Services & Approach | Mariposa Psychiatry

Services

Each path begins with a comprehensive consultation to determine the right fit and plan.

Comprehensive Consultation

$450 · 75–90 minutes

Your initial visit completes a comprehensive diagnostic assessment of your mental health and educates you about your options going forward. We also determine together whether the practice is a good fit for your needs.

Medication Management

$225 · 25 minutes

Shorter visits for patients primarily seeing me to manage their psychiatric medications. Each session includes brief supportive therapy and education, with medication approached deliberately and conservatively.

Psychotherapy

$300 · 50 minutes

Weekly or twice-weekly psychodynamic psychotherapy focused on the deeper patterns shaping your thoughts, emotions, and relationships. Together we explore underlying themes to create lasting change, not just symptom relief.

Out of network with all insurance · Private pay only · Extended follow-up or family visit $450 / 55 to 60 min

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Practice Focus

An integrated approach refined over years of experience in academic psychiatry, depth and spiritual psychology, and embedded medical settings.

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

A reflective, insight-oriented approach that explores how early experience, relational patterns, and unconscious processes shape current emotional life. Particularly helpful when symptoms are embedded in longstanding patterns of relating, identity development, internal conflict, or unresolved grief and loss.

The focus is not only symptom reduction or labels, but increased self-understanding, emotional integration, and psychological flexibility over time. This work often suits people who have tried other modalities and feel a nagging sense of being stuck.

I hold certification in Transference Focused Psychotherapy (TFP), a structured, evidence-based psychodynamic therapy for personality-related difficulties, including borderline and narcissistic personality disorders. I also offer Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), a 12 to 18 session evidence-based protocol for PTSD.

Mood Disorders

I have a particular interest in major depressive disorder and bipolar spectrum conditions, with an emphasis on careful diagnostic clarification and individualized treatment planning.

Comprehensive evaluation of the overall psychiatric diagnosis
Assessment of medical, neurological, and medication-related contributors
Assessment of trauma, grief, loss, and personality style
Advanced psychopharmacologic strategies tailored to treatment response
ECT consultation via Austin's local service when appropriate
Longitudinal care focused on stability and relapse prevention

Consultation-Liaison / Psychosomatic Psychiatry

As a fellowship-trained psychosomatic psychiatrist, I specialize in the intersection of medicine and mental health, and how medical illness, lived experience, and psychosocial stressors shape emotional life. My training spans hospital and outpatient medical settings in collaboration with physicians across every specialty. In outpatient practice this can include attention to how cardiovascular, endocrine, liver and kidney, inflammatory, and neurological conditions influence emotional functioning, alongside the careful use of psychiatric medication in this context.

Cardiac psychiatry, mood and anxiety in cardiovascular disease
Psycho-oncology, psychiatric care during cancer treatment and survivorship
Transplant psychiatry, pre- and post-transplant psychiatric support
Neuropsychiatry, epilepsy, Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis
Complex medication interactions, psychiatric effects of medical treatments
Identity disruption, self-esteem changes through or after illness
Medical self-hypnosis

My approach to care

At Mariposa Psychiatry, healing happens when medical precision meets thoughtful psychological reflection. My approach is rooted in the belief that every person possesses an innate capacity for growth and healing.

I integrate evidence-based psychiatric treatment with a deeply humanistic philosophy. This means combining the latest in psychopharmacology and clinical research with genuine presence, active listening, and collaborative partnership.

Medication management, if required, is integrated into a comprehensive treatment plan that prioritizes clarity, function, and overall well-being, not just symptom reduction. Patients will find that my practice values precision, depth, and discernment, where treatment is individualized and both the science and the meaning of your experience are taken seriously.

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