Northern Virginia Psychiatrist/Mental Health Psychiatry Services
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
—Soren Kierkegaard, philosopher
Fairfax Mental Health is a group of well-trained, experienced individual private practitioners who provide a full range of mental health services. These services include initial patient evaluations, psychotherapy, and medication management for a diverse population – children 8 years of age and older, adolescents, college students and other adults. Dr. Roy Michael Stefanik, a psychiatrist certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, founded the center in 2008, originally under the name of University Counseling.
Today, the Center offers a variety of specialty services, including grief counseling, substance abuse treatment, anxiety, depression, parenting/family issues, relationship and marital conflict, divorce, remarriage and blending of families, trauma, dealing with medical illness, social difficulties, and ADHD. We are a diverse group of experienced psychiatrists. As clinicians, we welcome the opportunity to share our expertise and learn from each other.
Fairfax Mental Health offers psychiatric and mental health services in the Northern Virginia region. We are located in Centreville, Virginia, in the western part of Fairfax County, and we can use a range of in-office and technology-enabled distance therapies as needed.
Beverly A. Reader, MD, PLLC
Dr. Reader is a board certified psychiatrist with The American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. She completed her psychiatry residency training at Georgetown University Hospital after a transitional internship at Wilford Hall Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas. She received her Doctorate of Medicine from The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Medical School in Bethesda, Maryland and graduated with distinction with a B.A. in Biology from San Diego State University in San Diego, California.
Dr. Reader is an assistant clinical professor in the Departments of Psychiatry at both George Washington University and Georgetown University, participating in medical student and resident education. She previously worked as a psychiatrist at the Student Health Services at George Washington University, and enjoys working with the young adult and college student population, working with teenagers and young adults ages 15 and older.
In addition, she completed training in reproductive psychiatry and women’s mental health issues including mental health treatment considerations prior to conception, medications during pregnancy and while breastfeeding, postpartum depression, mood disorders related to infertility, as well as pre-menstrual dysphoric disorder. This area of psychiatry is of great interest to her, and she continues to stay up to date on the most recent research literature, resources within the community, and current recommendations for treatment of perinatal mood disorders.
Dr. Reader has extensive experience as a community psychiatrist working with the chronically mentally ill and underserved, and currently also provides psychiatric services for adolescents in the foster care system with the Adolescent and Family Growth Center in Springfield, VA.
Dr. Reader’s practice philosophy incorporates a comprehensive style. This includes medication management to alleviate symptoms, psychotherapy, or coordinated care with patient’s psychotherapists, reproductive consultations for general psychiatrists, obstetricians, primary care doctors, psychological testing if indicated, and knowledge of a wide variety of related supportive psychological resources.
More information can be found on her website, www.drbeverlyreader.com.
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Craig C. Krause, M.D.
Dr. Krause has been in practice since 1991. He received his M.D. degree and residency training at The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and is board-certified in general psychiatry and forensic psychiatry (legal psychiatry). His areas of expertise include major depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Dr. Krause has served in leadership and executive roles as Medical Staff President, Medical Director and faculty at a number of prominent hospitals and academic institutions, including Saint Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C., the Inova Health System, Fairfax – Falls Church and Prince William County Community Services Boards (Mental Health). He has given expert testimony in local, state and federal courts. He is currently in private practice in Northern Virginia. While not a board certified child psychiatrist, Dr. Krause has extensive experience treating adolescents for a variety of conditions including ADHD, depression, anxiety, OCD, bipolar disorder, Asperger’s syndrome and schizophrenia. He works with a number of child and adolescent specialists including neuropsychologists for testing, school psychologists and therapists both in his offices and the Northern Virginia communities. He has weekend (Saturday), after school and evening appointments available.
In addition, Dr. Krause also has a practice in Prince William County. The address for his Prince William office is 7544 Gardner Park Drive, Gainesville, VA 20155 (directions).
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Please note that Fairfax Mental Health is not a partnership. Each professional in this office is an independent provider and shares no responsibility or liability for the advice given to the undersigned unless requested to render a service.
Roy Michael Stefanik, DO
Before attending medical school, Dr. Stefanik received his bachelor’s degree in pharmacy from Rutgers University in 1982 and worked as a registered pharmacist. Upon completing his Doctor of Osteopathy degree from Des Moines University in 1988, he did his internship at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, VA and his residency in psychiatry at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC. Afterwards he served as Medical Director of the University of Virginia psychiatric inpatient unit at the Culpeper, VA facility before going to work at George Mason University. From January 2001 until August 2009, Dr. Stefanik worked part-time with George Mason University Counseling and Psychological Services providing psychiatric evaluation and treatment of students.
In addition to his private practice in Centreville VA, Dr. Stefanik is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Georgetown University School of Medicine. He is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in adult psychiatry and continues to maintain hospital privileges at Inova Fairfax Hospital.
Dr. Stefanik is also on the clinical faculty at George Washington University and has a particular interest in the treatment of college students.
Dr. Stefanik is the founder and medical director of Fairfax Mental Health, originally started in 2008, under the name of University Counseling.
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