Dr. Amar Chakra, MD
Double Board-Certified Telehealth Psychiatrist | GA, AL, FL, KY, NC, SC and TN
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 sees patients by telehealth in seven states. See who's eligible for telehealth psychiatry.
About Dr. 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
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Evaluations, medication management, supplement and amino acid protocols, and optional SPECT imaging are described on our psychiatry services page.
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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.