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Susan Bender, School Psychology Resident
We now offer child and adult psychiatry services.
PSYCHIATRY
SERVICES
MEET
YASMIN JILLA
Yasmin Jilla, MD
Board Certified Psychiatrist
​Dr. Jilla is a physician board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in Adult, Child, and Adolescent Psychiatry. She provides psychiatric evaluations, consultations, and medication management services for children, adolescents, and young adults. She follows a conservative, evidence-based approach to prescribing psychotropic medications and promotes holistic and collaborative mental health treatment. She believes in providing compassionate care that is individualized, family driven, and youth guided. She aspires to maintain a positive, strength-based, and solutions-oriented approach to mental health care with multi-systems involvement.
Dr. Jilla is a Virginia native. She attended college and medical school at the University of Virginia. She attended the Medical University of South Carolina for Adult Psychiatry Residency and completed a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at Children’s National Medical Center, George Washington University, in 2008 where she served as Chief Fellow. After completing fellowship, Dr. Jilla became an Assistant Professor at Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, and was the lead psychiatrist to the Young Adult Services team at the West Haven Mental Health Center. In 2010, she returned to Virginia and joined the faculty at Georgetown University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, as an Assistant Professor. She focused on outpatient psychiatric care and community mental health services with the Georgetown Pediatric Mobile Clinic as well as provided extensive teaching and supervision to medical students, residents, and child psychiatry fellows. Dr. Jilla was co-director of the Patient-Physician Communication Course for medical students at Georgetown University. She also authored a book chapter on externalizing disorders and adolescent addiction. Dr. Jilla remains part of the Voluntary Faculty at Georgetown University.
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In 2015, Dr. Jilla joined Array Behavioral Care with the mission to expand access to behavioral care through innovative applications of technology with a focus on providing high quality community mental health services to underserved and rural communities. She also provides quality improvement in healthcare delivery support for mental health services at Array.
During her free time, Dr. Jilla enjoys spending time with friends and family, travelling, reading, and running.
Clinical areas of interest:
Depression
Anxiety
ADHD in children/adolescents
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Grief
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*Accepting current THLH patients only.
Susan Bender, School Psychology Resident
MEET
SHANNON SABANOSH
Shannon Sabanosh, PMHNPBC, FNP-C
Board Certified Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
Shannon is a dual board certified psychiatric and family nurse practitioner with over a decade of experience in healthcare. She received her Bachelor of Science in nursing from George Mason University and began her career working as a registered nurse (RN) in the emergency department. She spent much of her career as an RN working in a busy level one trauma center as a staff nurse, charge nurse, preceptor, trauma nurse, and unit supervisor before deciding to pursue advanced clinical education. She earned her Master of Science in Nursing with a focus on Family Practice. Upon becoming licensed as a Family Nurse Practitioner, Shannon continued to work in emergency departments managing the care of patients with medical and psychiatric emergencies in the role of the primary provider.
During the pandemic she witnessed firsthand the need for improved preventative and continued psychiatric services and management as patients were boarded in emergency departments for days at a time waiting for an inpatient bed. Patients presenting to the Emergency Department with psychiatric complaints were often in crisis, requiring stabilization and inpatient hospitalization. Shannon recognized there was an opportunity and a need to improve patient’s quality of life and sought to treat patients before the crisis state developed. She decided to go back to school to become a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP). She earned a graduate certificate in as a PMHNP from the University of Cincinnati and became board certified.
Shannon is uniquely qualified with a background in the medical management as well as psychiatric care. She uses evidence-based approaches with regard to medication administration. She likes to take a detailed history and rule out any organic causes for symptoms before prescribing medication. She believes that a holistic approach provides highest quality of care and quality of life. While every patient is different, in addition to prescribing medication Shannon believes the optimal treatment may include exercise, healthy sleep, a balanced diet, meditation, therapy, or other unique aspects specific to each patient.
Outside of work, Shannon enjoys spending time with her husband and two daughters in Northern Virginia. She enjoys staying active with exercise, going to the beach, baking and reading.
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* Accepting new patients ages 12+ in VA, DC and MD.