About Dr. Watts
In service of the whole person.
Dr. Emily Watts brings warmth, discretion, and a physician's rigor to every person and organization she cares for — meeting people thoughtfully, wherever they find themselves in life.
About Dr. Watts
Dr. Emily Watts brings warmth, discretion, and a physician's rigor to every person and organization she cares for — meeting people thoughtfully, wherever they find themselves in life.
Her Practice
At its heart, Dr. Watts' practice is general adult psychiatry — caring for adults across the full range of concerns, from depression, anxiety, and ADHD to grief, relationships, and the questions of identity and role that come with a changing life. Her approach is warm, rigorous, and deeply individualized, holding the physical, mental, and social together.
A neuroscientist by training, she graduated Summa Cum Laude in Neuroscience & Behavioral Biology from Emory and has been immersed in research ever since — studying the neurodevelopmental mechanisms of mood, anxiety, and stress from her undergraduate years through medical school and a dedicated research year at Stanford during residency, with peer-reviewed work in journals including Nature Neuroscience.
She earned her MD at Emory and completed her general adult psychiatry residency at NYU and Bellevue Hospital — among the oldest, most renowned, and most rigorous clinical trainings in the country — followed by subspecialty fellowships in reproductive psychiatry and public psychiatry. That uncommon depth, including a public-psychiatry grounding in how complex systems are led, shapes how she cares for an individual, reads a family, and understands an organization as a system.
Care & Teaching
That grounding in rigorous general adult psychiatry means Dr. Watts is comfortable caring for a broad range of people and concerns. She can help with most of what she sees; and in the rare instance a need falls outside her scope, she is well-connected and glad to guide someone toward the right care. Above all, she is devoted to compassionate, individualized care for every person she works with.
Today she teaches at New York University School of Medicine as faculty in the Department of Psychiatry, where she instructs and mentors residents and fellows.
Advocacy
Dr. Watts' commitment to UNICEF has spanned many years. A founding member of UNICEF Next Generation's Global Principals, she has also served on the Programs & Advocacy Committee of the UNICEF USA National Board and on the International Council of UNICEF — quiet, sustained work on behalf of children and families worldwide. She also served for years on the advisory committee of the Stanford Center on Longevity.
It reflects how she works day to day — looking beyond the individual to the family, workplace, and community around them, and to health that holds up over time.
In Forbes: UNICEF Next Generation & the Power of Collective Action
Scholarship & Affiliations
Peer-reviewed research on the neurobiology of stress, mood, resilience, and development.
Dr. Watts is an active member of the professional communities advancing women's and perinatal mental health:
She is faculty in the Department of Psychiatry at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, where she teaches and mentors residents and fellows.
Dr. Watts is currently accepting new clients for virtual and in-person care.