Anne Garrett-Mills

Born and raised in the Denver Metro area, Dr. Garrett-Mills has worked in multiple capacities at Aurora Mental Health Center both administrative and in direct care for the last eleven years. She is an alumni of Denver’s George Washington High School and Oberlin College in Ohio. She graduated medical school at The Ohio State University College of Medicine and returned home to complete a psychiatric residency at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and has been practicing psychiatry locally for more than 20 years.

Her special interests include diverse populations, adult patients with developmental delay, and/or with complex medical, psychiatric and addiction problems. Over the years she has worked as a psychiatrist for a number of specialty clinics serving monolingual Spanish speakers, refugees, homeless adolescents, African immigrants, Asian Pacific Development Center and a number of other programs designed to meet the mental health needs of patients who are traditionally underserved.

She has served on a number of community boards and provided pro-bono education and presentations around mental health for various community organizations. Prior to coming to Aurora Mental Health Center, Dr. Garrett-MIlls was a psychiatrist at the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Fort Logan and Colorado Coalition for the Homeless where she served in both a clinical and administrative role. Her special interest includes, hiking, reading and STEM education. She has spent her free time volunteering in the metro area organizing various supplemental education programs, writing curriculum for STEM programs, and running a local science camp for middle school students.