Dr. Andrew Ferber MD

Individual psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy, both short and long-term, usually intensive and always supportive.

I have worked with patients of all ages—from infants to the dying—and across a broad range of conditions, from chronic psychotics to normal individuals seeking to improve or optimize their lives and environments. I have worked with patients in both inpatient and outpatient settings.

Group experience includes couples, families, work and family networks, intensive therapy groups, management groups, staff groups of all sizes, and training workshops with up to 2000 participants. I have consulted for departments of psychiatry, training and research programs, hospital wards, schools, senior facilities, and more.

Administrative experience: Management of acute and chronic inpatient services, emergency rooms and crisis teams, community support programs, family therapy and community psychiatry training, and several research teams where I served as senior investigator. Throughout my career, my focus has been on innovative program design in therapy, training, and research.

Teaching experience: As director of the family studies section at AECOM, I helped develop one of the largest and most successful family therapy training programs to date. I have also taught and supervised most of the modalities mentioned in the treatment experience section. Teaching, supervision, and training are among my strongest skills. I become a mentor, guide, and friend to the staff wherever I work.

Research experience: I have conducted research in psychopharmacology, psychophysiology, infant development, epidemiology of mental illness, reliability of intra-informant reports, outcomes of voluntary sterilization, role and communication in families of schizophrenics, human ethology and territoriality, population epidemiology of illnesses in African villages, prevalence of hypertension, the natural history of alcoholism and families, and post-traumatic stress disorder in veterans.

For four years, I was Senior Psychiatrist at Elite DNA Therapy, Fort Myers, Florida. Saw patients, supervised many ARNPs, therapists, and other staff. Participated in program and staff development, helping the organization grow from 20 to 200 staff. Saw several thousand patients, gained extensive experience with ADHD, autism spectrum disorder, PTSD, and psychiatric problems common in South Florida’s aging population. Also learned about mitochondrial medicine, genetics, and holistic psychiatry.

2018–2020: MD at Liberate Florida (now Emerald Medical Center), a medical cannabis clinic in Naples. A new frontier. I have seen 400 patients so far, impressed by the results. Learned a new dimension of trauma treatment—trauma as unfinished business; one can let go without endless retelling.

Consultant Psychiatrist at Center for Progress and Excellence, Fort Myers, FL. Supervision and consultation for a team of 40 crisis workers serving Collier, Lee, Hendry, and Charlotte counties. Revisited and updated 60 years of crisis work, understanding that crisis is both danger and opportunity.

Led several six-day workshops on Conscious Death, Conscious Life with my wife in San Diego, Seattle, and Mysore, India. Experienced providing guidance and initiation to many unique individuals from four continents.