Owen Muir, M.D.
Medical Director
Dr. Muir is the Medical Director at Brooklyn Minds. Dr. Muir also oversees our cutting-edge deep Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (dTMS) program. He is a graduate of Amherst College and received his Medical Degree from The University of Rochester School of Medicine. He is board-certified in adult and child and adolescent psychiatry. He completed his adult psychiatry residency at the Hosftra-Northwell School of Medicine at the Zucker Hillside Hospital and completed his child psychiatry fellowship at NYU School of Medicine. He is a clinical assistant professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and is on the faculty at Rockland Children's Psychiatric Center. He is a visiting lecturer at the Pratt School of Design. He has a prior appointment of Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry at Hofstra-Northwell SOM.
Dr.Muir is one of the few official supervisors in North America in a modality called Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) for adults. He has additional training in utilizing MBT with adolescents, families and even teams and systems. As Medical Director, Dr. Owen Muir oversees Brooklyn Minds' position as the only site in America offering full, on-model MBT services for adolescents in the outpatient setting. It is one of the largest outpatient MBT practices for adults, children and families in the country.
Dr. Muir specialties include depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders, PTSD, substance disorders and personality disorders. He has broad addiction treatment experience as part of a comprehensive approach to wellness. This includes having a full buprenorphine waiver and ability to provide suboxone case management. Additionally, Dr.Muir is a Trainer in Good Psychiatric Management of Borderline Personality disorder. He is trained in Interpersonal Social Rhythm Therapy (IPSRT) for bipolar disorder, psychodynamic psychotherapy and in CBT for both OCD and PTSD.
Feeling at ease with a psychiatrist is not something that comes naturally for most people. Dr. Muir utilizes humor and empathy to help open doors for people to feel more comfortable. Dr.Muir is interactive and asks a lot of questions to ensure that he is getting the clearest picture possible about what is going on for the people he is working with.
Dr.Muir is one of the few official supervisors in North America in a modality called Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) for adults. He has additional training in utilizing MBT with adolescents, families and even teams and systems. As Medical Director, Dr. Owen Muir oversees Brooklyn Minds' position as the only site in America offering full, on-model MBT services for adolescents in the outpatient setting. It is one of the largest outpatient MBT practices for adults, children and families in the country.
Dr. Muir specialties include depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders, PTSD, substance disorders and personality disorders. He has broad addiction treatment experience as part of a comprehensive approach to wellness. This includes having a full buprenorphine waiver and ability to provide suboxone case management. Additionally, Dr.Muir is a Trainer in Good Psychiatric Management of Borderline Personality disorder. He is trained in Interpersonal Social Rhythm Therapy (IPSRT) for bipolar disorder, psychodynamic psychotherapy and in CBT for both OCD and PTSD.
Feeling at ease with a psychiatrist is not something that comes naturally for most people. Dr. Muir utilizes humor and empathy to help open doors for people to feel more comfortable. Dr.Muir is interactive and asks a lot of questions to ensure that he is getting the clearest picture possible about what is going on for the people he is working with.
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