About Fairfax Mental Health

Our Vision & Mission

Fairfax Mental Health’s mission is to provide high-quality mental health treatment to each patient, identifying effective coping skills as well as providing tools and resources to meet their challenges. Each patient is treated with the individual attention, dignity and respect they deserve. It is done with the patient’s privacy and personal goals in mind. In doing this, we achieve our vision: to help people learn to make the critical initial positive changes in their lives to help them towards personal growth and healing.

Our Physicians

Beverly A. Reader, MD, PLLC

Dr. Reader has 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.

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Christine A. Birchansky, MD

Dr. Birchansky’s special interests include cognitive behavioral therapy, mind body medicine, anxiety disorders including obsessive-compulsive disorder, and depression associated with severe medical illnesses.

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Craig C. Krause, MD

Dr. Krause has extensive experience treating adolescents for a variety of conditions including ADHD, depression, anxiety, OCD, bipolar disorder, Asperger’s syndrome and schizophrenia.

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Roy Michael Stefanik, DO

Dr. Stefanik has a particular interest in the treatment of college students. He is the founder and medical director of Fairfax Mental Health, originally started in 2008, under the name of University Counseling.

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Our Administrative Team

Vickie Johnson

Vickie is our Practice Administrator. She has been with Fairfax Mental Health for three years.