My experience includes extensive treatment of most major neuropsychiatric disorders impacting children, adolescents, and adults; and extensive study of mental health care delivery systems and practice arrangements. In solo private practice for the last 25 years, I have focused on comprehensively individualized, expert confidential care primarily via psychodynamic psychotherapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, and the minimum effective dosage of medicines which have evolved over the last seventy years to comprise the modern psychopharmacologic formulary. Much of my focus has been on treatment-resistant mood, anxiety and behavioral disorders resulting from neurophysiologic dysregulation (sometimes driving other problems such as migraine headache and seizure disorder), severely adverse experiences and traumatic brain injury. In our collaboration, I enjoy working with families flexibly in support of their child or adolescent as part of the care plan. For adult patients family support can also be helpful, but is always at your discretion. Lately, I am glad to say that telemedicine has opened the door for me to serve patients from Central Oregon as well as Southeast Alaska.

A North Carolina native, I graduated from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Medicine in 1987. To pursue an interest in health policy and patient advocacy, I earned the Master of Public Health degree in Maternal and Child Health from the UNC School of Public Health in 1989. I completed a four-year Residency in Psychiatry at UNC in 1992, which overlapped with a two-year Fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, completed at UNC in 1993.

Beginning work in Juneau, Alaska in October 1993 as a Staff Psychiatrist at Bartlett Memorial Hospital, I moved into solo outpatient private practice in October 1995. Having passed extensive written and oral examinations with the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, I hold Diplomate certifications in Psychiatry (January 1994) and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (September 1994).