Psychiatry in Boston that sees the whole person
Unhurried, relationship-based care for children, teens, and adults in Boston's Back Bay. LGBTQ+ affirming. Private pay.
WHO WE SERVE
We work with children, families, adults, and LGBTQ+ individuals across the lifespan
Children & Teens
Mood, behavior, anxiety, and school challenges that feel larger than a phase, and family dynamics that are hard to decode on your own. We see children from age five through emerging adulthood, with parent guidance embedded in every case.
Learn more about child & teen care
Adults
High-functioning on the outside, with worry, sadness, or a sense of stuckness that doesn’t match how life is supposed to feel. Insight-oriented psychiatry and psychotherapy — unhurried, relationship-based, and not split across multiple providers.
LGBTQ+ Individuals and Families
Identity, relationships, and belonging in shifting cultural and political contexts. We provide explicitly affirming care for LGBTQ+ youth, adults, couples, and families, including those navigating parenthood and family-building.
Professionals, Families, & Children of Color
Ambition and care carried in institutions where racism and bias are part of the environment, and in intimate relationships shaped by that context. You and your family need not be the only ones in the room.
Learn more about Professionals, family, and children of color
WHAT WE TREAT
Our condition-specific pages go deeper into the clinical approach, who we work with, and what to expect. Each is written by the clinicians who treat it.
Your mind won't stop. The what-ifs, the replaying, the dread that sits in your chest before the day even starts. We work with panic, social anxiety, OCD, and the particular exhaustion of a brain that refuses to quiet down.
You're going through the motions but nothing lands. The things that used to help don't anymore, and the flatness has become its own weight. We help people find their way back when effort alone isn't enough.
Living between two worlds means grieving one while building the other. The isolation, the family tension, the constant code-switching; we understand the psychological cost of belonging nowhere and everywhere at once.
When a family comes apart, children absorb what the adults can't say. We give kids and adolescents a place to think clearly while parents navigate what comes next.
Every family develops patterns. Some of them start protecting people and end up trapping them. We help families see what's actually happening and find a way through that doesn't require someone to be the problem.
The distance didn't happen overnight. Trust fractures, resentment builds, and the same argument replays in different rooms. We help couples decide, clearly and less destructively, what they want to fight for.
The first real separation from home, from who you were, from the version of yourself everyone expected. Academic pressure is only part of it. We work with the identity crisis underneath.
It's exhausting to live in a world that requires you to explain yourself before you've even finished understanding yourself. We offer a space where identity is not the presenting problem. It is one of many starting points.
Building a family outside the expected script brings its own joy and its own grief; the logistics, the losses, the questions no one prepared you for. It is more than a screening. We help you make considered decisions, as a couple or on your own.
HOW WE WORK
What makes Webster Clinic different
Physician-led care with a psychotherapy foundation
Our psychiatrists are trained in both psychotherapy and medication evaluation. Treatment is not split between a prescriber and a separate therapist — you work with one physician who holds both.
Unhurried evaluation and genuine clinical depth
Initial consultations include time to hear your story, a developmental and medical review, and the use of screening tools where they help. We are not running 15-minute med checks.
A setting designed for reflective work
Sessions take place in well-appointed, light-filled rooms with sound privacy and comfortable seating. The space is designed to feel more like a private sitting room than a clinic.
Explicitly affirming and culturally responsive
An affirming stance toward LGBTQ+ and BIPOC patients is not an accommodation — it is central to how we were trained and how we practice. Several of our clinicians have published and taught on identity, culture, and mental health.
Private-pay with superbill support
We are an out-of-network practice. We provide superbills that many patients use to obtain partial reimbursement through PPO plans, HSAs, or FSAs. No insurance-driven visit limits or fragmented split-care models.
Our Story“The summer I was seven, my grandmother, one of the few Black nurses in rural Texas, let me come along on her night shifts at the nursing home where she worked. Before we walked into each room, she’d pause in the doorframe and tell me who we were about to meet.”
-Cecil R. Webster Jr., MD, Founder
MEET OUR CLINICIANS
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Jacqueline Buchanan MD
Child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist
Harvard/Cambridge Health Alliance trained. Relationship-based, trauma-informed care for children, adolescents, and adults. Psychotherapy embedded in every clinical relationship.
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Sundus Mari MD
Child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist
Harvard/Boston Children’s Hospital trained. Attuned with children, adolescents, and adults straddling cultures and life changes. Psychotherapy at depth in English, German, and Arabic.
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Cecil R Webster Jr MD
Child, adolescent & adult psychiatrist · Psychoanalyst · Founder
Harvard Medical School physician-educator. Board member, Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. Expertise in LGBTQ+ psychiatry, professionals of color, and psychoanalytic treatment. Harvard Health Publishing contributor.
Our psychiatrists are recognized teachers, authors, and public voices on mental health. We are faculty educators at Harvard Medical School, McLean Hospital, and Cambridge Health Alliance
RECOGNITIONS & LEADERSHIP
Top LGBTQ+ Doctors; Top Black Doctors; Rising Stars (Castle Connolly)
Black Psychiatrists of Boston
MEDIA APPEARANCES
WURD Radio (Philadelphia)
GETTING STARTED
What to expect from a first visit
Book a brief phone consultation
Schedule a short introductory call with a Webster Clinic psychiatrist. You’ll have the chance to share what brings you in, ask questions about our approach, and confirm we’re the right fit before committing to a full appointment.
Your first visit
A full clinical evaluation in our comfortable Back Bay office. Time to speak, think together, and gather history without being rushed. For children and teens, this typically includes time with caregivers and the young person separately and together.
A plan that is yours
We discuss options together: ongoing psychotherapy, therapy with medication, consultation, or a plan to return at a later point. You remain involved in every recommendation. We do not have a algorithm protocol, we have a clinical approach tailored to you.
COMMON QUESTIONS
Do you accept insurance?
We are a private-pay, out-of-network practice. We provide superbills that many patients use to obtain partial reimbursement through PPO plans, HSAs, or FSAs. We do not bill insurance directly.
Do you offer telehealth?
Yes. We offer in-person care in our Back Bay office at 745 Boylston Street, Suite 405, Boston. Telehealth is available for established patients located in Massachusetts.
Do you work with children as well as adults?
Yes. We see patients from approximately age five through emerging adulthood and across the adult lifespan. Child and adolescent cases include parent guidance as a standard part of care.
How quickly can I be seen?
Appointments are often available within one to two weeks of your initial phone consultation.
Serving Boston and the surrounding area
Our office is in Boston’s Back Bay at 745 Boylston Street, Suite 405, Boston MA 02116. We see patients in person from Back Bay, Beacon Hill, South End, Brookline, Cambridge, Somerville, Newton, and surrounding areas. Telehealth is available for patients physically located in Massachusetts.
Call us at 617.859.5953 M- F 9am - 6pm
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