Consultations
Psychiatric Consulting for Film, Television & Media
Dr. Timothy Wuerz, D.O., a board-certified psychiatrist, offers consulting for projects that portray mental health. He can help writers, producers, and media teams depict conditions, characters, and treatment with accuracy and care.
Script & Story Consultation
Review of scripts, outlines, and story ideas that involve mental health. Feedback focuses on whether symptoms, diagnoses, and the course of a condition are portrayed in a believable, respectful way.
Conditions, Characters & Treatment Scenes
Guidance on how a condition might look and feel for a character, and on how clinicians, therapy sessions, medications, and care settings are shown on screen. The goal is accuracy that serves the story.
Expert Commentary
A psychiatric perspective for interviews, articles, podcasts, documentaries, and other media that discuss mental health. Commentary is clear, balanced, and grounded in clinical practice.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Consulting is available to writers, producers, directors, and media teams working on projects that involve mental health. It can also support journalists and content creators looking for a psychiatric perspective.
Consulting can be helpful at any stage, from early story development to scripts, production, and final review. Bringing in a psychiatric perspective early can make it easier to build accuracy into the story.
Dr. Wuerz is board certified in Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and certified in Neuropsychiatry by the United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties. He has been published in Kaplan and Sadock’s Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, tenth and eleventh editions.
Contact our office with a short description of your project and what you need. Our team will follow up to discuss scope and next steps.
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