Meet Lucia Cheng, MD – Board-Certified General Adult & Perinatal/Reproductive Psychiatrist, Board-Certified Lifestyle Medicine Physician
Dr. Lucia Cheng was born in Taiwan and immigrated to California at the age of seven. She completed her bachelors degree at UC Riverside and completed her medical degree at Medical College of Wisconsin in 2004. She then returned to California and completed her general psychiatry residency training at Loma Linda University Medical Center in 2008.
After residency Dr. Cheng worked as teaching faculty at Loma Linda University Medical Center providing specialized women’s mental health services, and as clinical staff at Loma Linda Veterans Affair Medical Center. She then moved to Northern California where she worked as the medical director of the outpatient Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder treatment program at the Veterans Affair Medical Center based in Livermore, where she developed experience treating patients using telepsychiatry. Dr. Cheng then worked as an inpatient staff psychiatrist at Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz. In 2012, Dr. Cheng started working exclusively as a telehealth psychiatrist and founded Phoenix Progressive Psychiatric Services in 2018 .
Dr. Cheng has been sub-specializing in Perinatal/Reproductive Psychiatry care for over a decade. Dr. Cheng is also board certified in Lifestyle Medicine with additional Integrative Psychiatry training and maintains a holistic philosophy in her practice. While recognizing the immense benefits of medication treatment, Dr. Cheng works closely with patients to minimize the use of psychiatric medications whenever possible.
Dr. Cheng is a member of the American Telemedicine Association (ATA), Marcé of North America (MONA) and Postpartum Support International (PSI), and has completed the PSI Perinatal Mental Health certification training. In addition, Dr. Cheng currently serves on the board of directors of the International Society of Reproductive Psychiatrists (ISRP) and is a volunteer expert consultant for the PSI Prescriber Consult Line. Dr. Cheng loves working with women in the pre-pregnancy, pregnancy, and post-partum stages of their lives, and especially enjoys doing pre-conception consultations with women already on psychiatric medications and planning pregnancy. Dr. Cheng also enjoys working with the video gaming community as she is an avid gamer herself.
During her free time Dr. Cheng enjoys spending time with her family and friends, practicing Chinese wushu, playing complicated board games, and playing video games. Dr. Cheng also enjoys attending various video gaming-related conventions and volunteers with TakeThis.org at their Hope Booth and AFK Room whenever she can.
