General Psychiatry Residency Program

Kirsten Hull, MD, is Director of Psychotherapy Training for the Brown Psychiatry Residency Program and a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior. She also serves as Director of the Residency Continuity Clinic at Butler Hospital, where residents see adult outpatients for psychotherapy and psychopharmacologic treatment during their PGY2-4 years.

Dr. Hull joined the Brown community as an undergraduate, and having completed her medical degree and residency here at Brown, was a chief resident during her PGY4 year. After completing residency, Dr. Hull worked in community mental health and integrated behavioral health in New Bedford, MA, and Riverside and Newport, RI, initially as a National Health Service Corps scholar. Since joining the DPHB faculty in 2013, Dr. Hull has co-led a year-long course designed to introduce PGY-2 residents to psychotherapy, and she has served as a psychotherapy supervisor. She teaches various seminars on psychotherapy and has been involved in curriculum development and a monthly group meeting for the Psychiatry Residency Program's psychotherapy supervisors. Dr. Hull has been an attending psychiatrist in the Residency Continuity Clinic since 2019. In 2021, she received the Dean's Excellence in Teaching Award. Dr. Hull also maintains a private practice in Providence, where she provides individual psychotherapy and psychopharmacologic treatment for adults. Her therapy practice is rooted in psychodynamic theory, while also striving to integrate other evidence-based modalities. 

Her academic and clinical interests include resident training; contemporary psychodynamic theory and practice; social determinants of health and the treatment of marginalized populations; health care professional wellbeing; and psychodynamically informed psychopharmacologic treatment.