Background
Dr. Sarah Juul is a Board-Certified psychiatrist (American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology), having earned her MD degree from Stanford University School of Medicine in 2008. She trained in the Adult Psychiatry residency program at Emory University School of Medicine, where she served as a Chief Resident at Grady Memorial Hospital in her last year. She was recognized as an “Outstanding Resident” by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) in 2010 for her potential to contribute to the field of psychiatry.
Beginning in 2012, she was a full-time faculty member (Assistant Professor) at Emory University in the Women’s Mental Health Program, a leading perinatal psychiatry service. Besides teaching residents and medical students, she participated in research related to mother-infant interaction and psychopharmacology in pregnancy and maintained a clinical practice focusing on psychotherapy in the peripartum. In 2015, she left academia to focus on clinical work and established her private practice in Decatur, Georgia. She continues to be an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Emory and teaches at Emory on a range of topics, including History of Psychiatry and Global Mental Health.
Dr. Juul brings a wide range of experience and knowledge to her clinical practice. As a physician, she appreciates the importance of biology in psychiatric and physical illnesses and the connection between mind and body. Before attending medical school, she earned a Masters degree in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and has worked around the world on social determinants of health and domestically with refugees and asylum-seekers. Her background in public health, working at the intersection of social, political, and interpersonal violence in many different cultural settings, has fostered an understanding of how people cope with and heal from trauma. Through her work with mothers and babies struggling with perinatal conditions, she is attentive to the importance of attachment relationships a template for developing a sense of self and ways of being with others. To further develop her skills in psychoanalytic work, she pursued advanced training in Adult Clinical Psychoanalysis at the Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute from 2014-2019.