Psychiatric Care
Dr. Marcus offers psychiatric care for adults, adolescents, and children. He treats patients with psychotherapy, medications, or both depending on the needs of each individual patient.
Medication can be an important part of treatment. Dr. Marcus works with his patients to find a medication or medications that help while always trying to minimize side effects.
There are many different types of therapy that can be helpful depending on a patient’s need. This can also evolve throughout the course of treatment. Dr. Marcus uses dynamic therapy foundations as a guide to help understand a patient’s psychological landscape. Dynamic therapy can also be used as a primary modality for therapy. Dr. Marcus also uses CBT, DBT, and Mindfulness practices. For children, play therapy is primarily used with CBT when appropriate.
Dr. Marcus sees patients with many different challenges and diagnoses. Because of his training in pediatrics, he has particular interest in psychiatric care for children and adolescents with chronic medical conditions. He enjoys working with pediatricians and care teams to maximize psychiatric and medical care.
Dr. Marcus believes that trying to figure out a specific diagnosis is important. But diagnoses in psychiatry are broad and a list of symptoms can never fully describe what a person is experiencing. Fundamentally, psychiatric care is about building trust between a patient/family and physician in order to allow a story to emerge. The goal of the psychiatrist is to help organize that story into a narrative that will help explain what the patient is struggling with and why. This process is a foundation of treatment.