Daniel Newman

Your care is not confined to session time. I carefully plan your treatment between appointments and adjust the path to your wellness as we progress towards accomplishing your goals. My approach to mental health care begins with thorough diagnostic assessment. Before recommending any medication, I take time to understand the full clinical picture, including symptom patterns, medical history, prior treatment responses, and the cognitive and developmental processes through which symptoms or troubling behavior emerged. This allows me to match interventions to the underlying condition rather than the presenting complaint alone.

I prescribe conservatively and monitor with precision. I favor starting low, titrating based on response, and avoiding unnecessary polypharmacy. When psychotherapy is clinically indicated, I draw on extensive experience with psychodynamic, humanistic, and cognitive-behavioral approaches to offer integrated treatment rather than fragmented services.

The initial session provides 80 minutes reserved for a comprehensive, face-to-face psychiatric evaluation. During this assessment, we will explore your current symptoms and concerns, medical and psychiatric history, prior medication and therapy responses, family psychiatric history, and psychosocial and developmental context.

This level of detail is essential for arriving at an accurate diagnosis and developing a treatment plan that addresses root causes beyond surface-level symptom reduction. By the end of the first session, you will have a clear diagnostic impression and an initial treatment recommendation. If medication is appropriate, I will explain my reasoning, review potential benefits and risks, and answer your questions before prescribing. If psychotherapy, lifestyle modification, or further evaluation represents a better starting point, I will communicate this directly.