Chris Winfrey, MD, is a psychiatrist and the founder of New Image Wellness, an integrative neuropsychiatric practice devoted to understanding the biological, psychological, relational, and environmental factors that influence mental health.

Dr. Winfrey works with children and adults whose symptoms often do not fit neatly within a single diagnosis or medical specialty. Many of his patients have persistent mood, cognitive, behavioral, or neurological symptoms despite previous treatment. His clinical interests include difficult-to-treat depression and anxiety, complex trauma, cognitive impairment, traumatic brain injury, PANS/PANDAS, autism-related neuropsychiatric concerns, chronic fatigue, tick-borne illness, and neuropsychiatric symptoms associated with mold and other environmental exposures.

His approach combines conventional psychiatric evaluation and treatment with psychoneuroimmunology, metabolic and mitochondrial psychiatry, nutrient psychiatry, functional and environmental medicine, psychoanalytically informed therapy, and neuromodulation. Depending on the needs of the patient, treatment may include medication management, psychotherapy, laboratory assessment, nutritional and metabolic interventions, transcranial magnetic stimulation, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, or other approaches intended to support brain and nervous-system function.

Dr. Winfrey’s work is guided by a framework he calls “The Biology of Becoming.” This framework examines how infection, inflammation, environmental exposures, trauma, disrupted relationships, and impaired brain function can interfere with a person’s ability to develop, exercise agency, sustain relationships, imagine a future, and participate fully in life.

He believes that successful treatment should accomplish more than reducing symptoms or improving laboratory results. Its larger purpose is to help restore the capacities a person needs to love, work, create, relate, make meaningful choices, and continue becoming who they are capable of being.

His additional interests include cultural psychiatry, the relationship between faith and mental health, and the ways personal meaning and spiritual life interact with biological health. He has presented on these subjects at professional conferences and has contributed to conversations seeking to bridge psychiatry, medicine, culture, and faith.

Dr. Winfrey also provides forensic neuropsychiatric evaluation and consultation in selected legal matters, assisting attorneys and courts in understanding the psychiatric and neurological consequences of illness and injury.