How to Work With Me Clinically

On opening my own private practice for women's mental health & how I work

You all are probably TIRED of hearing me give caveats on how to take in what I write online. This is one of the few times I will be speaking exclusively as a psychiatrist!

While I am currently in child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship, I completed my adult psychiatry residency and licensing last year. I am learning so much about human development and care from working with kids, but I do miss seeing adult patients, especially the many women I worked with at transition points in life (into and out of college, career, relationships, and reproductive years). With this in mind, I’ve been working behind the scenes for the past few months on getting the pieces in place to open my own small, private practice for telehealth psychiatry for people who live in Massachusetts.

You can find more information on it at my clinical website, here.

I've spent the last 13 years of my life learning how to become a psychiatrist and psychotherapist that can help women slow down, thrive, and be supported. Combining specializations in reproductive psychiatry, chronic pain, and eating disorders, my background lets me offer you evidence-based care while being flexible enough to co-create your path.

Care is confusing for women, and my goal is to simplify it.

I believe mental health care is a journey we go on together, and much about the modern health system and world environment makes this path precarious. My job is to make sure you have all the tools you need, and to give guidance so you feel confident in your next steps. As a therapist, I have expertise and have been awarded based on my work and teaching modalities of therapy.

What A Private Practice Can Offer

For now, I will not be accepting insurance for a few reasons, but will be able to superbill for my patients to be able to submit to their insurance. This is a (even if temporary) decision I do not take lightly, and has been a part of my process of preparing for a private practice for the past year. Without the constraints of insurance, I can plan care for patients that has a level of creativity and consistency that insurance-based practice makes difficult. Additionally, this path allows me to practice what I find to be one of the most profound and holistic ways of mental health treatment: combined medication and psychotherapy treatment. Instead of seeing you only occasionally for medication in short, 20 minute visits, combined treatment helps me to understand what is happening in the broader expanse of your life and to respond with medication, lifestyle recommendations, or therapy approaches appropriately.

Thanks for considering, and I’ll see you soon in our next article on spring resets and saving out time, money, and attention!

Take care & take you time,

Margaret of Bad Art Every Day