Krasner Faculty Practice

The Foundation of Lasting Mental Health Recovery

“The Krasner Faculty Practice: psychiatry reimagined. Rigorous assessment, high-impact treatment first, and family at the center — a living plan for lasting change.”

Relational, Developmental, Family-Centered Psychiatry for Adolescents

The Krasner Faculty Practice is not business as usual. We are mission-driven, interdisciplinary, and united by a simple conviction: the old way of waiting for treatments to fail is backwards. We are inverting the paradigm.

A New Model for a Youth Mental Health Crisis

Adolescence is the most sensitive period of human development — when psychiatric conditions most often emerge. Yet teens and families are met with long waits, fragmented care, and conventional approaches that only escalate after repeated failures.

The Krasner Faculty Practice exists to change this trajectory.

How We Work: Living Assessment, Revolutionary Planning

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Rigorous Assessment, Done Right

Every case begins with PsychNow, our asynchronous digital intake, layered with in-depth evaluation by both psychiatrist and psychologist. These inputs generate a living treatment plan, not a report on a shelf, but a dynamic roadmap updated in real time.

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Planning as the Engine of Care

The treatment plan is the throughline of our work. It informs every decision, coordinates every intervention, and guides the full faculty practice in weekly Thursday meetings. Cohesion, communication, and flexibility are not buzzwords — they are the operating principles of our team.

Inverting the Paradigm

Conventional wisdom waits until therapies fail before escalating to more powerful treatments. We see this as a mistake. At the Krasner Faculty Practice, we begin with interventions that have the greatest effect sizes — interventional psychiatry, pharmacology, and experiential therapies that restore regulation and rewrite the narrative early in the treatment arc. Once the foundation is restored, teens are far better prepared to engage in conventional psychotherapy and sustain meaningful progress. This is not a tweak to the old model — it is a paradigm shift.

Our philosophy isn’t just theory—it’s the practical foundation that enables breakthrough when standard care has reached its limits.

Our Integrated Expertise

Our diverse faculty brings together:
  • Interventional psychiatry (TMS, ketamine, advanced pharmacology)
  • Outdoor behavioral health and movement-based therapies
  • Expressive arts (art, music, drama, creative writing)
  • Evidence-based psychotherapies (DBT, ACT, group therapy, psychodynamic)
  • Family therapy and parent management training

Family at the Center

The Krasner Faculty Practice models what families can be: cohesive, communicative, flexible. Family therapy runs the entire length of treatment, anchored by Dr. Krasner’s free parent support group every Tuesday. Parents are never left outside the process — they are part of it.

Why Families and Clinicians Choose Us

  • Incisive assessment powered by PsychNow and dual psychiatrist–psychologist input
  • Treatment plans that live, breathe, and guide care in real time
  • Early prioritization of high-impact interventions for greater engagement
  • Faculty that meets weekly on all cases
  • Care coordination and digital integration across the entire team
  • Family therapy and parent management training as core features, not add-ons

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