A practice built around staying close to home

Why We Are Here

Care that does not require a day of driving

For a long time, a family in the valley needing psychiatric care for a child had two choices: a long drive, or nothing.

Denver is four hours away in good weather. Grand Junction is closer, but still a day gone — a day off work, a day out of school, and a journey to repeat every time an appointment is due. Plenty of families simply did without, or stopped going after the first few visits.

Dr. Bushong is the only Board Certified Child, Adolescent & Adult Psychiatrist practicing within 30 miles of Aspen, Basalt or Glenwood Springs. Two offices, thirty minutes apart, mean that care can be a regular part of a family's week rather than an expedition.

How Care Is Delivered

One physician, the whole person, unhurried

This is a solo practice on purpose. You see the same doctor each time, and he knows your history without reading it back to you.

Care means treating the whole person rather than a symptom list: how you sleep, how you eat, what school or work is like, who is at home, what has already been tried. First appointments are long because that conversation takes time, and because nothing sensible gets decided in fifteen minutes.

Dr. Bushong offers psychotherapy and medication management — the careful use of prescribed medicine, reviewed with you over time. Many people have both. Some have neither for long. What happens next is a decision you make together, in plain language, with the reasoning explained.

Our Values

What the practice holds to

Six commitments, each one sentence long, because a value that needs a paragraph is not a value.

Beyond The Office

Part of the valley, not visiting it

The practice is local in the ordinary sense: this is where Dr. Bushong lives and works.

Patients come from Aspen, Snowmass Village, Carbondale, Glenwood Springs, Basalt and El Jebel, and travel in from Vail, Avon and Grand Junction.

It also means the practice knows what a season here does to a schedule. Appointments are booked around work, school and the weather, at whichever office is easier to reach.