Dr. Karen M Brooks MD
Adolescent Psychiatrist | Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
8140 N Mo Pac Expy Building One Suite 1 Austin TX, 78759About
Dr. Karen Brooks practices Child & Adolescent Psychiatry in Austin, TX. Dr. Brooks evaluates patients throughout childhood and adolescence using many different procedures, in order to determine what treatments must be carried out in order to properly assess their symptoms. Child & Adolescent Psychiatrists are trained and certified to administer psychotherapy, medication, and many other means of treatment. Dr. Brooks seeks to improve each patients quality of life.
Education and Training
Tx Tech Univ Hlth Sci Ctr Sch of Med, Lubbock Tx 1998
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN- Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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