I didn’t grow up thinking I’d be a doctor—well, not a medical one, at least. I always knew I loved science, but also…philosophy. And art. And spirituality. Turns out, psychiatry is a fantastic field if you just love understanding and living life, because the nature of what it means to be alive and human is the undercurrent of everything we do.

I took a bit of a circuitous path to medicine, first by going to West Point, then by choosing to study French and Human Geography. After graduating, I flew helicopters for the Army and deployed overseas twice, and while I was home I finished premed classes at Kansas State University, near where I was stationed with the Army. I went to Harvard for medical school, and got to do research in Ghana, climb Mount Kilimanjaro and, by good fortune, do a psychiatry rotation at one of the best psychiatric hospitals in the world—I was sold.

I started my own learning about integrative medicine in medical school, when I began to see gaps in the care patients received and to look for ways to deal with my own physical and mental burnout. During residency at Walter Reed, I was introduced to functional medicine, and I finally had a name and a toolbox for what I wanted to do.

Credentials:

• United States Military Academy at West Point, Bachelor’s of Science

• Harvard Medical School, Doctor of Medicine

• Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Residency Training in Psychiatry

• American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology, Certification

• Institute for Functional Medicine, Certification

• Psychiatry Redefined Fellowship, Certification

• Training in various psychotherapy modalities:

  • Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART)

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I)

  • Prolonged Exposure Therapy (PE)

  • Interpersonal and Social Rhythm Therapy (IPSRT)

  • Center for Mind-Body Medicine (CMBM)

  • Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)

  • HeartMath Interventions

  • RightSleep

• Special Interests:

  • Mood disorders (depression, bipolar)

  • Burnout and chronic stress

  • Lifestyle medicine and change

  • Sleep & dreams

  • Trauma

  • Depth psychology, intuition & spirituality

  • Mindfulness, meditation & Buddhist psychology