Dr. Wilson is a Board-Certified Psychiatrist with a passion for helping patients with advanced depression. She first felt the calling towards healthcare having grown up with a mother who was a VA nurse for 35 years, which is where she became aware of the growing need for more healthcare practitioners. She knew at a young age that she wanted to be a doctor and help people.
She entered medical school unsure of what path within medicine she planned to pursue, and in her third year, she completed her rotation in psychiatry and was hooked. Dr. Wilson was drawn into psychiatry by the stories and the ability to make connections and notice patterns when working with patients. She felt it was one of the few specialties that offered the opportunity to really get to know someone. She was able to delve into how their life and experiences led them to be the way they are.
Dr. Wilson recognizes that many people live with mental illness every day, and the diagnosis needs to be put in context with information given about treatment options and how to access support when needed. She prides herself on frank communication and offering clear, truthful information about prognosis, options, and hope. She finds a collaborative rapport with patients works best, where the patient also is engaged in treatment. She is invigorated by seeing patients come out of depression, find ways to get back out into the world, perhaps discover new hobbies, and become stronger, better, happier people.
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) first interested her as a highly effective treatment plan that blended her training in diagnosis and formulation to create a treatment plan with hands-on work, one that could provide patients relief from suffering. She was attracted to this ability of activating changes in brain circuitry on an outpatient basis, without anesthesia, and one that was far less invasive than other treatments for patients who had not responded to medications.
She joined TMS Health Solutions in December of 2017.