About General Adult Psychiatry
At Dayton Behavioral Care, our General Adult Psychiatry services are built on a psychiatrist-led, team-based model designed to treat the full spectrum of adult mental health conditions — from common conditions such as depression and anxiety to more complex and treatment-resistant illnesses. With over 30 years of psychiatric experience in the Dayton community, our psychiatrist remains actively involved in patient care, evaluations, treatment planning, and oversight of all clinical services.
We believe psychiatric care works best when it is comprehensive, consistent, and collaborative. Our team of psychiatric providers works closely together to ensure patients receive the appropriate level of care as their needs change over time. For some patients, this may mean medication management and therapy coordination. For others, this may include advanced interventional treatments such as TMS or Spravato. By offering multiple levels of care under one roof, we are able to help patients stabilize, improve, and often avoid hospitalization through proactive, coordinated treatment.
Our practice also incorporates a holistic and natural approach to mental health when appropriate, including lifestyle, behavioral, and integrative strategies, allowing us to treat the whole person — not just the diagnosis.
Why Choose Our Practice
Choosing a psychiatric provider is an important decision, and not all psychiatric practices are structured the same.
Dayton Behavioral Care is a psychiatrist-led practice, meaning a psychiatrist is actively involved in patient care, complex case consultation, treatment planning, and interventional services. Many practices today operate under a model in which the collaborating physician is off-site and rarely involved in day-to-day patient care. Our model is different. We believe that complex psychiatric care benefits from direct psychiatric oversight, team collaboration, and the ability to adjust the level of care when needed.
Our practice provides:
- Psychiatrist-led care with active physician involvement
- A team-based approach with experienced psychiatric nurse practitioners
- Treatment for both routine and complex psychiatric conditions
- A holistic, patient-centered approach that includes natural and lifestyle-based interventions when appropriate
- Advanced interventional services (TMS and Spravato) for treatment-resistant depression
- Geriatric psychiatry for older adults with complex medical and psychiatric needs
- Coordination with therapists, primary care providers, and specialists
- A long-standing presence in the Dayton community with experience in outpatient, inpatient, and clinical research settings
Because we offer multiple levels of care within one practice, patients do not need to start over when their condition changes. Their care can evolve within the same team and the same practice, which provides stability, continuity, and better long-term outcomes.
Conditions Treated
We treat a wide range of adult psychiatric conditions, including:
Psychiatrist-Led, Team-Based Care
Our practice is structured around a psychiatrist-led, team-based model of care. This means a psychiatrist is actively involved in patient care, complex case consultation, treatment planning, and oversight of advanced treatments. Our psychiatric nurse practitioners provide ongoing follow-up care, medication management, and patient support, while working collaboratively with the psychiatrist and the rest of the clinical team.
This team-based structure allows us to provide consistent care, increase access to appointments, and ensure that complex cases are reviewed and managed collaboratively. As a patient’s needs change, their level of care can also change within the same practice — from routine outpatient care to more advanced treatment options if needed.
Hospitalization Prevention and Higher Level of Care
One of the primary goals of our practice is to stabilize patients and help them avoid hospitalization whenever possible. Through close follow-up, medication management, collaboration with therapists and families, and access to advanced interventional treatments when appropriate, we are often able to help patients through difficult periods while keeping them safe and supported in the outpatient setting.
Our team has extensive experience treating complex psychiatric conditions, including patients with severe depression, bipolar disorder, PTSD, and other serious mental health conditions. When a higher level of care is needed, we help coordinate that care and remain involved in the patient’s treatment to ensure continuity and stability when they return to the outpatient setting.
Geriatric Psychiatry
We also provide geriatric psychiatry services for older adults experiencing depression, anxiety, mood changes, or memory-related concerns. Older adults often have complex medical conditions and medication regimens that require careful psychiatric evaluation and management.
We work closely with primary care providers, neurologists, and families to ensure safe and appropriate treatment for older adults, while also supporting caregivers who are caring for aging family members with mental health or cognitive concerns.
Access to Interventional Psychiatry
For patients who do not respond to traditional medications and therapy, our practice offers advanced interventional psychiatry services, including Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) and Spravato (esketamine). Because these services are available within our practice, patients can transition to a higher level of care without having to leave their treatment team or start over at a new facility. This continuity of care is an important part of achieving better outcomes for patients with treatment-resistant depression.
Referring Clinicians
We value our relationships with referring clinicians and view psychiatric care as a collaborative process. Many of the patients we see are referred by primary care providers, therapists, and other specialists who trust us to evaluate, stabilize, and provide recommendations for ongoing care.
Our practice utilizes a biopsychosocial-spiritual model of care, a holistic, patient-centered framework that recognizes mental health is influenced by biological factors, psychological patterns, social environment, life experiences, and, for many individuals, spiritual or values-based beliefs. By addressing the whole person, we are able to develop more comprehensive and effective treatment plans, particularly for patients with complex or treatment-resistant conditions.
We regularly collaborate with referring providers by:
- Providing comprehensive psychiatric evaluations
- Offering medication management and stabilization
- Communicating treatment recommendations and progress
- Providing interventional services such as TMS and Spravato when indicated
- Returning patients to the referring provider once stable, when appropriate
- Remaining available for re-consultation if a patient’s condition changes
Our goal is not to replace the referring provider, but to serve as a specialty psychiatric resource and partner in patient care.
Contact Us
To schedule an appointment or to refer a patient, please contact our office. Our team is available to help determine the appropriate level of care and to answer any questions about our services.