Physician Wellness Program

Specialized Psychiatric Care for Medical Professionals Under Monitoring

Facing monitoring by CPH, OPMC, HAVEN, or another oversight body is one of the most isolating experiences in medicine. The stakes — your license, your livelihood, your identity as a physician — require a level of clinical rigor, discretion, and professional understanding that a standard psychiatric practice rarely provides.

Dr. Lazarevic has spent over a decade providing psychiatric care and independent medical evaluations (IMEs) specifically for medical professionals under monitoring. As a physician herself, she understands the culture that brings colleagues to this position — and what it takes to move through it with defensible documentation, confidential care, and clinical integrity.

Independent Medical Evaluations (IMEs)

An IME with Dr. Lazarevic is recognized by CPH, OPMC, and HAVEN for its thoroughness and clinical defensibility. The evaluation includes a comprehensive psychiatric interview of 90 to 120 minutes — sometimes across two sessions for complex histories — collateral contacts with family members, colleagues, and prior providers (with your permission), thorough review of all relevant records, and a detailed clinical report delivered within approximately two weeks.

IME — includes all interviews, collateral contacts, record review, and written report. Does not include testing if that is indicated. Payment plans are available. The report is released upon full payment.

Ongoing Monitoring Support

For physicians requiring sustained psychiatric care during the monitoring period, Dr. Lazarevic provides:

Psychiatric Care and Medication Optimization — Expert evaluation and ongoing medication management, with careful attention to the documentation standards monitoring entities require.

Psychotherapy — Confidential sessions addressing the psychological toll of monitoring: the shame, the anxiety, the identity disruption that accompanies a licensing crisis. Psychotherapy is available as part of a coordinated treatment plan through our psychotherapy services.

Quarterly Monitoring Reports — Detailed progress reports prepared for monitoring entities, documenting treatment compliance, clinical progress, and your ongoing care needs — with full knowledge of what each body requires.

Substance Use, Psychiatric Illness, and the Physician Patient

Physicians seek Dr. Lazarevic's care for substance use concerns, psychiatric illness, and — very commonly — both at once. The particular pressures of medical practice — burnout, isolation, untreated depression and anxiety, and the ready access to substances — create patterns that standard addiction programs and standard psychiatric practices are not always equipped to address together.

Dr. Lazarevic holds board certification in both General Psychiatry and Addiction Psychiatry — a distinction held by fewer than 5% of psychiatrists. For physicians navigating a monitoring process that involves substance use, psychiatric conditions, or the intersection of both, this dual training means the full clinical picture is evaluated and treated under one roof.

What Makes This Different

Physician-to-physician understanding — Dr. Lazarevic treats colleagues. The culture of medicine — its particular shame, its silence, its professional identity stakes — informs every aspect of this program.

Rigorous, defensible documentation — IME reports and monitoring correspondence are detailed, evidence-based, and written with full knowledge of what CPH, OPMC, and HAVEN require.

Absolute confidentiality — All care is HIPAA-compliant and handled with the sensitivity appropriate to your professional and personal circumstances. As a self-pay practice, no insurance claims are filed — care does not appear on your insurance record.

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