Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a member of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, David H. Lehman, MD holds California medical license A77927 with board certification in psychiatry and neurology after his MD from Washington University in St. Louis in 2000 and UCSD psychiatry residency from 2000 to 2004. His Hillcrest practice at 200 W Arbor Drive runs the same integrative psychotherapy-and-pharmacology orientation found at Dr. Kai MacDonald - Psychiatrist/Psychotherapist, whose UCSD-rooted attachment-trauma work pairs naturally with the Ericksonian methods Dr. Lehman draws on. He previously held a UCSD School of Medicine faculty teaching role and joined the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences faculty along with the Naval Medical Center San Diego staff in 2025. The clinical orientation draws heavily on Milton Erickson's communication-based methods, integrating clinical hypnosis with medication management for mood, anxiety, addiction, and psychotic-spectrum cases. Patients who decline the hypnotic component are routed to dedicated CBT-only practices on the corridor, with Anxiety Therapy SD serving as one of the established neighborhood handoff targets for non-hypnosis anxiety work. The most complex casework combines clinical hypnosis with psychopharmacology for treatment-resistant mood and anxiety disorders, run as long-term integrated psychotherapy and medication management.