Holistic Telehealth Psychiatry for Children, Teens, and Adults Across Georgia and the Southeast
Dr. Amar Chakra is double board-certified in General Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He treats children, adolescents, and adults, with particular expertise in working with children and teens.
Dr. Chakra's approach
His approach is rooted in holistic psychiatry, meaning he looks beyond symptoms alone and considers the broader factors that can influence mental health. When developing a treatment plan, Dr. Chakra takes into account sleep, nutrition, physical health, stress, daily routines, relationships, and environment. Recommendations are individualized to the patient rather than based on a one-size-fits-all approach.
Traditional psychiatric care often begins with identifying symptoms, establishing a diagnosis, and determining whether medication may help. For many patients, that approach is effective, but others continue to struggle despite trying multiple medications or treatments. In those cases, Dr. Chakra believes it is important to look more closely at the factors that may be contributing to a person's symptoms, rather than simply continuing to treat the symptoms in isolation.
Telehealth psychiatry across the Southeast
Dr. Chakra is a double board-certified psychiatrist who provides care to children, adolescents, and adults through secure telehealth. He is licensed in Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee, allowing patients throughout these seven states to receive psychiatric care from home without the travel or waiting rooms associated with traditional office visits. Services include comprehensive psychiatric evaluations and ongoing medication management.
Patients must have a permanent address located in a state where Dr. Chakra is licensed. Certain medications are also subject to additional federal and state requirements for telehealth prescribing. If these regulations are relevant to your treatment, Dr. Chakra will discuss them with you and explain how they may affect your care.
SPECT brain imaging is the only portion of the process that requires an in-person visit. Imaging is performed in Atlanta and is available to patients from all seven states. Patients who live outside Georgia can travel to Atlanta for their scan and continue the remainder of their psychiatric care with Dr. Chakra by telehealth.
Who is Dr. Amar Chakra?
Dr. Amar Chakra is a psychiatrist who works with children as young as 6, along with adolescents and adults. He is double board certified in general psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry, and he is licensed to practice medicine in Georgia, Alabama, Kentucky, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Florida.
He grew up in Oklahoma City and came to Atlanta for his undergraduate education at Emory University, with a period of study at King's College London. He returned to Oklahoma for medical school at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, completed his residency in general psychiatry at the University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine in Tulsa, and finished his fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of California, Davis.
He stayed on at UC Davis with a teaching appointment, helping train new child psychiatry fellows. He has co-authored a number of publications and presented at national psychiatry conferences. His clinical work has spanned psychiatric emergency departments, inpatient psychiatric units, adult partial hospitalization, and the California state correctional system, and he served as program director of an adolescent intensive outpatient program in Sacramento before returning to Atlanta.
His clinical interests include ADHD across the lifespan, child and adolescent sports psychiatry, cross-cultural psychiatry, and early-onset psychosis. Learn more about sports psychiatry
What does holistic psychiatry actually mean?
Holistic is a word that gets used loosely, so here is what it means in practice.
A conventional psychiatric appointment tends to focus on symptoms and medication. A holistic evaluation starts wider. Dr. Chakra wants to understand what is happening in the rest of your life before he decides what to do about what is happening in your head. That means asking about sleep, nutrition, physical health, stress, family, school or work, and history, because all of those affect how a brain functions and any one of them can be driving symptoms that look psychiatric on the surface.
The second difference is the range of tools. Dr. Chakra works with medicinal herbs and roots, natural amino acids, and medication, choosing among them based on what is best for each individual patient. Some patients are hoping to avoid medication if there is a reasonable alternative. Others have already tried the alternatives and want to talk about medication. The right plan depends on the person, and it comes out of a real conversation rather than a default.
The third difference is that you are part of the decision. Nothing gets started because it is standard. It gets started because it makes sense for you, and you understand why.
What services does Dr. Amar Chakra offer?
Comprehensive psychiatric evaluation. A full assessment that covers symptoms and history along with the physical, lifestyle, and environmental factors that may be contributing to them.
Medication management. When medication is the right tool, Dr. Chakra prescribes it, monitors how it is working, and adjusts as needed.
Supplement and amino acid protocols. For patients working with nutritional and targeted supplement approaches, either on their own or alongside medication.
Treatment planning built around the individual. A plan shaped by your goals and your situation, revisited as things change.
Brain SPECT imaging, as an option. An optional tool used with some patients as one source of information. Learn more about SPECT imaging
Coordinated care with your therapist. Because Dr. Chakra practices alongside the DK Counseling team, psychiatric care and therapy can work from the same understanding of what is going on rather than in separate silos.
Who does Dr. Amar Chakra work with?
He works with children as young as 6, adolescents, and adults.
People come to him for:
- ADHD in children, teens, and adults
- Anxiety
- Depression and mood concerns
- Challenges related to neurodivergence
- Early-onset psychosis
- Complex or treatment-resistant cases where previous approaches have not worked
- Mental health support for young athletes
He also works with families who are trying to make sense of a diagnosis someone else gave them, and who want a second look before committing to a plan.
What happens at a first appointment?
The first visit is focused on Dr. Chakra getting to know the patient and developing a plan.
He will ask about what brings you to care, and also about sleep, eating, physical health, family history, stress, and what daily life actually looks like. If you are bringing your child, expect questions about school, friendships, screens, routines, and what you have already tried.
The goal is a clear picture of the person in front of him before any decisions get made about what comes next.
Frequently asked questions
Ready to talk?
Schedule a psychiatric evaluation with Dr. Amar Chakra. If you are not sure whether psychiatry or therapy is the right starting point, reach out and we will help you figure it out.
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