Practicing in New Orleans, Arwen Podesta, MD is a board-certified adult psychiatrist with sub-specializations in addiction medicine, forensic psychiatry, and integrative medicine. She opened Podesta Psychiatry LLC in 2012, with a team of excellent providers- a multidisciplinary collaborative model with nutrition, psychotherapy, acupuncture and psychiatry.
Dr. Podesta’s primary focus is access to integrative mental health and addiction treatment, with a whole health focus, for all. Her current activities include teaching (Tulane and LSU), consulting in Re-entry court, board member of the Alliance for Benzodiazepine Best Practices (www.benzoreform.org), and recently re-releasing her book, HOOKED, for an updated edition. She is the immediate past president of the Louisiana chapter of the American society for addiction medicine (ASAM) and currently serves in national committees. She consults to the Louisiana governor’s HOPE committee, and often advises for the city and state regarding addiction, best practices and more. She is a distinguished fellow of both the American Psychiatric Association and also the American Society of Addiction Medicine. Dr. Podesta regularly travels to teach and speak on the topics of Addiction Medicine and Integrative Psychiatry.
