Dr. Russell Carr
Medical Director
In 2019, Dr. Russell Carr transitioned to practice at Kentlands Psychotherapy after 20 years of active-duty service in the Navy. Board-certified in Adult Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN), Dr. Carr has over 25 years of experience. Moreover, he completed training in Adult Psychoanalysis at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (ICP&P) and has served as a teaching and supervising analyst on its faculty. Dr. Carr has extensive experience in patient care and leadership roles in psychiatry. His military experiences include two deployments to care for service members in combat zones, chairing the Psychiatry Department at Walter Reed from 2013 to 2016, leading a military assist mission in 2014 to train Ugandan military providers on treating severe PTSD, and serving as the psychiatry consultant for White House staff.
Professional Accomplishments
In 2013, he was selected as the only mental health care provider to testify before the Military Personnel Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee, alongside all three military Surgeons General, on the state of mental health care in the Department of Defense. Over the past twenty years, his work with patients has covered the whole gamut of psychiatric disorders and treatment settings. Still, he considers his areas of expertise to be trauma, anxiety, depression, and problems that arise for executives and their family members. He has published numerous peer-reviewed papers and spoken both nationally and internationally on suicide and the treatment of PTSD. Due to his numerous contributions to the field, the American Psychiatric Association named him a Distinguished Fellow in 2018. Intersubjectivity pervades his clinical and academic work. Dr. Carr believes that nothing is more powerful than being understood by another human being.
Since 2023, Dr. Carr has volunteered with the International Institute for Trauma Studies (IITS) to train Ukrainian therapists in treating combat-related PTSD. For the past three years, he has been the lead instructor for a semester-long course via Zoom through IITS and the Graduate Psychology Program at the State Pedagogical University in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. The course is always the program’s most popular. This year, it had nearly 1,000 participants, including students and practicing therapists throughout Ukraine. Doctors Without Borders enrolled some of its psychiatrists in the course as well.
Dr. Russell Carr no longer accepts new clients for psychoanalysis and medication management. The singular exception to this is middle schoolers who are currently therapy clients of the practice.
If you are looking for adjunctive or standalone medication management/psychopharmacology, we recommend asking about Dr. Adrian Kress.
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