Psychiatric Care for Medically Complex Children in Brookline, MA
When a child is living with a serious medical or neurological condition, emotional and behavioral symptoms are often part of the picture. Anxiety, mood changes, sleep disruption, school difficulty, and distress around medical care are common, and they can be difficult to separate from the underlying illness or its treatment.
Dr. Annabel Kuhn specializes in providing psychiatric care to children and adolescents with complex medical and neurological conditions. Her fellowship at Boston Children's Hospital provided extensive experience caring for children with serious medical illnesses and highly complex, multidisciplinary needs.
Families navigating this kind of care are often coordinating multiple specialists at once. A consultation can clarify what is driving your child's symptoms and what psychiatric support would be most helpful alongside their existing medical team.
Boston Children's Hospital fellowship trained · Limited patient panel · Telehealth across Massachusetts
Meet Dr. Kuhn
Dr. Annabel Kuhn is a board-certified psychiatrist who completed her residency and fellowship at Harvard Medical School, including training at Boston Children's Hospital. She maintains a limited patient panel to ensure availability, responsiveness, and a consistently high level of care.
Learn More →Conditions We Work Alongside
Dr. Kuhn provides psychiatric care for children whose emotional and behavioral health intersects with an ongoing medical or neurological condition, including:
This list is not exhaustive. If your child's condition isn't listed here, please reach out. Dr. Kuhn is glad to discuss whether her practice is the right fit.
Dr. Kuhn's Approach to Medically Complex Care
Care begins with a comprehensive initial evaluation. Dr. Kuhn takes time to understand your child's medical history, current treatments, developmental history, and how symptoms present at home and at school. Because medications, disease processes, and psychiatric symptoms can influence one another, this history matters enormously in a medically complex child.
From there, she develops an individualized treatment plan, using evidence-based therapy and prescribing medication when clinically appropriate, with careful attention to interactions, side effects, and how any medication fits into your child's existing regimen.
Dr. Kuhn finds this work especially meaningful and collaborates closely with each child's medical specialists, therapists, schools, and other members of the treatment team to provide thoughtful, integrated psychiatric care. Her concierge model is particularly well suited to this population: a limited patient panel means direct access, responsive communication between appointments, and the time required to coordinate genuinely multidisciplinary care.
Frequently Asked Questions
What kinds of medical and neurological conditions does Dr. Kuhn work with?
Dr. Kuhn treats children with co-occurring conditions including, but not limited to, epilepsy and other neurological disorders (including functional neurological disorders), endocrine disorders, autoimmune and inflammatory illnesses, genetic conditions, gastrointestinal disorders, and eating disorders. She also treats related neuropsychiatric conditions such as PANS and catatonia.
Will Dr. Kuhn coordinate with my child's other doctors?
Yes. Collaboration is central to this work. With your consent, Dr. Kuhn communicates directly with your child's neurologist, endocrinologist, gastroenterologist, pediatrician, therapists, and school team so that psychiatric care is integrated with the rest of your child's treatment rather than managed in isolation.
My child's symptoms might be caused by their medical condition. Can you help sort that out?
That question is a large part of what this work involves. Emotional and behavioral symptoms in a medically complex child may stem from the underlying illness, from medications, from the stress of living with a chronic condition, or from a distinct psychiatric condition, and often from several of these at once. A thorough evaluation is aimed at understanding these contributions and clarifying what will actually help.
Does Dr. Kuhn prescribe medication?
Dr. Kuhn uses evidence-based therapy as a foundation and prescribes medication when it is clinically indicated. In medically complex children she pays particular attention to interactions with existing medications, side-effect profiles, and coordination with prescribing specialists. Treatment decisions are made collaboratively with families.
What should we expect at the first appointment?
The first appointment is a comprehensive initial evaluation. Dr. Kuhn will review your child's medical and psychiatric history, current medications, and treatment goals, and it is helpful to bring recent records from other specialists. Following the evaluation, she will craft an individualized treatment plan. Visit our Payment & Fees page for details on appointment types and pricing.
Is telehealth available, and what areas do you serve?
Yes. Telehealth appointments are available for patients throughout Massachusetts, which many families managing frequent medical appointments find easier to sustain. Dr. Kuhn also sees patients in person in Brookline and the Greater Boston area, including Cambridge, Somerville, Newton, and surrounding communities.
Our Location
Brookline, MA 02446
Same-day virtual appointments available throughout Massachusetts
Located on Beacon Street near Coolidge Corner.
Ready to Schedule a Consultation?
Dr. Kuhn is accepting new patients in Brookline and the Greater Boston area, including children with complex medical and neurological needs.
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