Gallatin Mental Health Center employs only highly skilled psychiatrists who are able to handle the full range of mental health conditions!
Our psychiatrists
Marian Spratt, MD, Psychiatrist
Marian graduated from the Rockefeller University. From 2001 to 2011, she worked as a senior lecturer at the Psychological Rehabilitation Department of the Psychological and Pedagogical University in New York. From 2007 to 2013, she was a psychiatrist at the American College of Psychiatrists.
She studied the program under the leadership of Bassel Van der Kolk “New approaches to trauma therapy” by the Justice Resource Institute in Boston. Postgraduate specialization in psycho-oncology was completed by Dr. Stewart at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
Membership in professional medical organizations
Member of the educational committee of the International Society for Psychosocial Oncology.
Interests
Treatment of post-stress disorders and crisis conditions, psychosocial therapy and rehabilitation of patients with mental disorders, accompaniment of patients with severe, including life-threatening, somatic diseases.
Mary Best, MD, Psychiatrist
Mary graduated from the Medical University of South Carolina, the Department of Psychiatry, Addiction and Psychotherapy. She completed a two-year program for systemic family psychotherapy. She graduated from a lengthy cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy program: “Cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy for depressive and anxiety disorders”, “Cognitive Psychotherapy of Emotional and Personal Disorders”, St. George’s University.
Experience
She worked as a psychotherapist in private medical centers. Mary owns methods of cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy, schema-therapy, systemic family therapy, emotionally-focused conjugal therapy, Ericksonian hypnosis. She specializes in the treatment of patients with anxiety disorders (panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, etc.) and affective (depressive disorders) spectra.
Scientific publications and works
Has 23 scientific publications.
Membership in professional medical organizations
A member of the Society of Cognitive Therapists and Consultants, a member of the International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy.
Interests
Anxiety and affective disorders psychotherapy.
Mildred Barger, MD, Psychiatrist
Mildred graduated from the University of Nottingham Medical School. She completed a specialization in psychiatry at the Scientific Center for Mental Health of the US Academy of Medical Sciences (department for the study of borderline mental pathology and psychosomatic disorders). She completed professional retraining in psychotherapy at the University of Edinburgh Medical School. Additionally, she studied cognitive-behavioral therapy (CPT) and schema-therapy at Cognitive Behavior Therapy training (Beck Institute).
Experience
Mildred worked at the Mental Health Scientific Center of Medical Sciences, Psychiatric Clinical Hospital No. 12, Central Research Institute for Organization and Informatization of Health Care, private medical institutions since 2008.
Scientific publications and works
“Mixed states in the clinic of bipolar affective disorder.”
Interests
Pharmaco- and psychotherapy of anxiety and affective disorders, age-related crises, reactions to psycho-emotional stress; disorders of adaptive reactions; psychotherapeutic support of families of patients with psycho-emotional disorders; cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy.
Carmen Clukey, Psychiatrist
Carmen accepts patients aged 50 years and older.
Interests
Diagnosis and treatment of dementia of later age, including Alzheimer’s disease, including rare forms; the study of the clinical features, dynamics and prognosis of borderline forms of mental pathology of late age; organization of care for patients with dementia and their families; primary psychotic episode at a later age. The doctor specializes in pharmacotherapy and rehabilitation of patients with mental disorders at a later age.
Melvin Jenkins, MD, Psychiatrist
Melvin graduated from the University of Glasgow School of Medicine. He passed certification on narcology and psychotherapy, studied modern psychoanalysis from 2013 to 2018 in the Center for the Study of Groups (New York) and the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (New York).
Melvin owns techniques of group and individual psychotherapy in combination with the technique of modern psychoanalysis.
Membership in professional medical organizations
A member of the Psychoanalytic Association of Psychologists, Coaches and Organization Consultants.
Interests
Modern psychoanalysis in psychiatry.
Ruth Roland, Psychiatrist
Ruth graduated from the New York University School of Medicine, passed a clinical internship in Psychiatry. The doctor provides the necessary planned and emergency psychiatric care.
Experience
Since 2010, Ruth is a psychiatrist at the Gallatin Mental Health Center.
Interests
Diagnostics and drug therapy of endogenous diseases, affective bipolar disorders, depressions of various origins, anxiety disorders, mental disorders of late age, comorbid disorders in somatic practice.
Clarice Carter, Psychologist, Dexologist. MA, PW Dipl.
In 2013, Clarice graduated from the University of Minnesota Medical School. In 2017, she received a master’s degree and diploma from the Process Work Institute (PWI), Portland. Clarice completed a three-year internship at the PWI clinic, where she defended her thesis on process-oriented work with sexuality, intimacy and early childhood trauma.
Dr. Carter specializes in topics related to intimacy and sex issues, including: co-dependent relationships and destructive patterns in the relationship of the couple (adultery, control problems, jealousy); emotional reactions to stress and loss at the end of a relationship and loss of a partner; loss or lack of intimacy and intimacy in a relationship; problems of sexual identity, including on the background of age crises and changes in the “body image”; sexual addiction; decreased libido, anorgasmia, psychogenic disorders of erectile function, problems of sexual and intimate relationships in a couple.
Experience
From 2014 to 2017, Dr. Carter worked at the Process Work Institute, Portland. She is currently a teacher at the Hope Medical Institute.
Membership in professional medical organizations
Member of the International Association of Process Oriented Psychology (IAPOP).