Adam Strassberg M.D.

Adam Strassberg has a B.A. degree, Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University, an M.S. degree from the California Institute of Technology and an M.D. degree from Stanford University School of Medicine. He completed his psychiatric internship and residency at Stanford University Hospital and Clinics. Dr. Strassberg is licensed to practice medicine by the California State Medical Board and he is board-certified in psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

The focus of his practice is on treating adults through the use of various psychotherapies, psychopharmacologies, or combinations of both, as indicated by the specific diagnoses and circumstances of the individual patient. Psychiatry is as much an art as a science, however Dr. Strassberg prefers to use “empirically-validated” treatments whenever and wherever possible. (“Empirically-validated” implying that a medication or a therapy has been tested in scientific trials against a placebo treatment.) In addition to offering medication treatment options, Dr. Strassberg also typically provides psychotherapy in the integrative model, combining targeted techniques from Cognitive therapy, Behavioral therapy, Existential, Jungian, DBT, Mastersonian, Attachment-based, and Psychodynamic schools.

Dr. Strassberg is a popular speaker in his local community where he lectures to the public on a wide variety of mental health issues. In March 2015, in response to a tragic cluster of suicides, he authored “Keep Calm and Parent On”, a guest opinion in the Palo Alto Weekly. The piece quickly went viral to over 240,000 views and has been shared across the globe. Dr. Strassberg continues to blog and speak publicly with a focus on popularizing basic issues in mental health diagnosis and treatment, understandings of happiness and emotional well-being, best practices for parenting, minimizing suicide risk factors, and the enthusiastic destigmatization of mental health care.