Joan Wheelis, MD

Joan Wheelis MD, is a senior consultant at the Gunderson Residence and the Gunderson Outpatient Program. An assistant professor of psychiatry, part-time, at Harvard Medical School and on the faculty of the combined MGH/McLean Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program, she is a training and supervising psychoanalyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and a dialectical behavior therapy trainer for Behavioral Tech.

Dr. Wheelis is the recipient of the Phil Isenberg Teaching award, Mel Kayce Award for Excellence in Psychotherapy, MGH/McLean Hospital Residents Psychotherapy Teaching Award, and is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Her current interests include the outpatient treatment of borderline personality, the nature of psychotherapeutic change, and forensic consultation regarding suicide.