WIP is a psychiatry practice. We see patients across Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia for the conditions psychiatrists treat — depression, anxiety, PTSD, OCD, ADHD, bipolar disorder, substance use, and suicidality.
Patients work with a board-certified psychiatrist who diagnoses, builds a treatment plan, and follows them over time. The same physician adjusts medication, decides whether TMS or ketamine belongs in the plan, and remains responsible for the care. Treatment decisions evolve with the patient, not with whoever happens to be available.
When an interventional treatment is indicated, we deliver it ourselves — within the same clinical relationship. Medication, TMS, ketamine, Spravato, and stellate ganglion block are tools available to the psychiatrist directing your care. Which tool, when, and for how long is a clinical decision made inside an ongoing treatment plan.
Washington Interventional Psychiatry has been practicing in Washington, DC since 2017, with a flagship clinic in Spring Valley, near Tenleytown. A second clinic opens in Rockville this fall. The practice serves as a core clinical training site for Georgetown University psychiatry residents — a relationship that anchors how we train clinicians, document protocols, and maintain a single standard of care across every location we open.
WIP’s interventional team meets weekly to review interventional cases. Cases are presented when they warrant additional clinical input — typically complex presentations, unclear candidacy, prior treatment failures, atypical responses, or decisions about sequencing and modification. The treating psychiatrist presents the case, and the group works through it together.
The practice is borrowed from academic medicine. Residency programs and hospital services run case conferences as a matter of course; most private psychiatric practices do not. We do it because interventional treatments warrant the additional clinical scrutiny — they are more involved than oral medication, often pursued after standard treatments have not worked, and benefit from being thought through by more than one psychiatrist.
The conference also functions as ongoing peer learning. New evidence, protocol refinements, and lessons from prior cases are discussed and incorporated into the practice’s approach. This is part of how the clinical standard at WIP stays consistent across our psychiatrists and across our locations.
The team structure is intentional. Patients see their clinician for clinical decisions, work with the same nursing team during interventional treatments, and reach their clinician’s assistant when they need scheduling or refills handled. The clinical relationship stays with the provider; the operational work happens around it.
Our psychiatrists are credentialed by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and trained at institutions including Yale, Cornell, Columbia, and Mount Sinai. Specialties across the group include adult, child and adolescent, addiction, and forensic psychiatry.
Our nursing staff plays a central role in the delivery of interventional and on-site psychiatric care. They are trained in clinical monitoring, medication administration, and patient safety protocols to support treatments such as ketamine therapy and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).
Nursing staff administer and monitor interventional treatments under physician oversight.
Washington Interventional Psychiatry works with licensed therapists and professional counselors who provide evidence-based psychotherapy across a range of mental health conditions.
Therapists collaborate closely with our psychiatrists to support comprehensive treatment plans and, when appropriate, participate in ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) within a structured medical framework. This integrated model allows psychotherapy, medication management, and interventional treatments to be coordinated under consistent psychiatric oversight.
To support continuity of care, Washington Interventional Psychiatry utilizes a dedicated team of trained virtual assistants with backgrounds in healthcare administration, nursing support, and insurance coordination.
Each psychiatrist and nurse practitioner is paired with a dedicated assistant. The level of involvement is tailored to the clinician’s workflow and the needs of the patient, creating a structured system for communication, medication refills, scheduling, insurance coordination, and documentation.
This model promotes timely responses, expedited prescription management, and coordinated follow-up while allowing physicians to focus on clinical decision-making and direct patient care.
WIP serves as a clinical training site for Georgetown University Department of Psychiatry residents. Residents rotate through the practice as part of their training in interventional psychiatry and neuromodulation. The relationship shapes the practice in concrete ways.
Our clinical protocols are documented to a standard that can be taught. Treatment decisions are made within frameworks that residents can learn and replicate. Outcomes are tracked and reviewed. New clinicians joining WIP — at any location — train into the same protocols and operate under the same oversight as physicians at our flagship clinic.
The teaching site relationship is the structural reason WIP can grow without diluting what the practice does. A standard that can be taught is a standard that can be opened in a new city.
The Standard
One clinician directs the care. Interventional treatments are tools within that care, applied when indicated and adjusted over time. The clinical standard is documented, taught, and consistent across every location we operate.
That is the practice.
