I'm Dr. Anita Clayton. I'm in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, and I also work closely with the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 

My area of expertise is women's mental health, and that would include areas like reproductive related mood and anxiety disorders in women. Those are areas people don't talk about, so when people get to me they basically are given permission to talk about it. That's a big relief for people. It means that we can do a lot of education.

I think UVA has a broad spectrum of care and it has excellence in care. On the inpatient team it's very multidisciplinary. We have psychiatrists and psychiatrists in training, we have psychologists who might do testing, and we have nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, physical therapists. One of the other areas where we have expertise, where there are even fewer providers, is child psychiatry and we have a very strong program in that. 

I think what's really important to patients is to take that step, to go forward and see a therapist, see a psychologist, see a psychiatrist, whoever you need to see to try to help with the problem that you're experiencing now. Once you start to talk about it, other people chime in and say, "Yes, I've had that" or they're supportive in other ways.