Carolina Wellness Psychiatry, PLLC

Elizabeth Bullard, MD, is the founder and medical director of Carolina Wellness Psychiatry, PLLC in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She specializes in treating college students to older adults with a focus on mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and cognitive disorders. Prior to opening Carolina Wellness Psychiatry, Dr. Bullard served as medical director of two adult psychiatric inpatient units at the University of North Carolina Hospital System. She was the first medical director of the acclaimed UNC Perinatal Psychiatry Inpatient program. Dr. Bullard served as chief resident during her psychiatry residency at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center after completing medical school at Texas Tech School of Medicine. Dr. Bullard bases her treatment philosophy on a whole-person approach, considering both biological and psychological factors to promote overall wellness. She has specialized expertise in women’s mental health and perinatal psychiatry, treating mood disorders during adolescence, pre-conception planning and pregnancy, and through menopause.

Allison Foroobar, MD, is a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist at Carolina Wellness Psychiatry, PLLC, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She provides comprehensive care for school-aged children, adolescents, and adults, which includes partnering with her patients’ families, teachers, and other specialists to promote overall wellness and building foundations for a successful life. Dr. Foroobar has specialty training in treating the behavioral health needs of children, adolescents, and adults who suffer from co-occurring medical disorders such as epilepsy, diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease, and congenital heart syndromes. She commonly treats patients with depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), bipolar disorder, eating disorders, trauma, and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Sarah Stork Tatko is a physician assistant who specializes in psychiatry and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy. Sarah diagnoses and treats teens and adults with ADD/ADHD, generalized anxiety disorder, and depression. Sarah also provides medical management and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy to adults with treatment-resistant depression, PTSD, OCD, and/or eating disorders. Sarah graduated with her Master's in Physician Assistant Studies from Marywood University and is currently a doctoral candidate in psychiatry at Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions. She is completing her MAPS and psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy certification with the Integrated Psychiatry Institute. Sarah enjoys helping patients navigate mental health challenges brought on by illness, stress, anxiety, and burnout through multiple treatment modalities. She takes a gentle, non-judgmental approach to her work using metaphor, humor, kindness, and compassion.

Sarah Gilbert, PhD, is a psychologist who specializes in individual and couples therapy. Her approach is active, collaborative and compassionate, and she enjoys working with adults of all ages and backgrounds. She strives to help individuals learn more about themselves and their pasts, while offering practical and integrated interventions to help them manage current challenges. Dr. Gilbert has extensive experience helping individuals with significant life changes, depression, health problems, anxiety, impulsivity, relationship and interpersonal difficulties, and adjustment. Additionally, she has specialized training in helping couples improve levels of intimacy and communication skills, navigate difficult relationship transitions, heal after an affair or trauma, and manage every day relationship stress.