Metabolic Psychiatry

Psychiatric care that accounts for your whole metabolic picture.

Psychiatric medications can meaningfully affect weight, blood sugar, and metabolic health — and metabolic health, in turn, can affect mood, energy, and psychiatric symptoms. This consultation looks at both sides of that relationship, rather than treating them as separate concerns.

Areas of Focus

  • Medication selection with metabolic side effects in mind

  • Managing weight changes related to current psychiatric medications

  • Psychiatric evaluation for patients with existing metabolic conditions (e.g., diabetes, PCOS/PMOS, obesity)

  • Coordination with GLP-1 medication use and its psychiatric considerations

  • General psychiatric consultation for patients who want a metabolically-informed approach to care

Training in Obesity Medicine

Dr. Frazier completed the Harvard Medical School Blackburn Course in Obesity Medicine, bringing a metabolic lens to psychiatric evaluation and treatment planning.

What’s Included

Metabolic Psychiatric Consultation

A 60–90 minute, in-depth psychiatric consultation informed by training through the Harvard Medical School Blackburn Course in Obesity Medicine — addressing the intersection of mental health, psychiatric medications, and metabolic risk.

  • Review of current medications and metabolic risk factors, including medication-related effects on weight, glucose, and lipid metabolism

  • Assessment of relevant metabolic health markers (e.g., weight/BMI trends, available labs such as A1c, fasting glucose, or lipid panel, and family history of diabetes or cardiovascular disease)

  • Personalized treatment recommendations, balancing psychiatric symptom management with metabolic risk reduction

  • Coordination considerations with your primary care provider or endocrinologist, so your care team stays aligned

  • Written summary and recommendations you can share with your providers or reference on your own

Who This is For

  • Patients concerned about weight changes on their current psychiatric medication

  • Patients with diabetes, PMOS (formerly PCOS), or other metabolic conditions seeking psychiatric care that takes this into account

  • Patients on GLP-1 medications with questions about mood or psychiatric medication interactions

  • Anyone seeking general psychiatric care from a physician with specific training in the metabolic side of mental health

A Private, Unhurried Approach

This practice operates on a private-pay basis, allowing for longer appointments and treatment decisions made between you and your physician, without insurance-driven limits on session length or frequency. Learn more about why this practice is private-pay →