About

Dr. Jessie DiCarlo is a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist in Houston, Texas. Dr. DiCarlo helps people with a wide variety of problems including: trauma, depression, high anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder / scrupulosity, existential concerns, and burn-out in helping professionals.

At The Menninger Clinic, Texas Children’s Hospital, and Tufts Medical Center, Dr. DiCarlo trained with leaders in psychodynamic and family therapies, advanced psychopharmacology, and evidence-based medicine.

Her approach

Dr. DiCarlo offers enhanced confidentiality as an independent physician.

Dr. DiCarlo seeks to care for each patient as an individual with unique developmental, medical, psychological, spiritual, and social factors. If psychiatric illness is present, accurate diagnosis is key to effective treatment. In most cases, Dr. DiCarlo leans strongly into the importance of psychotherapy— with an emphasis on psychodynamic and family therapies. When medications are prescribed, it is typically done with thoughtful integration of therapy.

Dr. DiCarlo helps people talk about stress, relationship struggles and patterns, childhood pain that continues to affect them, loneliness, shame, life transitions, losses, and hopes. She will walk beside you as together you explore meaning, identity, and vocation. She will listen and help you treat yourself more kindly. Dr. DiCarlo is here to support your growth in understanding and loving yourself and others.


Training and Education:

Baylor College of Medicine
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship
Houston, Texas

Tufts Medical Center

Psychiatry Residency
Boston, Massachusetts

Tufts Medical Center
Pediatrics Internship
Boston, Massachusetts

The University of Texas Medical School at Houston

Doctor of Medicine (M.D.)
Houston, Texas

Texas A&M University
Bachelor of Science, Biomedical Sciences
College Station, Texas


Board Certifications:

American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

  • Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

  • Psychiatry