Dr. Cliff Newman

A highly trained psychiatrist, Dr. Ira Newman helps patients manage a variety of personality, anxiety, and mood disorders by utilizing a combination of medicinal treatment and psychotherapy. At his practice in Northern Virginia, Fairfax Psychiatry of Centreville, Dr. Newman works exclusively with adult patients and possesses experience helping those with bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression, anxiety, and other conditions. Recognizing that each patient requires different levels of care, Dr. Ira Newman employs an eclectic approach, providing strong support to some patients and employing a psychodynamic approach with others. In addition to treating patients at his practice, Dr. Newman has served on the staff at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Virginia, for more than a decade. To stay current with developments in his field, Dr. Ira Newman belongs to the Washington Psychiatric Society and the American Psychiatric Association. He has played an active role in Virginia’s medical community since the mid-1990s, when he served his four-year residency in psychiatry at the University of Virginia. During this time, Dr. Ira Newman held memberships with the Mental Health Association of Southwest Virginia and the Psychiatric Society of Virginia. Leveraging his extensive training, he obtained a position as a Staff Psychiatrist at Culpeper Regional Hospital and the Catawba Hospital and also worked at two community mental health clinics. Dr. Ira Newman holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Rochester and a Doctor of Medicine from the Sackler School of Medicine at Tel Aviv University in Israel. After completing his residency at the University of Virginia, Dr. Newman spent one year studying at Georgetown University. He focused his studies on the field of consultation-liaison psychiatry, which emphasizes the collaboration between psychiatrists and other medical professionals to provide treatment to patients in clinical settings.