I graduated from Tufts Medical School and completed my residency trainIng at Tufts/ New England Medical Center. I am a Board Certified Psychiatrist and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. When I first moved to Maine in 1988 I worked at Jackson’s Brook Institute which is now Spring Harbor Hospital for two years. I have been in private practice in Brunswick, Maine and on the staff at Mid Coast Hospital since 1991. In the past I have provided general adult psychiatric care, including diagnostic evaluations, medication treatment, and psychotherapy for mood disorders, anxiety, PTSD, personality disorders and more. However, over the years I have developed more training and expertise in the specialty area of perinatal psychiatry and women’s reproductive psychiatry. This includes the treatment of women during pregnancy and in the postpartum period, dealing with pregnancy loss, infertility, preconception counseling, and mental health issues related to the menstrual cycle and menopause. I have taught extensively throughout Maine in various settings about perinatal psychiatry. As I have moved into a part-time practice, I have chosen to focus solely on perinatal and women’s reproductive mental health.

I most enjoy and prefer to provide both the psychotherapy and the medication treatment; my focus is not exclusively medication treatment and believe that medication treatment should always be accompanied by psychotherapy. I consider it a great privilege to do this kind of work which allows me to be let into my patients’ personal thoughts and feelings in very intimate ways and I find it very gratifying to build trusting relationships which I feel are a huge component of healing in the treatment.