Clinical Practice
Comprehensive psychiatric care for adults navigating change — from everyday concerns to the many transitions of a life — with a subspecialty in women's mental health and reproductive psychiatry. Board-certified in psychiatry and on faculty at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.
Areas of Care
Dr. Watts' background and training mean she is comfortable with most of what she sees. In the rare instance a need falls outside the scope of her practice, she is well-connected and glad to guide someone toward the right care.
Dr. Watts practices general adult psychiatry, open to all adults — thorough diagnosis, psychotherapy, and medication management for depression, anxiety, ADHD and executive functioning, grief, substance use, and relationship issues, along with the transitions and stressors of adult life — starting school, a career, or a family, the strain that can surface when any of them is tested, and the shifts in role and identity that follow. Throughout, she cares for each person within the relationships and family systems that shape a life.
Within that general practice, she holds a distinct subspecialty in women's mental health and reproductive psychiatry — a small, specialized field spanning the mental health of women through the hormonal transitions of life, from the menstrual cycle and the perinatal period to perimenopause and menopause. She also offers consultations and second opinions on medication during pregnancy, breastfeeding, and fertility treatment.
Across all of this, she brings comprehensive medical care and precision medicine — evidence-based, root-cause care that protects brain and body over time — informed by her scientific and medical training and her longstanding interest in longevity science.
General Adult Psychiatry
Evidence-based treatment for the core conditions of adult life, from a first episode to long-standing patterns.
Assessment and treatment for adults navigating focus, organization, and follow-through.
Support for substance use and the habits that quietly get in the way of a full life.
Supportive, dynamic, and interpersonal psychotherapies grounded in trust and continuity.
Consultations and ongoing medication management, personalized to your needs.
Exercise, light therapy, yoga, mindfulness, massage, and nutrition as foundations of mental wellness.
Professional and leadership coaching for individuals from a variety of backgrounds.
Support through loss, difficult transitions, and the weight of ongoing stress.
Precision & Optimization
A careful review of labs and history to identify and address underlying medical contributors — thyroid, nutrient levels, hormones, sleep — behind mental-health symptoms.
Tailored nutrition and guidance on eating well as a foundation of lasting health, with attention to metabolic markers and blood-sugar stability as levers for mood, energy, and focus.
Evidence-based strategies to lower chronic inflammation and build the sleep, movement, and nutrition habits that protect brain and body over time.
When helpful, genetic testing to guide medication selection and dosing — reducing trial and error by tailoring treatment to your biology.
Women's Mental Health
Mood, sleep, and anxiety during and after pregnancy; grief after loss; and birth trauma.
Second opinions on medication, sleep, and lifestyle while pregnant, breastfeeding, trying to conceive, or undergoing fertility treatment.
Hormone-sensitive mood, sleep, and anxiety changes across the reproductive life cycle.
Preparing for childbirth and breastfeeding, and setting up a nursery and home for a newborn's safety and development.
Restoring healthy sleep — for new parents and their babies, and for adults and women whose rest has been unsettled by a biological, psychological, or emotional transition. A careful, evidence-based approach to one of the body's most essential rhythms.
Care through infertility, pregnancy loss, and the grief that so often goes unspoken.
Experience with sexual health and chronic pelvic pain, addressed with candor and care.
The psychological side of a changing body — through pregnancy, postpartum, and midlife.
Media & Speaking
7 Postpartum Mental Health Myths to Stop Believing — featured in the Happiest Baby blog by Dr. Harvey Karp, inventor of the SNOO smart crib — and Mental Health in Conception & Pregnancy on RMA of New York's Fertility Forward podcast. Beyond published features, Dr. Watts lectures and speaks regularly — to clinical audiences and the public — on women's mental health, reproductive psychiatry, and mental wellbeing.
Perhaps You Know the Feeling
Maybe you're just starting out — a new city, a first job or graduate school, a social world that feels harder than it should, or a habit you're quietly worried about. Maybe the baby finally sleeps and you're still awake at 3 a.m., or you're another month into fertility treatment, carrying a grief that has no name. Maybe you're the one everyone leans on — a founder, a partner, a parent — and you haven't truly exhaled in longer than you can remember. Maybe your mind has always moved a little too fast, and you're only now wondering whether there's a name for it. Maybe a marriage is quietly ending, a parent is slipping, or midlife has rearranged your body and moods in ways no one warned you about. Or maybe nothing is wrong, exactly — you're steady and high-functioning, and simply want to feel sharper and at your best.
Whatever brought you here, you don't have to arrive with it neatly explained. Dr. Watts helps you put words to it — together.
Availability
Virtual visits year-round, with limited in-person availability, by inquiry. Dr. Watts sees patients based in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Washington, DC, Maryland, Virginia, California, Idaho, and Georgia.