Dr. Barbara Rickler
After completing my graduate studies in Art History, I realized my true passion lay in medicine, and I applied to medical school. Upon graduating, I began a Residency in Pediatrics at the Yale-New Haven Hospital but decided my greatest interests were in child development, personality, family process, and the burgeoning area of Neuroscience. I switched to the General Psychiatry Residency Program at the Yale University School of Medicine and ultimately completed a two year Child and Adolescent Fellowship at the Yale University Child Study Center in 1986.
I have always been interested in Child Psychiatry in the public sector and worked as the Medical Director of the Mid-Fairfield Child Guidance Clinic from 1986 to 1999 and then served as the Senior Psychiatric Consultant until 2007. I have maintained a private practice since 1986. During my professional career, I have spent, and continue to spend, a significant portion of my time doing consultations to schools. These consultations often involve specific cases, school staff case conferences, or staff professional development workshops. I see individuals with Mood Disorders, Psychotic Disorders, Anxiety, Autistic Spectrum and other Developmental Disorders, ADD/ADHD, Behavior Disorders, and Family Crises.
I have an adult son and daughter, both of whom live in Boston and are involved in health care. My husband of 37 years, Dr. Michael Lustick, also a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, and I are regular sponsors of NPR-WSHU and supporters of the Children’s Defense Fund, Environmental Defense Fund, and Amnesty International, amongst others. In my free time, I have maintained my involvement in art through quilting. I am in the process of starting Peace by Piece, a non-profit that creates commissioned quilts with proceeds going to Doctors Without Borders. Travel continues to inspire my work as a physician and artist.
I have always been interested in Child Psychiatry in the public sector and worked as the Medical Director of the Mid-Fairfield Child Guidance Clinic from 1986 to 1999 and then served as the Senior Psychiatric Consultant until 2007. I have maintained a private practice since 1986. During my professional career, I have spent, and continue to spend, a significant portion of my time doing consultations to schools. These consultations often involve specific cases, school staff case conferences, or staff professional development workshops. I see individuals with Mood Disorders, Psychotic Disorders, Anxiety, Autistic Spectrum and other Developmental Disorders, ADD/ADHD, Behavior Disorders, and Family Crises.
I have an adult son and daughter, both of whom live in Boston and are involved in health care. My husband of 37 years, Dr. Michael Lustick, also a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, and I are regular sponsors of NPR-WSHU and supporters of the Children’s Defense Fund, Environmental Defense Fund, and Amnesty International, amongst others. In my free time, I have maintained my involvement in art through quilting. I am in the process of starting Peace by Piece, a non-profit that creates commissioned quilts with proceeds going to Doctors Without Borders. Travel continues to inspire my work as a physician and artist.
Education
Binghamton University
BA Art History Binghamton University (& Institute of Fine Arts – NYU) MA Art History Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine MD Yale-New Haven Hospital – Department of Pediatrics Internship Yale University School of Medicine Psychiatry Residency Yale Child Study Center Child & Adolescent Fellowship |
Credentials
Licensure & Board Certifications
Connecticut State Medical License: 1981–2017 American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology: Psychiatry (1987) American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology: Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (1991) Academic Appointments Clinical Instructor at Yale Child Study Center – Community Faculty Memberships American Psychiatric Association American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Connecticut Council of Child & Adolescent Psychiatrists |