Dr. Chineze Worthington

As a psychiatrist, I provide psychotherapy and medication management for adults and adolescents. I graduated from Rush Medical University in Chicago and completed a psychosomatic fellowship at Mount Sinai in New York. I work at Columbia Medical Center as a psychosomatic psychiatrist, focusing on the connection between mental health diagnosis and physical illness. I believe all persons are inherently whole and worthy; let's peel back the life experiences that hinder that realization.

I view medication as providing a window in which to make cognitive changes towards a worthy mind that works for you; that's more connected to an inner vision of oneself. When I work with a client, my first priority is to be curious and understand the mind before me. I believe that therapy is simply a series of realizations about oneself. After which, one can decide how they would like to facilitate the life they envision for themselves.

Medication acts like a rope in helping a mind gain a foothold in climbing out of emotional quicksand. But medication is the beginning, not the goal. As a prescriber, I see medication as a window and an opportunity. Once the medication work has begun, therapy helps you sustain a new thought environment with a clearer mind. There is no “happy pill”, only a willingness to work towards happiness. That’s what I’m honored to help my clients move toward.