Christopher Holden

Dr. Christopher Holden (Photo: Jenny Fontaine/University of Illinois Chicago)

Dr. Christopher Holden is an assistant professor of clinical psychiatry in the UIC College of Medicine and director of addiction psychiatry at UI Health. He treats a variety of psychiatric conditions, and he specializes in the treatment of patients with co-occurring psychiatric and substance use disorders in the outpatient mental health clinic as well as the hospital’s inpatient medical, surgical and psychiatric units.

Holden believes that patients are most likely to recover from psychiatric and addictive disorders if they are addressed simultaneously, in particular with multiple complementary approaches, which can include medication and psychotherapy.