Welcome Claire L. Becker, MD, MFA

Penn Highlands Healthcare welcomes board-certified psychiatrist Claire L. Becker, MD, MFA, to its medical staff.

Dr. Becker joins the team at the Behavioral Health Outpatient Center, located at 413 East Gibson Avenue in Connellsville.

Dr. Becker specializes in serious and persistent mental illness, community psychiatry and substance use disorder treatment. She offers comprehensive behavioral health care for adults.

Common treatments and procedures include ADD, ADHD, adjustment disorders, anxiety, autism, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder (BPD), depression, developmental problems, eating disorders, major depressive disorder and schizophrenia.

Prior to joining Penn Highlands, Dr. Becker practiced at UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital in Pittsburgh.

Dr. Becker is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pittsburgh and earned her Master of Fine Arts at St. Mary’s College of California in Moraga, CA. She completed her residency in general psychiatry and fellowship in ECT at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Western Psychiatric Hospital, in Pittsburgh. She also completed a fellowship in public service psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh, Center for Public Service, in Pittsburgh.

She is a member of the American Psychiatric Association.

To learn more about behavioral health at Penn Highlands Healthcare, visit us at www.phhealthcare.org/bhs.