The Women's Life Center at The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA is an outpatient program devoted to assessing and treating women with psychiatric conditions associated with hormonal challenges and reproductive life events.

The Center offers supportive and effective approaches to conditions such as premenstrual dysphoric disorder, premenstrual syndrome, psychiatric conditions associated with pregnancy and the postpartum (including breast-feeding), menopause, assisted reproductive technology, infertility and female-specific benign and malignant diseases.

The Center's expert interdisciplinary staff recognizes that helping women deal successfully with emotional conditions associated with hormonal challenges and reproductive life events requires a flexible, supportive approach customized to the needs of each patient. Treatments offered include consultation, short-term psychotherapy, medication management and group therapy.

All consultations, evaluations and treatments at the Center are performed by a faculty of professionals with expertise in women's mental health. Members of the staff of the Women's Life Center include psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers.

In order to provide comprehensive health care and clinical consultation, the Women's Life Center staff works closely with referring clinicians from the numerous specialties, including: Family Medicine, General Internal Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Reproductive Endocrinology, Surgery, Oncology, Orthopedics and Mental Health.

Dr. Vivien K. Burt, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, is the Founder and Director of the Women's Life Center.