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Dr. Yasmin Jilla

Dr. Yasmin Jilla is a physician board certified by the American Board of
Psychiatry and Neurology in Adult, Child, and Adolescent Psychiatry.
She provides psychiatric evaluations, consultations, and medication
management services for children, adolescents, and young adults. She
follows a conservative, evidence-based approach to prescribing
psychotropic medications and promotes holistic and collaborative
mental health treatment. She believes in providing compassionate care
that is individualized, family driven, and youth guided. She aspires to
maintain a positive, strength-based, and solutions-oriented approach to
mental health care with multi-systems involvement.

Dr. Jilla is a Virginia native. She attended college and medical school at
the University of Virginia. She attended the Medical University of South
Carolina for Adult Psychiatry Residency and completed a Child and
Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at Children’s National Medical Center,
George Washington University, in 2008 where she served as Chief
Fellow. After completing fellowship, Dr. Jilla became an Assistant
Professor at Yale University School of Medicine, Department of
Psychiatry, and was the lead psychiatrist to the Young Adult Services
team at the West Haven Mental Health Center. In 2010, she returned to
Virginia and joined the faculty at Georgetown University School of
Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, as an Assistant Professor. She
focused on outpatient psychiatric care and community mental health
services with the Georgetown Pediatric Mobile Clinic as well as
provided extensive teaching and supervision to medical students,
residents, and child psychiatry fellows. Dr. Jilla was co-director of the
Patient-Physician Communication Course for medical students at
Georgetown University. She also authored a book chapter on
externalizing disorders and adolescent addiction. Dr. Jilla remains part
of the Voluntary Faculty at Georgetown University.

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In 2015, Dr. Jilla joined Array Behavioral Care with the mission to
expand access to behavioral care through innovative applications of
technology with a focus on providing high quality community mental
health services to underserved and rural communities. She also
provides quality improvement in healthcare delivery support for mental
health services at Array.

During her free time, Dr. Jilla enjoys spending time with friends and
family, travelling, reading, and running.

Clinical areas of interest:
Depression
Anxiety
ADHD in children/adolescents
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Grief