Beverly A. Reader, M.D.

• Conduct comprehensive psychiatric evaluations and weekly treatment for adolescents with trauma exposure, emotional dysregulation, and emerging co-occurring substance abuse disorders.
• Provide trauma-informed medication management and crisis stabilization.
• Lead interdisciplinary treatment planning and support collaborative clinical communication.
• Offer trauma-sensitive family guidance and psychoeducation.
• Ensure CLIA compliance and incorporate lab findings into individualized treatment plans.

• Lead clinical programming, assessment, and psychiatric treatment for adults with complex PTSD, dissociation, and co-occurring disorders.
• Provide IFS Level 1–based psychotherapy with somatic and relational emphasis.
• Apply psychedelic-assisted therapy science (MDMA, psilocybin, ketamine) for trauma insight and integration, excluding use within addiction settings.
• Conduct comprehensive psychiatric evaluations, diagnostic formulation, and weekly ongoing sessions.
• Recognized for warm attunement, clear communication, and depth in trauma-focused care.
• Provide detox services to Friendly House, a sub-acute residential rehabilitation program for women in Los Angeles.

Worked in Faculty Practice Group of UCLA's Behavioral Health Associates. Practiced as psychiatrist consult and urgently need to be seen patients within the UCLA system in primary care office setting.

Collaboration with primary care doctors, and clinical meetings and supervision w/ Dr. Gitlin monthly.

Residential and PHP treatment for mental health patients, high acuity, high volume, with 5 different residential houses 8 patients each. Worked in conjunction w/ nurse practitioner to manage care of patients for psychopharmacology as well as education and direction for support staff.

Provided detox's for inpatient residential care for 8 bed house as well as aftercare for pts continuing on to PHP.

• Directed psychiatric services across residential, PHP/IOP, and outpatient programs.
• Stabilized complex dual-diagnosis cases involving trauma and addiction.
• Director of TMS assessment and management of treatment protocols.
• Led multidisciplinary teams with an emphasis on clinical clarity and relational steadiness.
• Enhanced documentation quality, communication pathways, and treatment coherence.
• Implemented Ketamine IV infusion services and launched a Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) program.

• Conducted diagnostic assessments and psychiatric treatment for teens and adults in substance abuse recovery programs.
• Supervised clinical teams and ensured safety, stabilization, and evidence-based treatment planning.
• Guided medication management, crisis assessment, and multi-disciplinary collaboration.

• Provided comprehensive psychopharmacology management services.
• Oversaw TMS treatment management and individualized protocol adaptation.
• Provided referrals for Ketamine IV infusion services and coordinated continuity of care.

private practice, consultant and referral psychiatrist w/ GWU, Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, and William and Mary Colleges.

reproductive psychiatry.

• Multiple Agencies including foster care, medicare/medicaid treatment centers, HIV clinics, ACT psychiatrist, DC jail.
• Implementation of outpatient, use at home Suboxone program in community center, expanding access to care.
• Collaboration w/ case managers and social workers unique to each patient's needs.