Cecil R Webster Jr MD

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Cecil R Webster Jr MD, Webster Clinic founder, psychiatrist, psycho

Cecil R Webster Jr MD

CEO, FOUNDER

CHILD, ADOLESCENT, & ADULT PSYCHIATRIST

PSYCHOANALYST

Harvard-trained and board-certified, Dr. Cecil R. Webster Jr is a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in Boston’s Back Bay who provides integrated psychotherapy and medication management for patients across the lifespan. A physician-educator at Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital, he teaches on psychotherapy, culture, and identity, and serves on the Board of Trustees at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute as well as the Board of Editors for Psychoanalytic Study of the Child. For the last ten years, he has co-led the Black Psychiatrists of Boston, an informal community of psychiatrists and psychiatry trainees in New England formed during the Civil Rights Era at Harvard Medical School in the 1960s.

At Webster Clinic, Dr. Webster’s clinical focus is identity development and complex presentations at the intersection of anxiety, mood, ADHD, trauma, sexuality, gender, and culture. He offers culturally responsive, LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC affirming care and has particular expertise in queer parenthood, sexual health, cultural curiosity, sexual and gender diverse youth, and professionals of color, and families navigating migration and intercultural transitions. He welcomes collaboration with pediatric and specialty teams. He regularly consults with schools, universities, and organizations on race, sexual identity, and minority stress, and he founded Webster Clinic as a non-insurance Boston psychiatry and psychotherapy practice designed for in-depth, continuity-oriented care.

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  • Families and adults often seek out Dr. Webster when there are layered identity questions around race, culture, sexuality, or gender intertwined with anxiety, mood, ADHD, or trauma, especially when they want a Boston psychoanalyst and child psychiatrist who can hold complex psychoanalytic work while also managing medication in one place. He is a particularly good fit for LGBTQIA+ families, queer parents, sexual and gender diverse youth, and professionals of color looking for a culturally attuned, high-accountability therapeutic relationship.

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    • Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute: General Psychoanalysis

    • Cambridge Health Alliance / Harvard Medical School: Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

    • Baylor College of Medicine (Chief Resident): Psychiatry

    • Baylor College of Medicine: MD

    • Morehouse College: BA

  • Camp M, Webster C, Coverdale T, Coverdale J, Rayne R. The Joker: a dark night for depictions of mental illness. Academic Psychiatry 2010; 34:145–149.

    Webster C, It Can Get Better. Book Review. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 2013; 52(6):657-659.

    Webster C, Valentine L, Gabbard G. Film Clubs in Psychiatric Education: the Hidden Curriculum. Academic Psychiatry 2015;  29:601-604.

    Ahuja A, Webster C, Gibson N, Brewer A, Toledo S, Russell S. Bullying and Suicide: The Mental Health Crisis of LGBTQ Youth and How You Can Help. Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health 2015; 19(2):125-155.

    Webster C, Telingator C. LGBT Families. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Youth. Pediatric Clinics. 2016; 63(6):1107-1119.

    Grimes K, Webster C, Coffey S, Hagan G. Integrated Care for Children: A Shared Training Model. Medical Education. 2017; 51: 535-559.

    Webster C, “Psychotherapy: AACAP Psychodynamic Faculty Training and Mentorship Initiative” AACAP News. March/April 2018.

    Grimes K, Creedon T, Webster C, Coffey S, Hagan G, Chow C. Enhanced Child Psychiatry Access and Engagement via Integrated Care: A Collaborative Practice Model with Pediatrics. Psychiatric Services 2018 Jul 25

    Webster C, “Beverly Stoute, MD: Winner of the 2018 AACAP Norbert and Charlotte Rieger Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Paper Award” AACAP News. November/December 2018.

    Webster C, “‘Is it because I’m Black, Dr. Webster?’: Racial Identity Development in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy ” AACAP News. September/October 2019.

    Webster C, Telingator C. Cultural Considerations in the United States. In: Van Schalkwyk G, Turban J, Forcier M, editors. Pediatric Gender Identity: Gender-affirming Care for Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth. Cham, Switzerland. 2020.

    Webster C. When Lines Get Blurred. In: Kennedy K, Welton R, Yeomans F, editors. Supervising Individual Psychotherapy. Washington. 2023.

    Hill K, Qayyum Z, Webster CR Jr. Implications and Considerations of Sexual and Gender Identities in Dynamic Psychotherapies. Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am. 2025 Jul;34(3):459-470. doi: 10.1016/j.chc.2025.03.007. Epub 2025 Apr 30. PMID: 40516956.