Wendy Oliver-Pyatt

For over 20 years Dr. Wendy Oliver-Pyatt has been a clinician, educator, and health care advocate. She has held faculty positions at New York University, Albert Einstein School of Medicine and University of Nevada School of Medicine. She developed innovative treatment programs known for integrating compassion with science. For the patients who come under the care of her practice, her treatment involves addressing the core issues that drive these conditions, so that true healing can occur.

Dr. Wendy Oliver-Pyatt completed her training as a psychiatrist at NYU-Bellevue Hospital where she served as a Chief Resident. Over the years, her training and experiences involve direct patient care, and leadership across multiple levels of care and treatment modalities, including inpatient psychiatry, residential addiction programs (where she served as a medical director), forming PACT PROGRAMS (Programs for Assertive Community Treatment), emergency room osychiatry, public outpatient care and private outpatient care. In 2001 she became the State of Nevada, Division of Mental Health and Disability Services Medical Director, where she oversaw all aspects of mental health treatment in the state of Nevada, for which she received Senatorial Recognition. She was the first woman and youngest person to ever assume this role. In 2003 Dr. Oliver-Pyatt founded her first Residential Eating Disorder Treatment program; Center for Hope of the Sierras This program expanded to add in Partial Hospitalization Care and Transitional Living. Later, in 2008, Dr. Oliver-Pyatt went on to found Oliver-Pyatt Centers, and Clementine, both are nationally and internationally recognized as top programs in the field of eating disorders.

Among the distinguishing features of Dr. Oliver-Pyatt’s treatment approach:

BEING AVAILABLE:

You will notice a high level of responsivity. You will not be frustrated by wasted time trying to communicate with providers, get help in a crisis, schedule follow up and adjust treatment as needed for your benefit. Dr. Oliver-Pyatt truly cares about you and your experience, and wants you to feel connected, heard, and valued.

PASSION FOR HER WORK AND COMPASSION FOR YOUR EXPERIENCES:

You will be treated with the upmost of compassion, respect and dignity. Dr. Oliver-Pyatt and her team feel honored to engage with patients in the deep and meaningful work of self-exploration, self-awareness and growth. Dr. Oliver-Pyatt and her team take responsibility for each person they are working with, and will be there for you as you work on your healing process, helping you to to manage stress and change and complicated life events, and to enhance your overall well-being and internal peace.

DEEP LEVEL OF KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:

Dr. Oliver-Pyatt trained at NYU-Bellevue hospital, where she experienced an in depth treatment psychodynamic an pharmacologic training and worked in a vast array of treatment settings. Following her residency she went on to become an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at University of Nevada and Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center. She has in depth knowledge and experience of complex psychopharmacology, while also having extensive success at guiding patients through complex psychological and behavioral struggles. Her attuned approach, intuitive foundation, understanding of psychodynamics, and ability to develop meaningful treatment interventions and protocols is grounded in 20 + years of experience, extensive training, and working with dynamic teams to help patients with the most complex forms of mental health struggles.

THOUGHT LEADER:

Dr. Oliver-Pyatt is a well-known clinician in the field of eating disorders. She has served on the Board of Directors for the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals, was the Chairman of the Binge Eating Disorder Association (which has now merged with the National Eating Disorder Association), and has presented at national and international conferences for over 20 years.

Dr. Oliver-Pyatt is a Fellow of the Academy for Eating Disorders, a Fellow of the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals, and is a Certified Eating Disorder Supervisor. With regard to her eating disorder treatment, she is able to work with you across multiple domains ranging from individual therapy, psychiatric/medication management, nutrition therapy and family therapy & psychoeducation.

Her ability to provide care for all forms of mental health conditions across multiple domains allows your care to be far more cohesive and less scattered. Dr. Oliver-Pyatt will collaborate with you in the development of a comprehensive treatment protocol to assure that all of your needs are met, across the biological, psychological, social/spiritual domains. She match you with other critical providers who she has relationships with and trusts, when indicated, (including life coaches if indicated), and will coordinate your treatment, so that your care will be comprehensive, cohesive and holistic. Dr. Oliver-Pyatt and her team will work tirelessly on your behalf to assure that you are provided with the care and responsiveness that can help you move in the direction of healing, self-empowerment, and creating meaning, and deepening connections in your life.