ABOUT DR. Unverferth

Dr. Katie is a psychiatrist serving adults throughout Los Angeles from her private practice in Santa Monica. She is an expert in Reproductive Psychiatry and Women’s Mental Health and treats conditions such as premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), postpartum depression, postpartum anxiety, and postpartum psychosis. She has completed specialized training in Reproductive Psychiatry and is the Director of the UCLA Women’s Life Center and Medical Director of the UCLA Perinatal Partial Hospitalization Program.

Dr. Katie has also completed specialized training in Mood and Anxiety Disorders though the Mood Disorders Fellowship at UCLA. She treats mental health conditions such as generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, major depressive disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, bipolar disorder, insomnia, and ADHD.

Dr. Katie is a graduate of Duke University where she majored in Chemistry with a Mathematics concentration. She completed research at the Duke Clinical Research Institute with the National Children’s Study. She attended medical school at Georgetown University. While there, she was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society and received the Francis L. Clark, Jr. Award for Excellence in Psychiatry.

After graduating from medical school, she went on to complete her Psychiatry Residency at the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. While there, she served as the Chief Resident in Reproductive Psychiatry and was elected to the local council of the American Psychiatric Association. She has previously served on the council of the Southern California Psychiatric Association and was given the President’s Award for service on that board.

Publications:
Erin Murphy-Barzilay, Katherine Unverferth and Laura Obler. “Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder” in APA Textbook of Women’s Reproductive Mental Health. American Psychiatric Association. Expected publication December 2021.

Erin Murphy Barzilay and Katherine Unverferth. Premenstrual Mood Symptoms. National Curriculum for Reproductive Psychiatry. http://ncrptraining.org/learning-modules/

Jason Chen, Katherine Unverferth and Erick Cheung. Delayed-onset seizure in a mild quetiapine overdose: report of a case and review of the literature. Case Reports in Psychiatry., Vol 2018.

Michael Mariorenzi, Amy Matson and Katherine Unverferth, “Constrictive Pericarditis” in Learning Cardiac Auscultation: From Essentials to Expert Clinical Interpretation. Allen Taylor, M.D., Ed. New York: Springer Science, 2015. 

Priscilla Dass-Brailsford Ed.D., Rebecca Tomley Psy.D., Nicholas Talisman and Katherine Unverferth. Understanding Children’s Reactions to the Haitian Earthquake. Traumatology, Vol. 21(1), Mar 2015, 14-21.