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Providers

Welcome and thank you for taking the time to learn about my practice. My goal is to provide care that compliments and supplements the work of you and your patient. I support coordination of care by sending you updates in care following the first visit and at regular intervals, with patient permission.

Quick Facts

  • Depression impacts 10% of the population at some sometime during their lifetimes.
  • Depression is the 5th most common reason for a visit to a primary care provider.
  • Most people do not seek treatment due to stigma.
  • A high percentage of those treated do not receive appropriate treatment or continue treatment for an insufficient period of time.

Challenges for primary care providers

  • Lack of time. Diagnosing and monitoring patients with depression is time intensive.
  • Lack of evaluation tools. Patients often come in complaining of physical symptoms. Because the symptoms of depression can often mimic other illnesses, recognizing them may not be obvious to the patient and the primary care provider.
  • Specialty information/treatment can be difficult to deliver in a traditional primary care system.

Do you have a patient who wants to taper off a particular medication that you know can be difficult to stop and requires close monitoring?

Or is your patient taking an antidepressant, but still depressed?

Do you have a patient who has failed a few psychotropics and you’re feeling that it’s time to refer this aspect of management with possible therapy referral?

Or are you a therapist who has the challenge of working with a patient who is working hard in therapy, but is getting little result because the depression is too severe or has worsened, lessening the likelihood of success?

How to refer your patient

There are several ways to make a referral.

1. One, you can give the patient my phone number and have them leave a message for me. Or, you can leave me a detailed message whether you want my office to contact the patient to schedule.

2. Providers calling to quickly schedule a new patient can leave a voice mail message that includes your office fax number or email address so that I can send you a patient referral form that the patient or someone in your office can complete and fax to my office.

3. Or, you can download a patient referral form, have the patient or someone in your office complete it, and send it to me via fax. Our office will take care of any benefits, eligibility, and insurance authorization.


If you have an emergency or complex case and would like to brief me on the situation, please contact me by calling my office or email. The email link available on this website for professionals isn’t HIPPA compliant (only the patientally link for patients is HIPPA compliant).

For consults only on your patients who have treatment-resistant depression and decline a referral to psychiatric specialist, I am happy to discuss the case over the phone or in person over lunch.

Click Here to download the Patient Referral Form