Specialties & Experience

General Specialties: Psychiatry

Specialty Focus: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Trauma, Psychiatry, Virginia, IME, File Review

Education: MD, University of South Carolina School of Medicine; Specialty in Psychiatry, Medical College of Virginia Hospitals

Years in Practice: 31

Number of Times Deposed/Testified in Last 4 Yrs: 25

Additional Information

Dr. Sheorn is a sole practitioner who specializes in the clinical diagnosis and treatment of PTSD. She is also the Director of Psychotherapy Training at the Department of Psychiatry at the Virginia Commonwealth University's Medical College of Virginia where she supervises and teaches the psychiatry residents. She runs a yearly seminar in Human Psychological Development and holds a weekly case conference where she emphasizes the complexity of diagnosing PTSD. As the recent past-president of the Virginia Psychoanalytic Society, Dr. Sheorn has an exceptional skill in the use of the DSM 5 as well as an understanding of the dynamics and other diagnostic signals that are necessary to rule out PTSD and rule in a more appropriate diagnosis.