Centra Staff

Areas of Specialization

• Psychiatric Evaluations
• Psychotropic Medication Management With or Without Individual Psychotherapy
• Individual Therapy With and Without Medication Management
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT); Behavioral Activation (BA); Exposure Therapy; Exposure and Response Prevention Skills (ERP Skills); Supportive Therapy
• Anxiety Disorders: Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD); Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD); Panic Disorder; Social Anxiety Disorder; Phobias; Body-Focused Repetitive Behavior Disorders (skin picking, hair-pulling); Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
• Mood Disorders: Depression and Bipolar Disorders
• Women’s Mental Health Issues
• Adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (Adult ADHD/Adult ADD)

Adult Psychiatrist

Deanna Pepe, DO is a Board Certified Adult Psychiatrist. She received her Doctor of Osteopathy (D.O.) degree from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey- School of Osteopathic Medicine (UMDNJ-SOM now Rowan-SOM) in Stratford, NJ. She continued her training at UMDNJ-SOM for her Internship and Psychiatric Residency. After completing her Psychiatric Residency training, Dr. Pepe stayed on with the University as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry.

Dr. Pepe has over 20 years’ experience treating adult individuals from diverse backgrounds for a wide range of mental health concerns. She has provided care in a variety of treatment settings including Crozer’s HAN outpatient Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Practice in Upland, Pennsylvania. While at Crozer, Dr. Pepe served on the Peer Review Committee, was a member of the Women’s Mental Health Group, and served as Medical Director for one of HAN Psychiatry’s collaborative sites, Lower Merion Counseling Services (LMCS.). For her work at LMCS, Dr. Pepe was presented with the 2016 Montgomery County Recovery and Resiliency Award.

Dr. Pepe later joined Rogers Behavioral Health as they opened a regional location in Philadelphia. There she provided psychiatric oversight and medication care for the Adult OCD and Anxiety Disorders Partial Hospitalization Programs (PHP’s) and Intensive Outpatient Programs (IOP’s) and the Adult Depression PHP’s and IOP’s.

A South Jersey native, Dr. Pepe returned to the area and has provided psychiatric medication management and psychotherapy for adult individuals in both semi-integrated and fully integrated care models within primary care practice settings before joining Centra.

Professional Affiliations

American Psychiatric Association

www.psych.org

American Osteopathic Association

https://osteopathic.org

American College of Osteopathic Neurologists and Psychiatrists

https://acn-aconp.webs.com

New Jersey Association of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons

www.njaops.org

Honors, Distinctions, Publications

• 2016 Montgomery County Recovery and/or Resiliency Award
• Kumar G, Pepe D, and Steer RA (2004) Adolescent psychiatric inpatients’ self-reported reasons for cutting themselves. J Nerv Ment Dis. 192: 830-836
• Mahoney MG, Simpson A, Jost M, Noe M, Pepe D, Choi YW, Uitto J, Rodeck U (2002) Metastasis-associated protein (MTA) 1 enhances migration, invasion, and anchorage independent survival of immortalized human keratinocytes. Oncogene. 21, 2161-2170