About Dr Froude
Originally from Bristol, England, Dr Froude has made his home in Colorado for the past 20 years. His background in the literary arts--combined with a broad knowledge of evidence-based psychopharmacology--affords a unique skillset to understand and conceptualize your individual narrative.
His approach to psychiatry is founded on empathy and active listening alongside scientific rigor and an attention to individual nuance. Dr Froude collaborates with his patients toward lasting solutions. He is proud to practice LGBTQ+ affirming psychiatry.
Dr Froude is licensed to practice medicine in the state of Colorado. He earned his MD from the University of Colorado School of Medicine in 2018, where he also completed residency training in psychiatry, served as chief resident at Denver Health Medical Center, and has worked as a staff psychiatrist on the high intensity treatment team at Wellpower (formerly MHCD).
Alongside his private practice, Dr Froude works in outpatient behavioral health in the Denver Health system, and is clinical faculty at the CU School of Medicine where he works primarily with resident physicians training in the community mental health track.
He has been recipient of both the Franklin Ebaugh Award for psychiatry and the Henry Claman award for contribution to the Arts and Medicine. He also holds a PhD from the University of Denver, an MFA in Writing and Poetics from Naropa University, and an honors degree in Philosophy from the University of Manchester in his native England.
Dr Froude maintains an active role in the writing community that informs his medical practice. He has authored four books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. His most recent--Your Love Alone Is Not Enough: A Novel In Ruins--was published in 2018 by Subito Press at CU Boulder. He is also the author of FABRIC (Horse Less Press, 2011), The Passenger (Skylight Press, 2012), and Tarnished Mirrors: Translations of Charles Baudelaire (Muffled Cry Editions, 2004). His writing has appeared in print and online in numerous publications and he has read and performed his work widely - including appearances on public radio in California, Oregon, and Colorado. For several years, he served as poetry editor for the Journal of Medical Humanities.
He has taught MFA students at the Kerouac School's Summer Writing Program since 2011, alongside various nonfiction, memoir, and hybrid/experimental forms workshops at Lighthouse Writers Workshop since 2012. In addition, he has facilitated writing workshops with the Alzheimer's Association and taught as a guest artist on several occasions at the Denver School of the Arts.
