Dr. Peter Gobar

Biography

Dr. Peter Gobar is a board-certified psychiatrist at Steadfast Psychiatry. Peter is known for always believing and never giving up as his patients journey to “living their best life” and is a man of faith. For more information, please call us to schedule an appointment. Dr. Gobar’s office is located at 8200 Jog Rd., Suite 205, Boynton Beach, FL 33472.

Dr. Peter Gobar is a board-certified psychiatrist with his Doctorate of Medicine from the University of Kentucky, who has been dedicated to helping people recover from anxiety and depression and many other conditions to live their best life.

Peter is a man of faith and enjoys helping people find the hope, courage, and conviction they need in order to overcome whatever emotional or mental hurdles they have been facing. In addition to helping people with conditions such as mild depression or high stress from jobs or their professional / personal relationships, he also has successfully worked with patients experiencing deeper trauma due to depression or requiring intensive therapy due to psychosis. Dr. Gobar believes steadfastly in the power of faith, hope, and love and applies these actively in his medical and mental health practice.

Dr. Gobar has over 20 years’ experience as a psychiatrist and had the distinction and honor to serve as the Psychiatric Medical Director for JFK Hospital in Atlantis and then as Medical Director for outpatient services for patients needing intense therapy. From his first rotation in psychiatry, he was recognized for his ability. A kind and compassionate man, Dr. Gobar finds his choice to be a doctor of psychiatric medicine very rewarding and enjoys helping his patients achieve mental and emotional wellbeing.

His professional perspective is to practice psychiatry with a spiritual-biological-psychological-social approach, with thoughtful excellence of care and psycho-education. As a young man, he learned that every human is worthy of understanding and in his own words, “I internalized that belief to the very core of who I am.” Dr. Gobar uses this awareness and understanding to help his patients recover and learn to live their best life.

His non-work interests include home life, cultivating ever-better friendships, computational fluid dynamics, all manner of mechanical things, reading, music, and usually, a dog.

Awards

• Speaker. Presented Comorbid Illness and Treatment of Eating Disorders at the Park Nicollet Eating Disorders Update, a medical education conference hosted by a subspecialty department to educate other clinicians about the diagnosis and comprehensive treatment of eating disorder patients. (April 2008)
• Radio-interviewed on the topic of anxiety, WKPQ NewsTalk AM 560, Wenatchee, WA. (May 2005)
• Also spoke to community groups on the topics of Depression in Women and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. (March 1999, April 2000)

Education

• Residency. Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA. Specialty: General Psychiatry. July 1995-June 1998
• Internship. Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA. Integral with Psychiatry Residency Training Program. July 1994-June 1995
• M.D. University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, KY. August 1990-May 1994
  B.S. Transylvania University, Lexington, KY. Major: Biology / Minor:Psychology. August 1983-May 1987