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Welcome

Kevin W. Cates, MD, MPH, is a Harvard-trained board-certified psychiatrist based in New York City. He presently holds a faculty appointment with New York University, where he teaches medical students and resident physicians while providing patient care.

He provides the following services in clinics across Manhattan, the Bronx, and Brooklyn.:

  • outpatient psychiatric care

  • medication management

  • psychotherapy

  • esketamine (spravato)

  • transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS, BrainsWay)

  • substance use treatment (including suboxone)

Additionally he provides remote consultative services to primary care physicians managing patients with complex psychiatric needs in settings with low access to psychiatric care.

Areas of Special Interest

  • Interventional Psychiatry

    ECT, TMS, es/Ketamine, psychedelics

  • Consultation Psychiatry

    Access in low-access / rural primary care settings

  • Severe Mental Illness

    Treating schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, treatment-resistant depression, and other conditions

  • Substance Use Disorders

    Opioid, Alcohol, Stimulant, Sedative, and other Substance Use Disorders

  • Integration with Primary Care

    For patients with complex intersecting medical and psychiatric needs

  • Psychopharmacology

    Prescribing informed by neurobiology

  • Pharmacogenetics

    Genetic testing used to inform treatment, when “trial and error” has failed

  • Cardiac Psychiatry

    Reducing the negative impact of medications on cardiovascular health

  • Medical education

    Training and supporting our next generation of physicians

Treatment Philosophy

While a physician is an expert in treatments and medications, you are an expert on yourself. You deserve a physician who respects you as an equal partner in treatment. You and Dr. Cates will work together to make a treatment plan tailored to your specific personal needs.

Dr. Cates strives to provide exceptional treatment in psychotherapy by embracing the following values:

  • Unconditional positive regard and mutual respect

  • Listening to understand

  • Empathy

  • Hope

 

Located in NYC, serving areas nationwide remotely

Dr. Cates practices at several clinical sites. See here for a list of current practice locations, and how to contact them. Please contact the practice sites directly for questions regarding making an appointment.

 
 

  • https://www.kevincatesmd.com

    Dr. Cates has recently closed his private practice in order to focus on providing care in other settings, and expanding his academic role.

  • https://nyulangone.org/doctors/1720582190/kevin-w-cates

    Dr. Cates provides psychotherapy and psychopharmacology at Sunset Terrace Family Health Center, a Federally Qualified Health Center affiliated with NYU Langone Health. Through this clinic in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, Dr. Cates provides care within communities historically and often presently excluded from access to adequate medical care.
    Sunset Terrace Family Health Center at NYU Langone Health only currently accepts referrals from other NYU-affiliated facilities and PCPs.

  • https://www.urbanhealthplan.org/

    Dr. Cates provides psychotherapeutic and psychopharmacologic treatments at sites in Harlem and the Bronx through Urban Health Plan, a Federally Qualified Health Center providing care to low-income / low-resource / low-access communities who have historically been excluded from access to adequate healthcare.

  • https://brooklynminds.com/get-started/

    Dr. Cates provides psychotherapeutic, psychopharmacologic, and interventional treatments (TMS and es/ketamine) in Midtown Manhattan and Brooklyn through Brooklyn Minds, a private mental health practice.

  • Dr. Cates provides nationwide and international consultation services on a case-by-case basis to primary care clinicians without consistent access to psychiatric services for their patients.

Biography

Dr. Cates earned his MD from Western Michigan University School of Medicine in 2018. He completed his psychiatric specialty training at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard South Shore Psychiatry Residency, where he served as Chief Resident.

He has received several awards for professionalism, leadership, and teaching. He is a member of the American Psychiatric Association and the American Medical Association, and the Medical Society of the State of NY.

Dr. Cates has written, published, and presented nationally on topics including pharmacogenetics in psychiatric prescribing, management of psychiatric medications in patients with cardiac conduction delays, management of adverse effects of stimulant medications, the role of integrated primary care and psychiatry in advancing access to mental health care, management of eating disorders in transgender and gender non-binary patients, and the use of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis for HIV Prevention in Psychiatry.

He has an ongoing interest in treating patients at the intersection of psychiatric complexity, medical complexity, and substance use.

 

 

Education

  • Residency: Harvard South Shore Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, VA Boston Healthcare System

    • 4 years of specialty training in psychiatry

    • Chief Resident and Chief of Education

Licensure

  • New York: 312747

  • Massachusetts: 276578

  • Missouri: 2020029117

  • Illinois: coming soon

Specialty Board Certification/Eligibility

  • American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology: Board Certified (2022)

 

Consultation Services

Dr. Cates provides private consultation services to primary care practices with limited access to quality mental health care. In this capacity, clinics contracting with Dr. Cates have the opportunity to seek additional evaluations on complex psychiatric patients, and guidance on choosing and managing psychopharmacologic regimens.

Dr. Cates provides consultation services primarily to clinics in rural areas, where the nearest psychiatrist may be hours away. Services are provided via video telehealth, and consultation is offered on a case-by-case basis depending on need and availability. Fees depend upon the nature of the consultation.

Additionally, Dr. Cates provides affordable psychotherapeutic and clinical supervision services to a small number of other mental health clinicians, on a case-by-case basis depending on need and availability.

Questions?

Questions regarding the availability of consultation services can be directed to Dr. Cates using the “Submit a Consultation Request” button.

Requests to join Dr. Cates’s private practice waitlist are no longer being considered. The private practice is closed to new patients.

If you are a patient interested in asking your primary care physician to book a consultation with Dr. Cates, please direct them to the form here.