Most outpatient clinicians don’t struggle with recognizing mental health conditions — they struggle with what to do next.
A patient has a partial response to an SSRI. Another is drinking more than they should, but not clearly severe. Someone with anxiety has tried multiple medications without clear improvement. These are common outpatient scenarios — and they rarely come with obvious next steps.
Primary care and other outpatient clinicians are on the front lines of mental health care. They prescribe the majority of psychiatric medications and manage questions about depression, anxiety, sleep, ADHD, trauma, and substance use every day. Yet most were not trained with clear, practical frameworks for navigating these decisions in brief outpatient visits.
Collaborative Psychiatry exists to make those moments feel more structured, more predictable, and easier to navigate. The focus is not simply on providing more information. It is on helping clinicians think through common psychiatric decisions in a more systematic way — whether that means deciding when to switch medications, when to augment treatment, when alcohol use warrants intervention, or when a diagnosis needs a closer second look.
Our core offering is a set of structured Audio Courses built around real outpatient clinical scenarios. These are supported by concise clinical tools, practical reference materials, and short-form teaching designed to reinforce key concepts and fit into the flow of patient care.
The goal is not to turn primary care clinicians into psychiatrists. It is to make common psychiatric decisions feel more manageable within the realities of outpatient medicine.
Mental health is primary care. Collaborative Psychiatry is designed to help it function that way.
About the Founder
Hello, I’m Daniel Suter. I’m a psychiatrist with specialty training in addiction psychiatry. Collaborative Psychiatry grew out of a recurring problem I saw in outpatient practice: clinicians were often comfortable recognizing psychiatric conditions, but lacked a clear framework for deciding what to do next.
That gap shows up in everyday care — partial responses to antidepressants, uncertainty about when to change course, and questions around ADHD, anxiety, sleep, and substance use. These are routine decisions, but they often lack a structured approach.
Collaborative Psychiatry was built to make those decisions more systematic without adding unnecessary complexity — equipping non-psychiatrists with practical psychiatric frameworks they can use in real-world outpatient care.
Medical School:
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Psychiatry Residency:
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship:
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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