About Dr. Lila Flavin
Dr. Lila Flavin is a psychiatrist based in Providence, RI and Boston, MA. Her practice has a particular emphasis on college-age students, pregnant people, and LBTQ+ individuals. She values creating a place that is free of shame to discuss hard topics like addiction, sexuality and ambivalence around pregnancy and parentings.
Dr. Flavin can provide both medication medication and psychotherapy or work together with a therapist to provide a team approach. Regarding medication, Dr. Flavin appreciates that there is no one right answer regarding medication and is open to working together to find a regimen that works best. For therapy, she targets present moment problems and ways to navigate a crisis or strong emotional reaction. As the crisis resolves, it's often possible to broaden the work and understand larger patterns that are informed by the past. Dr. Flavin also has special training in treating trauma with EMDR whereby the patient reprocesses the trauma and develops a new narrative regarding the event.