James Jenkins(He/Him/His)

Dr. Jenkins is a full-time academic psychiatrist at McLean Hospital and faculty at Harvard Medical School who also has a small, solo private practice. Dr. Jenkins is skilled in the treatment of mood disorders, anxiety disorders, trauma-related disorders, and personality disorders. He completed his psychiatric residency at the Mass General Hospital and McLean Hospital Psychiatric Residency Program.

Dr. Jenkins greatly values transparency about the psychotherapeutic process. During his residency, Dr. Jenkins sought additional training in several evidence based therapies. This training included several years of weekly supervision groups, individual supervision with an expert clinician, and review of videotaped sessions. As a result of this intensive training, Dr. Jenkins is capable of not only psychiatric evaluation and management with medications, but can deliver adherent Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Mentalization Based Therapy. He also has significant experience in doing Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. Dr. Jenkins creates a unique, individualized treatment plan for each of his patients. Often this includes the combination of medications and psychotherapy, but in certain cases he can also do just medication management. Dr. Jenkins is an active therapist with a preference for change oriented work. He often uses behavioral interventions, especially earlier in the treatment so that symptom reduction can be achieved more rapidly. As treatment progresses, he often will shift the treatment plan to a more insight-oriented approach so that you can learn more about how your past affects current relational patterns.

Dr. Jenkins sees patient's in his office on the McLean campus. Because of the nature of his private practice, not all potential patients will be a good fit for his practice. Together with Dr. Jenkins you will decide whether or not it is a good match for treatment within the first 1-3 sessions.