Bryan Pridgen, MD

Bryan Pridgen, MD, is the medical director of the Belmont Adolescent Partial Hospital Program at McLean Hospital and an instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. In addition to his clinical responsibilities, Dr. Pridgen also supervises and teaches residents in the Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean Hospital psychiatry training programs. He is a board-certified adult and child and adolescent psychiatrist experienced in a wide arrange of therapeutic techniques, including psychodynamic psychotherapy, dialectical behavior therapy, family therapy, and psychopharmacology.

Dr. Pridgen is skilled at working with both adults and children with mood and anxiety disorders, developmental delays, personality disorders, chronic suicidality/self-injurious behavior, acute and complicated grief, chronic medical illness, and histories of interpersonal trauma. He has also worked extensively with adolescents struggling with matters of personal identity, including gender and sexual orientation.