Dr Deborah Lipschitz MD
Medical Director, ADULT PHP
Dr Lipshitz is a South African trained doctor and an American trained board certified psychiatrist. She has practiced child, adolescent and adult psychiatry in the town of Fairfield, CT for over 28 years, and has served on the faculty at Yale University for 10 years where she from an academic/research model of psychiatry. Her diverse personal and professional background allow her to practice evidence based psychopharmacological care, but she rarely only prescribes medications as most patients see her for psychotherapy as well as medication management.
Dr Lipshitz’s expertise is in Mood and Anxiety Disorders across the life span. Her research interests are in trauma and PTSD. All of Dr Lipshitz’s work is collborative - with the patient, their families, and with other members of their treatment team. As a child psychiatrst, she sees many issues through a developmental and family based lens.
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