

Collaboration with therapists, primary care providers, and dietitians is a core part of this practice when appropriate.

This is especially important in:

  • OCD treatment (ERP coordination)

  • Eating disorder care (multidisciplinary alignment)

  • Complex or treatment-resistant presentations

With patient consent, communication with your care team helps ensure cohesive treatment planning.

OCD-Focused Psychiatric Care

Specialized medication management for obsessive-compulsive disorder, including:

  • Intrusive thoughts and rumination

  • Compulsive behaviors (checking, reassurance seeking, avoidance)

  • Contamination fears

  • Moral or existential OCD themes

Medication support is provided in coordination with evidence-based therapy approaches such as Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) whenever applicable.

The goal is to support therapeutic progress, not replace it.

Eating Disorder Collaborative Care:

Medication management for individuals experiencing eating disorders and disordered eating patterns, including:

  • Restrictive eating behaviors

  • Binge-restrict cycles

  • Body image distress

  • Anxiety related to food and eating

Care is delivered with attention to medical safety, psychological complexity, and coordination with therapy and dietitian support when involved.

The focus is stabilization, support of recovery-oriented treatment, and reducing psychiatric barriers to care.

Substance Use Disorder Psychiatric Care

Psychiatric medication management for substance use concerns is provided with a focus on stabilization, harm reduction, and integrated, long-term recovery support.

This includes care for individuals experiencing:

  • Alcohol use disorder

  • Cannabis or stimulant misuse

  • Prescription medication misuse (when clinically appropriate to manage in outpatient care)

  • Co-occurring substance use and anxiety, depression, OCD, or eating disorder symptoms

Substance use concerns often exist alongside underlying anxiety, trauma, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, or mood disorders. Treatment is most effective when these conditions are understood and addressed together rather than in isolation.