General Info

I practice full time medical psychiatry, psychopharmacology, and psychoneuroendocrinology. I am experienced doing consultation and have a primary psychopharmacology practice treating patients with simple as well as complicated psychiatric conditions, often in combination with medical problems. I have specialties in the treatment of menopause related symptoms from natural menopause, hysterectomy, or breast cancer treatment. I am considered an expert in the treatment of PMDD and mood disorders in pregnancy and post partum. "Dr. Leventhal Alexander is one of the best doctors and the best psychiatrist I have ever worked with. Her intellect is fierce and her heart is huge. She has taken such good care of me over the past five years and I don't know where I would be without her. As a good psychiatrist should, she has gotten me to a place where I rarely need to see her anymore, but when I e-mail or call her with a question, concern or need she always responds immediately. Just knowing she is a phone call away has been an incredible reassurance over the past 4+ years." DO, 5/2/11, El Cerrito, California "I came to Dr. Alexander through my psychotherapist; we were looking for someone who would treat me as a whole person and who would be willing to hear my story and to engage in dialogue with me about a variety of issues. I also was of course looking for someone highly competent in diagnosing psychiatric conditions and prescribing treatments. Dr. Alexander more than fulfilled my expectations. She is knowledgeable, intuitive, concerned, and caring, and she goes out of her way to explain diagnoses and treatments. She came up with the perfect medication to treat me and was very carefully attentive to the dose that worked best for me. She has particular expertise in women's health but was beyond qualified to help a male patient--me--with my own issues. I recommend her with utmost enthusiasm." John Q, 5/7/11, Berkeley, California