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Psychiatric Center
9430 Turkey Lake Rd. Suite # 102
Orlando FL 32819
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260 Mohawk Road ,
Suite # 264
Clermont, Fl 34715
(407) 579-8759
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(407)352-5756
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Riffat Qureshi MD is Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry UCF College of Medicine Orlando, Florida. She is expert in pediatric psychopharmacology. She is Staff Psychiatrist at Lake Side Behavioral Hospital and Orlando Regional Hospital. Dr Qureshi is currently CEO/PRESIDENT of Florida Psychiatric Center PA.
Dr. Qureshi treats all adult and childhood psychiatric disorders with over two decades of experience. She is board certified from American Board Of Psychiatry & Neurology. Dr. Qureshi has completed her training from University of Cincinnati and Children Hospital Cincinnati, Ohio. Dr. Qureshi is working in Orlando from 1998.
Dr. Riffat Qureshi private practice covers area Orange, Seminole, Osceola and Lake county area. Dr. Qureshi have two offices one in Orlando in Dr Phillips Hospital and her other office is Clermont near South Lake Hospital.
She provides initial diagnostic psychiatric evaluations and treatment from preschool age and above. She has extensive experience in treating Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) including ADHD in populations where it may be under-recognized such as in girls, in gifted and talented youth, in adults and when co-occurring with other psychiatric disorders or symptoms. Her expertise includes safe, effective and conservative antidepressant medication treatment in moderate to severe depression and suicidality. In addition, Dr. Qureshi also provides second opinion consultations for evaluation of medication management.
She practices general adult psychiatry, addiction medicine and psychodynamic and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Dr. Qureshi treats a variety of psychiatric disorders including depression, anxiety, addiction, bipolar disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, personality disorders and others by utilizing medications as well as psychotherapy.
She also treats mood and co-occurring personality disorders including narcissistic and borderline conditions. She treats patients dually diagnosed with a psychiatric condition and substance use problems. She provides long-term treatment, time-limited treatment, crisis intervention and consultation. She uses a psychoanalytic approach, in addition to cognitive, dialectical, behavioral, mind-body, and biological models to better understand the complexity of individual patients and develop a treatment plan that is unique to their needs.
Our Philosophy and Focus of Treatment
I always follow an evidence-based practice, but also recognize the inadequacy of the current scientific research model to explain complicated mind-brain phenomena. Generalizability of findings from ideal study populations to the individual is also quite limited and not always apparent. I stay up-to-date with findings in molecular biology and advanced neuroimaging that may one day revolutionize psychiatry but that day is probably far in the future. Although I have strong opinions, informed by empirical evidence and clinical experience, about what currently works and what doesn’t, when it comes to theoretical orientation and treatment formulation, I follow scientific model agnosticism. That is to say, I do not confine myself to any one model or particular way of looking at things and I use what works, (which is usually multiple perspectives), with a given patient. Given how much there is yet to discover about the staggeringly complex workings of mind-brain, the last great frontier in science, I think this is the only honest posture to adopt.
Therefore, I use psychoanalytic thinking, CBT, DBT, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, metallization, attachment theory, epigenetic and biological models, where appropriate, as tools to inform my understanding and treatment of different patients and to meet them where they are. Most importantly, I focus on the patient as an equal and active partner in their treatment. I conceptualize psychiatric treatment as a collaboration involving a process of two people thinking and changing what either alone cannot think or change. Thus, I focus on an alliance that establishes an interaction of mutual involvement rather than mere observation or authoritarian hierarchy.
Overall, I have found medications can be, but are not always a first line choice for the individual. Psychotherapy seems to have gone from being the rule to being relegated to the backburner as drugs occupy an increasingly pivotal role in patient care. I endeavor to find a middle road of plain old therapy, in addition to biological treatment methods including medications, to help my patients find meaning in their lives and satisfaction in their relationships. I believe the answer to patients’ complex problems lies in a combination of these two models rather than an “either-or” approach.
In my thinking about patients, I follow the dictum: “all perception is co-creation.” We create the environment we perceive to suit our own dogmas, emotions, and aesthetics. Every nervous system perceives a different universe made up out of some common signals coming to all of us, and most defects of communication, and consequent behavioral and relational problems are caused by the fact that we think everyone is living in the same 'world' as us. When we find out they are not we think they're either 'crazy' or 'evil' or 'mad' or 'bad.'
We live in a world where we are all continually negotiating on behalf of our stories, yearning to be understood. When we do realize that each individual is looking through the point of view of their own subjectivity or “reality tunnel” it is much easier to understand where other people are coming from. Then, the ones who do not have the same beliefs, desires, wishes, and motivations as us do not seem ignorant, deliberately perverse, lying or hypnotized by some mad ideology. They just have a different perception than ours and every perception might tell us something interesting about our world, if we are willing to listen and be accepting. It is now a medical truism that one must deal not just with the disease but with the individual that has it and his whole 'world.' This position now known as:"The mentalizing stance" is the cornerstone of any healthy interaction between human beings. It is the starting point and orienting guideline of my approach in practice. Thus, I am committed to the idea that each individual is unique and deserves a distinctive treatment plan that maximizes the opportunity for a successful outcome. I find it a privilege to be let into the inner lives of my patient
We live in a world where we are all continually negotiating on behalf of our stories, yearning to be understood. When we do realize that each individual is looking through the point of view of their own subjectivity or “reality tunnel” it is much easier to understand where other people are coming from. Then, the ones who do not have the same beliefs, desires, wishes, and motivations as us do not seem ignorant, deliberately perverse, lying or hypnotized by some mad ideology. They just have a different perception than ours and every perception might tell us something interesting about our world, if we are willing to listen and be accepting. It is now a medical truism that one must deal not just with the disease but with the individual that has it and his whole 'world.' This position now known as:"The mentalizing stance" is the cornerstone of any healthy interaction between human beings. It is the starting point and orienting guideline of my approach in practice. Thus, I am committed to the idea that each individual is unique and deserves a distinctive treatment plan that maximizes the opportunity for a successful outcome. I find it a privilege to be let into the inner lives of my patient.
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