Our Staff

Jason Dean, MD, Founder

Child and Adult Psychiatrist

Dr. Dean is the founder of the Center for Developmental Psychiatry. He is a child and adult psychiatrist who specializes in the integration of psychodynamic psychotherapy and medication management. He strives to provide psychotherapy and parent guidance to all patients when appropriate. Dr. Dean received his undergraduate education at the University of Pennsylvania before receiving his medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He then completed his adult psychiatry residency at Harvard University and his child psychiatry fellowship at the Yale Child Study Center, where he was chief fellow. Dr. Dean remains on the community faculty of the Yale School of Medicine as a clinical instructor in child and adolescent psychiatry.

Divya Patel, MD

Child and Adolescent and Adult Psychiatrist

Dr. Patel was born and raised in northern NJ, where she completed her undergraduate studies at Rutgers University, continuing on to Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She completed her adult psychiatry residency at Temple University, finishing her training with her child psychiatry fellowship at Mt. Sinai.

Dr. Patel treats most conditions, offering psychiatric evaluations, medication management, psychotherapy, and parent guidance. She also has experience with group therapy, working with teenagers with anxiety and social skills challenges. Dr. Patel treats children, adolescents, and adults, with expertise in working with patients with anxiety, depression, ADHD, autism spectrum disorder, bipolar disorder, OCD, and behavioral issues. 

In-line with our practice values, Dr. Patel takes a holistic view of her patients, attempting to understand the underlying social-emotional underpinnings of their symptoms and to treat the entire person, whether providing medication alone or a combination of psychotherapy with medication.