Dr. Erin Belfort 

I grew up in central Maine and was eager to return to my home state after medical training. I attended Middlebury College and the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine. After medical school, I did a four-year residency in general psychiatry at the Harvard Longwood Residency Training Program in the Harvard Medical School system. I worked at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess, Faulkner Hospital and Massachusetts Mental Health Center. During my residency training, I spent a year as a psychiatrist at MIT Student Health and enjoyed working with young adults as they transitioned to college. I then completed a two-year fellowship in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at Cambridge Health Alliance/Harvard Medical School.  I am trained in psychopharmacology and in a variety of psychotherapy modalities including psychodynamic psychotherapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and Family Therapy.

After ten years of medical training, I returned home and have had various roles since that time. I am the Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Program Director at Maine Medical Center and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine. For more than a decade, I worked with a multi-disciplinary Gender Clinic team, which provides gender-affirming care to children, adolescents, young adults and their families.

My academic interests include the impacts of social media on youth, gender-affirming care, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and family therapy teaching. I completed a yearlong intensive family therapy training program at Therapy Training Boston in 2013 and have been teaching and practicing family therapy since. I am actively involved in the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) on the Consumer Issues Committee and as co-chair of the Media Committee. I am a distinguished fellow of AACAP, an honor that recognizes child psychiatrists who have made significant contributions to the field. I am also a member of the Group for Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP), a prominent psychiatry 'think tank'.