Yarmouth, Maine
Medication Management in Yarmouth
Yarmouth's village scale is its charm and its barrier: everyone knows everyone, which makes a psychiatric waiting room feel like a public announcement, and the older adults who make up much of the town were raised to handle low moods with chores and silence. Add Maine's waitlists, and treatable depression gets renamed aging. Psychiatric medication deserves an owner, not an autopilot. shrinkMD provides board certified medication management to Yarmouth by secure video, with follow up that happens on schedule and decisions driven by measured results.
Medically reviewed by Shariq Refai, MD, MBA, FAPA, board certified psychiatrist · Last reviewed September 23, 2026 · Updated October 4, 2026 · Editorial policy
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Why shrinkMD
Care built around Yarmouth
Video care suits Yarmouth precisely: unhurried visits from your own living room, no waiting room, no announcement, with technology kept simple, tap a link, and we help by phone if needed.
Late life depression, health related anxiety, and grief that will not lift are core clinical territory for us, not afterthoughts, and family joins visits exactly when you want them. No insurance billing keeps it all private.
What's included
Stewardship, visit by visit
Good prescribing is a feedback loop. At each visit your clinician reviews your validated symptom scores, your side effects, and your sleep, then adjusts a single variable so cause and effect stay readable. While starting or changing medication that loop runs every two to four weeks; once you're doing well it relaxes to every one to three months.
Your full trial history, names, doses, durations, responses, lives in your chart from day one, so failed experiments never get repeated. Prescriptions go electronically to your pharmacy, monitoring labs are arranged through your local clinic when a medication requires them, and your primary care doctor stays in the loop with your permission. No controlled substances, stated plainly before you ever book.
Mental health shortage data
Is Yarmouth a mental health shortage area?
Cumberland County outlined; dot marks Yarmouth. Light teal: other designated counties.
Neither Yarmouth nor the rest of Cumberland County has a current mental health shortage designation. 12 of Maine's 16 counties do, mostly in the north, west, and Down East.
Even outside designated areas, new-patient waits for psychiatry can run long. Our guide to choosing the right kind of mental health professional can help you find the fastest route to care.
See Cumberland County on the Maine shortage map · All Maine designations
Source: HRSA mental health shortage designations, checked September 28, 2026; 2020 Census. Shrinktionary and shrinkMD are part of The Shrink Network, founded by Shariq Refai, MD.
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Care and next steps in Yarmouth
Frequently asked questions
Good questions, clear answers
I am not comfortable with computers. Can I still do this?
Yes. One tap on a link in a text, and our team walks you through the first time by phone. Most patients are surprised how simple it is.
Can my daughter join my appointments?
Whenever you wish. Family eyes are clinically valuable, and the invitation is always yours to give.
Do you prescribe stimulants or benzodiazepines?
No, anywhere. We're upfront about it before you book, and skilled with the non controlled options the evidence supports.
How do labs work with a telehealth practice?
We coordinate orders through your local clinic or lab, lithium levels, metabolic panels, thyroid checks, and review results together. Telehealth changes the visit, not the monitoring standard.
Can you take over prescriptions from my previous provider?
Usually yes, for non controlled medications, after an evaluation and records review. Switching shouldn't mean starting over or missing a refill.
About Yarmouth
Yarmouth is home to about 9,000 residents. It's a close-knit residential community on the Royal River north of Portland. Our patients here range across families in a close-knit community north of Portland.
Serving Yarmouth
Care should reach every corner of Yarmouth. As a coastal town on the Royal River, northeast of Portland, Yarmouth stretches from the Main Street village, the Royal River, and Royal River Park, and shrinkMD brings board-certified telepsychiatry to all of it by secure video, with the same psychiatrist over time.
What it costs
Transparent, published pricing
Our self-pay prices are the same in every state where we practice. No insurance billing, and no surprise statement later.
| Service | Self-pay price | What's included |
|---|---|---|
| Initial evaluation | $295 or $395 | $295 with a psychiatric nurse practitioner or $395 with a psychiatrist: a full 45 to 60 minute evaluation, diagnosis, and written plan. |
| Follow-up visits | $110 to $215 | Per visit, depending on clinician and length. Member rates are lower where membership is offered. |
| Membership (optional) | $49 per month | Lower follow-up prices ($145 psychiatrist, $110 nurse practitioner, $120 therapy). First 30 days free. Maine only, once intake opens; not available in Nebraska or Florida at launch. |
Your care team
Who you will see
Your care is delivered by shrinkMD clinicians, and you keep the same one over time. You meet by secure video with a clinician licensed in your state.
- Shariq Refai, MD, MBA, FAPA, founder and board certified psychiatrist (ABPN), dual board certified in psychiatry and in sports and performance psychiatry.
- Matthew George, PMHNP-BC, ANP-BC, dual board certified psychiatric nurse practitioner with more than two decades of clinical experience.
Learn more
- psychiatric medications, explained
- medication vs therapy vs lifestyle
- questions to ask your prescriber
More from a trusted source: Mental health medications - MedlinePlus.
Nearby areas
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