Dr. Jesse Morton Hilsen, MD practices integrative psychiatry, focusing on the use of positive lifestyle change to assist clients in overcoming serious health challenges. Through the use of both individual and group counseling, Dr. Hilsen provides a therapeutic environment that encourages each client to explore and integrate new habits that can greatly enhance the effectiveness of a variety of medical therapies. Concepts of nutrition, exercise, and stress management, that are at least vaguely familiar to most people, are brought into each individual’s personal understanding and daily routine through Dr. Hilsen’s unique approach, fostering success far beyond what medication, surgery, and “willpower” alone have to offer.
Dr. Hilsen received his MD degree from the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Buffalo, NY, and completed his psychiatry residency at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, NY. Over the course of his career he has treated children, adolescents, and adults, including military personnel at several US military bases, where he specialized in treating PTSD. He has studied and worked with alternative therapies such as nutritional-behavioral therapy and acupuncture, and was a founding member of the American Academy of Acupuncture. He also served as the Director of Children and Youth Services at the South Beach Psychiatric Center, Staten Island, NY.