Welcome:
Drs. Ekkehard and Sieglinde C. Othmer opened Picture Hills Psychiatric Center in 1992 at its present location.
Mission:
Picture Hills Psychiatric Center provides multi-disciplinary services to patients of all age groups including their families. The center’s experts are familiar with all recognized psychiatric disorders and can evaluate and initiate treatments for all of these disorders.
The center uses thorough diagnostic evaluations for the treatment of patients and families, including those with complex mental health needs. Picture Hills Psychiatric Center is a welcoming, non-threatening, and discreet environment. Staff members maintain utmost confidentiality of their patients and families.
Goal of Treatment:
Our team has a unique approach to the treatment of psychiatric disorders. Symptom alleviation and reduction, while helpful and necessary, is only a transient treatment goal. Our team targets our patients’ abilities and encourages them to realize their highest potential, in order to gain success and satisfaction in life.
Therapies:
Therapies used include behavior modification, cognitive therapy, supportive, interpersonal, client centered, social and insight oriented psychotherapy, hypnosis and pharmacotherapy.
Special Services
Services offered include: Pre-Bariatric Surgery Psychiatric Evaluations, 
Academic and Career Counseling, Workplace Conflict Resolution Counseling, Hypnosis, and Second Opinions for treatment refractory patients.
Team members are familiar with legal issues and have served as Expert Witnesses in the court system.
The team develops new services as required by patients’ needs.
Staff Credentials
All team members are board certified. Some have gained national and international recognition through their textbooks on interviewing strategies which so far have been translated into Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. Team members have served as teachers at Universities in the United States. The psychiatrists are examiners of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.
J. Philipp Othmer MD, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and Board Certified Adult Psychiatrist, specializes in family and individual therapy of children and adolescents. He also has an interest in, and is available to conduct: legal consultations, custody evaluations, educational lectures, and second-opinion evaluations.
Ekkehard Othmer MD, PhD, Medical Director of Picture Hills Psychiatric Center, and Board Certified Adult Psychiatrist, is the senior clinician of the center. He specializes in the treatment of bipolar and other mood disorders, anxiety disorders and adult attention deficit disorder (ADHD). He has experience in sleep disorders, hypnosis, insight oriented, behavior and cognitive therapy. As Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Kansas, he teaches medical students at Picture Hills Psychiatric Center.
Robert Olivarez LCSW, a Social Worker and boarded Drug Addiction Counselor, assists patients and families on their path to wellness. As a specialist in marriage and grief counseling, anger therapy, and addiction problems, he collaborates with the psychiatrists and the psychiatric nurse specialist to meet patient and family treatment goals.
Sieglinde C. Othmer PhD, the administrator of the center, facilitates patient interaction with the team. She serves as coordinator of team and medical students of the Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences, who rotate through the center.
Jennifer L. Othmer MSN, CS, an Advanced Practice Nurse in Adult Psychiatry, focuses on brief, focused, supportive psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy, in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team.