The genesis of Poise Psychiatry was during Dr. Welch's early training at the School of American Ballet in Lincoln Center. While developing her technical prowess in the ballet world, she learned that the same principles yield an effective approach to therapy and life at large. We can always lead with poise and grace, while relying on a strong foundation of core strengths. The coalescence of these elements is visible in the practice logo as well. 

Dr. Welch began to choreograph her trajectory with excellence in both the ballet and academic world. She was selected to train at the School of American Ballet and performed with the New York City Ballet. She graduated Salutatorian of her high school and studied Psychology and Pre-Med at Northwestern University while also serving as Vice President of her sorority. Dr. Welch was one of only two undergraduate students honored by the Northwestern University Guild for combined achievements in academic, artistic, philanthropic, and extracurricular pursuits. 

Graduating cum laude from Northwestern, Dr. Welch matriculated to SUNY Upstate Medical University. Having left the world of ballet for medicine, she consistently found import in furthering women’s academic and professional achievements, helping to orchestrate conferences publicizing and honoring the first woman to receive a medical degree (in 1849), and securing funding for the American Medical Women’s Association. She was also awarded multiple fellowships including studies in consult liaison and forensic psychiatry. Interested in using her experiences to usher in academic growth, she worked on a project looking into the effects of feedback on medical student evaluations of psychiatry resident teaching. 

Dr. Welch graduated with her Medical Degree in 2011. She was a psychiatry resident at the renowned Department of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, becoming Chief Resident as a result of her superlative administrative, clinical, and academic skill sets.  As Chief Resident, Dr. Welch was awarded a guest fellowship encompassing clinical work and women-centered psychiatric care at the Stanford Center for Neuroscience in Women's Health.  Her career as an attending psychiatrist rapidly developed from Medical Director of a new co-located care behavioral health model in a primary care clinic with approximately 140 internal medicine residents and 15,000 patient visits per year, where she developed a rotation for psychiatry residents. Additionally, Dr. Welch functioned as a psychiatric clinician within the Mood and Anxiety Research Program and was an Assistant Professor. She was subsequently promoted to Director of the Ambulatory Psychiatry Resident Clinic, overseeing the outpatient educational and clinical service delivery model for psychiatry residents. While at Mount Sinai, Dr. Welch was also Director of the Coping with Unique Experiences (CUE) Fifth Avenue Clinic to identify psychosis risk. She received the 2018 Teacher of the Year Award from the department of psychiatry as a culmination of her educational and service achievements.

Dr. Welch furthered her academic and professional development at the Montefiore Medical Center in the Department of Psychiatry as Associate Medical Director and later Medical Director of the Wakefield Adult Ambulatory Division. She was also an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry And Behavioral Sciences at the Albert Einstein College Of Medicine. Dr. Welch functioned as the co-lead of the evidence-based treatment track project within the department to facilitate optimal delivery of effective outpatient psychiatric services. While at Montefiore, Dr. Welch was on the committee that procured a $7M grant from Governor Kathy Hochul and the NYS Department of Health and Office of Mental Health to Address Gaps in NYC Mental and Behavioral Health Care. 

After moving to North Carolina with her family, Dr. Welch is endeavoring upon the next phase of her professional calling and looks forward to assisting clients with their mental health journeys. 

Artistic endeavors are portals into the human narrative and psyche. Dr. Welch's early days as a classical ballerina ingrained within her a deep reverence for the expression of lived experience through art in all forms. She has a particular niche interest in the complexities involved in creating and disseminating self-expression, and is a believer in the power of creativity as a form of catharsis and growth.