Highline Psychiatry was created to provide a different kind of psychiatric practice—one centered on time, clinical judgment, and meaningful physician-patient relationships. Our goal is to deliver thoughtful, individualized psychiatric care in an environment where patients feel heard, understood, and supported throughout their treatment journey.
Highline Psychiatry was created to provide a different kind of psychiatric practice—one centered on time, clinical judgment, and meaningful physician-patient relationships. Our goal is to deliver thoughtful, individualized psychiatric care in an environment where patients feel heard, understood, and supported throughout their treatment journey.
Before founding Highline Psychiatry, I worked across many parts of the mental health system, including academic medical centers, psychiatric emergency rooms, inpatient units, community clinics, teaching programs, and outpatient practices.
These experiences provided broad clinical training while also revealing a recurring challenge. Although exceptional psychiatric knowledge exists throughout New York, patients and families often struggle to find thoughtful, continuous outpatient psychiatric care.
The problem is rarely a lack of talented clinicians. More often, it is the structure in which they are expected to practice. Brief appointments, overwhelming caseloads, and fragmented care can make patients feel like a diagnosis or medication list rather than individuals whose circumstances deserve careful consideration.
That realization inspired me to create Highline Psychiatry—a physician-led practice built around thoughtful care, meaningful relationships, and clinical excellence.
Highline is built around the belief that psychiatry should be practiced by physicians who have enough time to evaluate patients carefully, explain their thinking, and remain meaningfully involved in treatment.
Initial evaluations are intentionally comprehensive. Follow-up appointments are designed to be substantive clinical visits rather than rushed medication checks. In-person care is prioritized when practical, because there are aspects of communication, observation, and therapeutic connection that are often easier to appreciate when physician and patient are in the same room.
Treatment is individualized rather than organized around a single philosophy. Some patients benefit primarily from medication. Others need psychotherapy, family involvement, collaboration with another clinician, changes in their environment, or simply greater diagnostic clarity before treatment begins. Frequently, the right approach involves several of these elements together.
My work has included private outpatient practice, psychiatric emergency care, community mental health, medical leadership, teaching, and research. I have treated patients in academic hospitals, community clinics, emergency departments, inpatient units, and private-practice settings.
Working across these environments has shaped how I practice. Emergency psychiatry taught me how to remain calm and make careful decisions when the stakes are high. Long-term outpatient work taught me the importance of continuity, trust, and understanding how symptoms evolve over time. My psychotherapy training reinforced the value of listening closely and looking beyond the most immediate complaint.
Today, my clinical work is centered at Highline Psychiatry, the practice I founded to provide thoughtful, physician-led psychiatric care in a setting designed around the needs of patients rather than the limitations of a large institution.
I envision Highline developing into a selective group of outstanding psychiatrists who provide care across the lifespan and across a range of psychiatric specialties.
Growth should never come at the expense of appointment quality, accessibility, professional judgment, or the relationship between physician and patient. Each new psychiatrist should strengthen the practice while preserving the standards on which it was founded.
Highline Psychiatry exists to show that outpatient psychiatric care can be rigorous without being impersonal, sophisticated without being inaccessible, and efficient without becoming rushed.
Learn more about the practice at HighlinePsych.com.
