Most psychiatric clinics in America run on the same model: a 15-minute med check, a prescription, and the next patient. Pondworks was founded in 2004 by Dr. Bernard Kim — a Dartmouth-trained psychiatrist and Fellow of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute — to build something different.

Our team of Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants trains year-round under Dr. Kim’s direct, on-site supervision — not the absentee model that has become standard in corporate psychiatric practice. Across individual sessions, group sessions, and our bi-weekly Clinical Inquiry meetings, the practice provides Advanced Practice Providers more than 500 hours of clinical education annually. The result is a practice where every APP treats medication and relational understanding as two halves of the same clinical conversation.