About Dr. Ibeh
If you found this page, something has already started. Here is who I am, so the next decision is an easier one.
In her words
I like people. That is the plain truth under all of it. I became a psychiatrist because I wanted to sit with someone on the hardest week of their life and be useful, not just interested. 17 years in, the work still holds me. I get to watch people go back to their jobs, their families, their own minds, and stay there.
I do both halves of the care myself. Psychotherapy and medication, in the same appointment, with the same doctor. Most psychiatrists now write the prescription and send you elsewhere for the talking, and something real gets lost in the handoff. When one person is holding both, the medicine is adjusted by someone who heard how your week actually went. I believe that combination is what supports a rapid return of functioning, and I have seen little reason to change my mind about it.
A large part of my practice is reproductive psychiatry. That means the mental health of the years around pregnancy and around menopause. Trying to conceive. Pregnancy. The postpartum months. Perimenopause. These are stretches when hormones, sleep and identity all shift at once, and what follows gets waved off as normal for the stage of life. Some of it is not, and much of it is treatable. I know this territory, including what the current safety data says about medication during pregnancy and while nursing, and I will walk you through those trade-offs in plain language.
I practice evidence-based medicine. I read the psychiatric literature and I keep reading it, because what was standard ten years ago is not always what is right for you today. That also means I will tell you when the evidence is thin, when a medication is worth trying, and when it is not. You will always know my reasoning. Nothing about your treatment should be a mystery to the person receiving it.
As a person, I am warm and I am direct. I am curious about your life and honest with you about what I see. I will ask questions that go past the symptom list, and I will not rush you through the answer. You do not have to arrive organized or articulate. You only have to arrive.
Principles
Therapy and medication belong in the same room. When the person prescribing is also the person listening, the prescribing decisions are made by someone who heard the whole week, not a two-line summary. And you are not repeating your history to two people.
The aim is not a quieter chart. It is you back at work, back in your relationships, back to sleeping. We track progress by what your life looks like, not by how neatly you fit a diagnosis.
Psychiatry changes. I follow the current literature and apply it to your case specifically, not to a category you happen to fall into. If the evidence for something is weak, I will say so before I recommend it.
I will be candid with you, including when the answer is complicated or slower than either of us wants. Compassion without honesty wastes your time. You will always know what I think and why I think it.
Education and training
Every recommendation I make rests on this.
Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Where my interest in how people are shaped by what surrounds them began.
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Public health training. It is why I ask about your life and not only your symptoms.
Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
Medical school. The grounding for treating the body and the mind as one patient.
Northwell Health, Zucker Hillside Hospital, Glen Oaks, NY
Specialist training in adult psychiatry, from first episodes to the most acute presentations a hospital sees.
Credentials
From a colleague
Psychiatry is a small field. Reputation moves between clinicians long before it reaches a website.
Dr. Ibeh is an empathic, personable and clinically skilled psychiatrist who offers both quality evaluations and psychopharmacological care as well as psychotherapy. It will be a pleasure to work together in the years to come!
You do not have to know what is wrong before you call. Most people do not. Start with a free fifteen-minute phone call, tell me a little about what has been happening, and ask me whatever you need to ask. If I am the right doctor for you, we will book a first appointment. If I am not, I will say so, and point you toward someone who is.
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