Our Maryland Psychiatric Staff

Bruce A. Kehr, M.D.

Bruce A. Kehr has served as Founder and President of Potomac Psychiatry since 1981.

Dr. Kehr is passionate about helping patients with anxiety, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, life adjustment issues, and bipolar disorder. He treats adolescents, adults, and the elderly in psychotherapy, and with medication management when needed. Through his collective expertise and experience in business and psychiatry, he specializes in helping top business executives lead more balanced, symptom-free lives. He is also the author of Dr. Bruce’s Couch: Life Lessons at Potomac Psychiatry 

Dr. Kehr serves on the Board of the Institute on Aging of the University of Pennsylvania, where he served as Chairman from 2006 to 2009, and was selected as one of the “100 Most Inspiring and Influential Leaders in the Life Sciences Industry,” by the readers and editors of PharmaVOICE in 2007. He was included in “Guide to America’s Top Psychiatrists,” 2008 Edition, published by the Consumers’ Research Council of America.

Dr. Kehr received training in psychotherapy at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute, where he also completed his training psychoanalysis. A forensic consultant in neuropsychiatry and traumatic brain injury, Dr. Kehr is also the inventor of sixteen issued patents and five pending patents in the United States, Europe, Japan, and Canada, as well as issued and pending trademarks and service marks, in the field of medication adherence software, hardware and communications technologies.

Dr. Kehr is also a Senior Scholar, Department of Health Policy, at Jefferson Medical College. He has frequently lectured on the interface between executive coaching and psychiatry; the field of medication non-adherence, where he is recognized as an expert; and has lectured on neuropsychiatry aspects of traumatic brain injury. He received his BA from the University of Pennsylvania, followed by an MD from the Georgetown University School of Medicine. He is Board Certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and has been in practice since 1978.

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Walker Lyerly, IV, M.D.

Walker Lyerly is a child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist who provides medication management and individual therapy to children, adolescents, and adults. He provides significant coordination of care with parents, pediatricians, and school counselors to optimize a child or adolescent’s treatment outcomes. Dr. Lyerly also provides medication management and psychotherapy services to adults.

As a gifted psychopharmacologist and psychotherapist, Dr. Lyerly blends these skills to treat patients ranging from those with simple adjustment problems to highly complex and challenging patients including those with rapid cycling bipolar disorder.

He received his undergraduate degree from Davidson College, where he graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, and his medical degree from Duke University Medical School. Dr. Lyerly is Board certified in Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychiatry, and has been in practice since1992.

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Barbara E. Kehr, LCSW

Barbara E. Kehr is a psychotherapist who treats adults ranging in age from college students to senior citizens. She specializes in therapy with individuals and couples facing the challenges of infertility, and women suffering from post-partum depression. In addition Barbara treats mothers and daughters wishing to improve their relationships, and individuals and couples in marital crisis. She also treats people suffering from depression, anxiety, grief reactions, and job loss.

While specializing in the psychotherapy of loss, which includes death of a loved one, miscarriage, end of a close friendship, separation and divorce, and “empty nest syndrome;” Barbara also treats individuals faced with the challenge of becoming new parents, and balancing the demands of career and family life.

She received her undergraduate degree from Case Western Reserve University and graduate degree from Simmons School of Social Work, and has been in practice as a licensed clinical social worker since 1976.

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Liz Davenport Pollock, Ph.D., MS, LGMFT, ACE-PT

Liz Davenport Pollock is a Marriage, Family, and Individual Therapist specializing in therapy with children, adolescents, families and couples. She provides individual, family, couples, and group therapy on issues surrounding emotion management, interpersonal relationships, communication, parenting skills, behavior problems, self-esteem, ADHD, and general family functioning. Additionally, she is passionate about helping individuals and families who struggle with body weight issues, weight loss and management, obesity prevention, and overall healthy living.

Furthermore, Liz has a special interest in sports psychology. She is an athlete and certified personal trainer with the American Council on Exercise and has spent the last fifteen years in the fitness and performance arena. As a native Washingtonian, Liz was one of the top athletes in the Washington Metropolitan area as an adolescent, only to go on and become an NCAA Division I athlete. Liz played volleyball for Rice University on a full athletic scholarship, and currently holds top-ten records in all-time Rice history.

As a warm, enthusiastic and caring therapist, she brings fresh, hopeful, soothing and empowering perspectives to any therapeutic issue, helping her clients create and maintain positive, fulfilling lives. She is also trained as an adventure therapist and has used experiential activities to foster growth and to accomplish therapeutic goals.

Liz received her B.A. from Rice University, her M.S. in Marriage and Family Therapy from the University of Maryland and a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland. She also has served as adjunct faculty at Trinity University, Marymount University and Virginia Tech. Prior to graduate school, she served in the West Wing of the White House, and is familiar with the professional pressures inherent in Washington’s public arena.

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