Attention & focus
Difficulty with execution, organization, task completion, follow-through, or questions about whether ADHD explains the problem.
Every person hasa story worthunderstanding.
We are shaped by our experiences, relationships, and the people and world around us. Good psychiatric care begins with understanding that story.
Sometimes the work is focused—an ADHD evaluation, medication treatment, or help with anxiety or mood. Other times it involves relationships, identity, performance, direction, meaning, or patterns that have become difficult to change.
My goal is to understand you (or your child) as a person as well as the problem, and to make treatment thoughtful and straightforward.
Independent psychiatric care from an MD psychiatrist in Denver.
Integrating medical expertise, psychotherapy, and a developmental understanding across the lifespan.
MY PRACTICE
One physician. One relationship. Care that develops over time.
Direct care and continuity
I provide your evaluation, treatment planning, prescribing, therapy, and ongoing care myself. There is no handoff to a separate prescriber, nurse practitioner, physician assistant, therapist, or rotating provider.
Medical and therapeutic depth
My background and experience span medicine, general psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry, psychotherapy, and psychoanalytic coursework and training. That allows treatment to be focused when the problem is straightforward and deeper when it is not.
AREAS OF CARE
People come for different reasons.
Anxiety & mood
Anxiety, depression, stress, transitions, or a sense that something is not working as well as it could.
Relationships, identity & fulfillment
Recurring relationship patterns, loneliness, questions about direction, connection, meaning, or fulfillment.
Life transitions
Changes in school, work, family, relationships, roles, or direction that create stress or raise larger questions about what comes next.
Performance & demanding environments
The pressures, expectations, and tradeoffs that can come with demanding or highly competitive environments.
Diagnostic uncertainty
Situations in which symptoms overlap, the diagnosis is unclear, prior treatment has not helped enough, or a thoughtful second look would be useful.
CARE ACROSS STAGES OF LIFE
Different needs require different conversations.
FOR FAMILIES
Children are not simply smaller adults.
Children and adolescents need to be understood developmentally and in the context of family, school, relationships, and increasing independence.
Children & TeensFOR ADULTS
Adult care can begin in different places.
Adult work may begin with a specific symptom, a recurring pattern, or a broader question about how life is going.
AdultsPARTICULAR EXPERIENCE
ADHD deserves a careful look.
ADHD can significantly affect school, work, relationships, confidence, and everyday life. Because difficulty with attention and follow-through can have many causes, getting the diagnosis right matters.
When it is, effective treatment can make a substantial difference.
Learn about ADHD careTHERAPY & DEVELOPMENT
Therapy is a central part of my practice.
Therapy can help people recognize patterns earlier, understand what drives them, strengthen relationships, and create more room for change. My psychoanalytic coursework and training, together with my child and adolescent psychiatry training, help me look beyond symptoms to recurring patterns, development, relationships, and earlier experience.
More about my trainingMY PATH
An unconventional path to psychiatry.
Before medicine, my path took me through competitive athletics and finance. Those experiences shaped how I think about development, achievement, work, relationships, and the different directions a life can take.
I eventually found in psychiatry the kind of work I had been looking for: working closely with people, developing expertise, and being genuinely useful.
More about my pathDENVER’S LOWER HIGHLANDS
In Denver for 15 years.
I see patients in person in my Lower Highlands (LoHi) office and by telehealth.
GETTING STARTED
How care begins.
Reach out
Tell me briefly what brings you or your child in.
Initial assessment
An adult assessment typically takes two 45-minute appointments; child and adolescent assessments usually require one or two additional appointments.
Plan next steps
After the assessment, we decide together what kind of care makes sense.
IN PERSON
Denver’s Lower Highlands (LoHi)
2150 W. 29th Avenue, Suite 110
Denver, CO 80211
TELEHEALTH
Virtual appointments
Available where permitted by licensure.
FEES
Private-pay care
45 min$30030 min$25015 min$175
Superbills are available upon request.
A PLACE TO BEGIN
Request a consultation.
New patients: Send a brief message about what you’re looking for support with today. I’ll reply with any additional questions needed before sending availability and next steps.
Email directly: asa@asamarokus.com
Please do not include sensitive medical information in regular email.
Established patients: use Spruce secure messaging for clinical questions and prescription requests.