The care we offer

Psychiatric care at Pelican Medical Group begins with a thorough, unhurried diagnostic evaluation — one that situates your symptoms inside the full story of your life, not just a symptom checklist. From there, your psychiatrist partners with you on medication decisions, explaining the reasoning, monitoring your response carefully, and adjusting as your needs evolve. You are never handed a prescription and left to figure the rest out alone.

Our psychiatric care is delivered by physicians who completed an MD or DO, a four-year residency in psychiatry, and who hold board certification from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Visits are scheduled at the frequency your care requires.

• Diagnostic psychiatric evaluation
• Ongoing psychiatric medication management
• Coordination with primary care & specialty providers
• Care for mood disorders, anxiety disorders, OCD, trauma, perinatal mental health, and major life transitions
• Telehealth or in-person at your preference

Relational work at Pelican Medical Group acknowledges what most people already sense: that the people we love most are often the ones we find hardest to talk to. Couples and family sessions are structured to create enough safety for honest conversation, with a clinician who can hold the space without taking sides. The goal is not to eliminate conflict but to change what conflict costs you.

Relationships are part of behavioral health. Our couples and family clinicians are trained in evidence-based systemic and relational modalities, and care is delivered with the same evidence base as our individual treatment.

• Couples therapy (Emotionally Focused Therapy, Gottman Method-informed)
• Family therapy for adults and adult-child family units
• Parent guidance for adults navigating parenting under stress

Beyond general mental health care, Pelican Medical Group offers focused programming for conditions and life circumstances that benefit from targeted clinical attention. These specialty tracks bring together relevant expertise, tailored treatment planning, and peer-informed understanding of what it actually feels like to live with a particular challenge. If your situation has felt too specific for a general approach, this is the place to start.

Some conditions benefit from a clinician with focused training. Our specialty programs are organized around the diagnostic categories that present most often in adult outpatient behavioral health, staffed by clinicians with additional training in each area.

• Anxiety disorders
• Mood disorders
• Trauma and PTSD
• Perinatal mental health
• Grief and loss
• Life transitions
• Workplace burnout

Therapy here is individual, relational, and paced to you. Your therapist will draw from whatever evidence-based approach fits your particular situation — whether that's working through patterns that began long ago, developing concrete skills for the present, or finding language for experiences that have felt unspeakable. Sessions are a full therapeutic hour, and the relationship you build with your clinician is treated as the engine of the work.

Our therapists are independently licensed (LCSW, LMFT, LMHC, LPC, PsyD, or PhD) and matched to your care based on your goals and the modalities best suited to them. Sessions are typically scheduled weekly or biweekly to start.

• Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
• Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)
• Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills
• Psychodynamic and supportive psychotherapy
• Trauma-focused care
• Perinatal and postpartum-specific therapy

Secure video appointments extend the same quality of care you'd receive in our offices to wherever you are in Louisiana — your living room, your lunch break, a quiet corner of wherever life has taken you. The platform is HIPAA-compliant, the sessions are full-length, and the relationship with your clinician carries seamlessly between in-person and virtual visits. Geography should never be the reason someone doesn't get help.

Where clinically appropriate, both psychiatric care and psychotherapy are available through HIPAA-compliant telehealth. The same clinicians, the same care — delivered to wherever you can find a quiet, private space within your state of residence.

• Telepsychiatry medication management
• Teletherapy for psychotherapy and couples care
• Secure, HIPAA-compliant platform
• Equal-fee, in-network billing where your plan permits