Dr. Katie Richards, MD
Dr. Richards graduated from Priztker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago in 2014. In 2019, she completed her residency at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center to become triple boarded in General Pediatric Medicine, Adult Psychiatry and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. She worked in a hospital setting for a few years before starting this clinic in 2022; the goal was always for her to return and serve the patients in her hometown of Oswego.
After spending time working on an inpatient unit where she was only able to work with patients on a short-term basis, she is happy to be working in her own clinic, building long-term relationships with her patients and delivering more personalized care. Although child & adolescent work is her specialty, she does enjoy seeing patients across the lifespan and feels comfortable treating depression, anxiety, ADHD, bipolar disorder, psychosis and more in both adults and children. She also likes to put her general pediatric knowledge to use in her patients where the biologic and psychiatric symptoms overlap.
She enjoys using some therapeutic techniques in session, or at least explaining what kind of therapy interventions they might expect from their outside therapist; she also does see a handful of patients for individual psychotherapy as well. She wishes she could do therapy with every patient because of how much she enjoys it, but her medication management skills are more needed because of the nationwide shortage of child psychiatrists. In her free time, Dr. Richards likes reading, painting, kickboxing, puzzles, going to concerts and relaxing with family and friends.
