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As a psychiatrist who has trained extensively in psychotherapy: I believe psychotherapy is an integral part of understanding ourselves. I offer a combination of medication management and psychotherapy. I require my patients to be in psychotherapy while doing medication management either with me or another provider.
Absolutely, if you already have a therapist I would be happy to work collaboratively with them while you see me for medication management.
A primary care provider collaborates with all consulting physicians, including psychiatrists, to monitor and treat any treatable and preventable. As part of your overall wellness, I require you to establish care with a primary care physician.
I offer both in-person visits in a beautifully decorated office in San Francisco and virtual visits.
For virtual visits, per California telemedicine regulations, the patients should be located in the state of California at the time of the visit. Please note that in some cases you may need to see me in person from time to time, such as if you are on certain medications.
The first consultation is a get-to-know-you visit, its 60 minutes in duration, we will go over your current conditions and past history. I make knowing my patients a priority before prescribing medication. I believe in "treat the person, not the diagnosis", which means for some patients it may take more than one visit to come up with a comprehensive treatment plan that is individualized to you.
In order to provide the highest quality patient-centered care I do not work directly with insurance. I am considered an out-of-network provider which means I can provide you a superbill to submit for reimbursement.
Great question I go over this in Practice Vision.
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