Shawn B. Hersevoort, MD, MPH

Specialties

Dr. Hersevoort has work experience in virtually all environments of mental health services including inpatient, outpatient, crisis, and emergency psychiatry. In the past 5 years these have included consultation or teaching relationships with the inpatient services at Alta Bates, in Berkeley, the Consultation-​Liason service at the University of California at San Francisco, and the emergency department at John George Psychiatric Pavilion, in San Leandro. In 2009, Dr. Hersevoort was elected as a Councilor-​at-​Large for the Northern California Psychiatric Society, which is the American Psychiatric Association division for Northern California. Here he will help with organization, planning, and delivery of psychiatric services for the state of California. He is currently on staff at California Pacific Medical Center as an adjunct professor of psychiatry. He has worked as a consultant to, and evaluator for, several law practices in both San Francisco and Los Angeles.

History

Established in 2007.

Welcome to the private psychiatric practice of Dr. Shawn Hersevoort. The goal of the practice is to deliver both quality and individually tailored treatment in a flexible, accessible, and affordable way. Dr. Hersevoort practices general adult psychiatry in San Francisco, California. He also provides consultation for patients in a variety of other treatment settings. In his private practice, the doctor provides evaluations, medications, and psychotherapy to individuals. The treatment approach is primarily psychodynamic, using a biopsychosocial model to evaluate and understand patient difficulties. Depending on the circumstances and the nature of the difficulties each patient will benefit from a different treatment plan based on their individual needs. Psychiatric difficulties can range from primarily biological to fundamentally psychological with very different treatments shown to be effective. These interventions may include medications, psychotherapy, both, or neither.

Meet the Business Owner

Shawn H.

Business Owner

Dr. Hersevoort has extensive education and training in both the biological and psychological aspects of mental health. He holds undergraduate degrees in both biochemistry and clinical psychology from University of California Davis and California State University Sacramento. He also holds a Master’s in Public Health in International Health and Development from Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in New Orleans, Louisiana. His medical degree is from Tulane University School of Medicine. His psychiatric training was completed at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, California. CPMC is known to be one of the best programs in the country for the training of psychotherapy, demonstrated by both a long tradition of skilled graduates as well as objectively by a top ranking on the Columbia Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Skills Test yearly since its conception. Dr. Hersevoort is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.