Dr. Katina Matthews-Ferrari

Dr. Katina Matthews-Ferrari has been involved in behavioral health since 1983 and joined Charlotte Behavioral Health Care as its Chief Medical Officer in 1993. Prior to joining CBHC, she served on the faculty at the University of Florida in both the Department of Pediatrics and the Department of Psychiatry. She also had a private practice.

Community mental health has always been Dr. Matthews-Ferrari‘s major focus. She treats the life spectrum, although she is impassioned about child and adolescent mental health issues.

Dr. Matthews-Ferrari received her medical degree from St. George’s School of Medicine and did post-graduate training at J. Hillis Miller Health Center College of Medicine and the University of Florida. She is Board Certified in both general Psychiatry and in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She is a Fellow in the American Psychiatric Association (APA) as well as the Florida Psychiatric Association, and she is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP). Most recently she has been nominated to become a Distinguished Life Fellow of both APA and the AACAP.

Dr. Matthews-Ferrari was born in Toronto Canada. She comes from a long line of educators and mental health clinicians – except for a world famous opera singer aunt. By accompanying her aunt around the world on singing engagements until her retirement, her aunt helped shape her understand of people and expanded her cultural focus. Dr. Matthews-Ferrari has been married to Patrick Giovanni Ferrari since 1986.