Andrea Paulitsch-Buckingham, MD – Psychiatrist in Carlsbad, CA | Mindpath Health
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About
Certified in transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), a safe, non-invasive treatment to help depression and OCD.
Dr. Andrea Buckingham’s trauma-informed, holistic, and collaborative approach aims to support and empower patients. Dr. Buckingham dedicates time to completing thorough evaluations for new patients and those continuing psychiatric care. She individualizes treatment plans to fit the patient’s needs, often including a combination of evidence-based medication management, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), brief psychotherapeutic interventions, and lifestyle changes. She has experience working with college students and veterans and providing gender-affirming mental health care.
Born and raised in Austria, Dr. Buckingham is fluent in German but is still learning to cook Austrian dishes. She is a life-long learner and enjoys time with family, practicing yoga, and watching horror movies.
- Residency – State University Of New York University Of Buffalo-Jacobs School Of Medicine And Biomedical Sciences
- Doctor of Medicine (MD) – Universitat Wien
- Specialty Boards: Psychiatry – American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology
Areas of Focus
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Major depressive disorder (MDD)
- Panic attacks/disorders
- Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
- Mood disorders
- Bipolar disorders
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
- Stress management
- Trauma/post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Sleep problems
- Psychiatric consultation
- LGBTQIA+
- Phobias
- Postpartum mental health
- Women’s mental health
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What patients are saying
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I am extremely pleased with my doctor.
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I am very grateful for Dr. Paulitsch-Buckingham. She is very good at her job, makes real connections with her patients, and is extremely knowledgeable, supportive, and insightful. I am grateful to have her as my clinician.
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I’m very impressed with Dr. Paulitsch-Buckingham. She is knowledgeable, caring, and accessible, and I feel I’m in great hands with her.
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Dr. Paulitsch-Buckingham is an excellent fit for me. She understands me, is kind, and knowledgeable about how to best help. I am very grateful to have her.
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Never have I had such a good doctor that actually takes my feeling in consideration. I will never change my doctor.
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I have the best experience with this doctor the advice and direction enables me to take action where I need to go. Thank you!
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I love Mindpath Health. They’re professional, knowledgeable, and encouraging. They always do what’s best for me and treat me like family, not like another case. Thank you, everybody at Mindpath Health!
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I really appreciate Dr. Buckingham’s insights and interest in me and my mental wellness.
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Dr. Buckingham is very kind and warm, I feel very comfortable talking to her.
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I feel understood and I am confident that I am on the right path.
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Excellent every time. I felt comfortable with my psychiatrist, and this is helping a lot with my everyday life, family, and work.
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Dr. Buckingham is amazing! Always understands everything I’m going through!
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Dr. Buckingham is a rockstar psychiatrist!!!
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Dr. Buckingham is amazing and a perfect fit for me. She makes me comfortable to open up and is always spot-on when analyzing my feelings and behavior.
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Dr. Buckingham is awesome. Such a great experience seeing her always. Thanks.
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Dr. Buckingham is one of the best mental health professionals I have ever come into contact with. She makes her patients feel heard and is excellent.
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Dr. Buckingham is friendly, helpful, and always easy to talk with!
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Love the staff and Dr. Buckingham. Thank you.
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The staff and doctor were all pleasant, positive, professional, and experts in their fields. They all were responsive and made efficient use of time.
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Dr Buckingham is a Rock Star like always! Such a good psychiatrist. Really feel like she cares!
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Dr Buckingham is and continues to be a rock star psychiatrist. I’m grateful for her. She is competent, caring, and personable. As every good shrink should be. Highly recommend!
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Dr Buckingham is excellent, so thankful I found her!
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Dr Buckingham is exceptional and really helps me. She is very knowledgeable and is empathetic and helpful with any and all of my concerns and questions.
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Dr Buckingham is fantastic as always. Great in helping me process feelings and situations. I appreciate her.
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Dr Buckingham is, as always, an awesome rock star doctor. Really great at her job. I hope you share these responses with her. And, hey, give her a bonus or something good for the new year…she deserves it! Just saying.
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Dr Bukingham is the best. I feel very comfortable with her. She is warm, knowledgeable and so nice.
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Dr Paulitsch-Buckingham is amazing. She is extremely knowledgeable, kind, and always makes me feel comfortable. She has helped me manage my symptoms and found what works for me.
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Dr. Buckingham continues to be who I turn to every-time I need genuine support, at times even above family. I am grateful to have been connected with her many years ago!
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Dr. Buckingham is amazing and I honestly don’t know where I’d be without her
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Dr. Buckingham is an amazing psychologist. She is the most professional, knowledgeable, and intelligent psychiatrist I have ever met. She is personable, understands the theoretical concepts to apply to my metal health issues. Please give Dr. Buckingha
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Dr. Buckingham is great. I feel very comfortable with her and feel like she helps me a lot. I feel noticeable improvement.
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Dr. Buckingham is phenomenal! I cannot say anything but amazing positive things about my experience!
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Dr. Buckingham is so personable, knowledgeable, and easy to talk to!
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Dr. Buckingham makes me feel heard and I feel like I have a say in my treatment plan. She’s the best.
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Dr. Paulistich-Buckingham is an amazing doctor. I have never met better in my whole life.
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Dr. Paulistich-Buckingham is the absolute best.
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Dr.Buckingham is great to work with
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I am very happy with my provider. She is very patient, kind and really listens. I trust her recommendations. I very grateful to have found her!
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I can’t say enough at how much Andrea Buckingham has helped me. She’s so patient, compassionate and knowledgeable. She gives me choices as far as treatments and lets me be in charge of making decisions with what I want and I appreciate that so very much.
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I enjoy my rapport that I have with Dr. Buckingham. My appointments feel more helpful than they do clinical.
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I have had a wonderful experience and positive transformation while engaging with her services!
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I love how empathetic and invested my clinician is. I feel that she cherishes my successes and is there for me during setbacks.
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I really like Dr Buckingham. She’s very personable & knowledgeable & a good listener. She’s very pleasant.
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I sincerely appreciate my doctor and the organization that supports her. In the last couple of years you have helped me more than everyone else in the previous 30 was ever able to… Thank you, so very much.
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I was very happy w/my clinician & how well she listened & gave great advice.
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I’m SO happy with my therapist for so many reasons. So knowledgeable, kind, understanding, patient and empathetic
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I’ve met with a lot of psychiatrists and psychNPs over the years and was incredibly impressed and comforted with Dr Buckingham’s bedside manner, patience and thoroughness.
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My clinician is a great fit for me, I have the utmost respect for her and feel very comfortable with her.
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My therapist is an excellent fit for me
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Once again Dr Buckingham knocks one out of the park! She is a fantastic psychiatrist. One of a kind. So happy to be seeing her!
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Very pleased with the responsiveness of the staff and professionalism of Dr. Buckingham. Thank you.