Dr. Geoffrey Phillips is a board-certified psychiatrist (ABPN). His educational background includes undergraduate study in English and French literature, and he worked as an editor for a medical group for seven years before studying medicine. He completed his medical degree and psychiatry residency at the University of California, Irvine. During his year as Chief Resident, he attended cognitive therapy training at the Beck Institute in Philadelphia, and he remains a member of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy.
For more than a decade, Dr. Phillips maintained a private practice in Orange County combining psychiatric medication management with cognitive therapy and has taught cognitive therapy skills to psychiatry residents in training at UC Irvine and UC Riverside. He has been an inpatient psychiatry attending physician for nearly two decades at local hospitals including St Joseph Hospital in Orange, Anaheim Global, Chapman Hospital, Royale Health in Santa Ana and the Long Beach VA. He also specialized in addiction medicine and was part of the inaugural group to be certified by the American Board of Addiction Medicine (ABAM) in 2009. He has served as director of inpatient and outpatient addiction programs in southern California and has been director of inpatient psychiatry programs, including most recently, the geropsychiatry inpatient program at the Long Beach VA where he led a multidisciplinary team taking care of Veterans. In 2020, Dr. Phillips joined the team at AMFM exclusively. He understands that the clients at AMFM come to the program from various settings and with diverse goals in mind, and he is honored to lead a dedicated and talented team of therapists/clinicians providing specialized care to meet those goals.
