Psychiatric Services

Psychiatric Services • Menlo Park + California Telehealth

Thorough and thoughtful outpatient psychiatry for functioning adults seeking clarity and steady care.

Where Most People Start

Choose your starting point. You can adjust later.

A lot of people are not sure what they need yet. These pages explain what each service looks like.

How Care Works

Clear steps, steady follow-up.

Start with an evaluation, agree on a plan, then track progress over time with adjustments as needed.

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Culturally Attuned Care

Context matters, and you won’t have to explain yours from scratch.

Family expectations, achievement pressure, and stigma can shape anxiety, depression, burnout, and trauma-related stress in ways that are easy to miss.

Dr. Khan offers culturally attuned care, including for South Asian and immigrant family contexts, without assumptions or stereotypes. The goal is clarity and a plan that fits your life.

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Psychiatric Evaluation & Assessment

Clarity and next steps when you’re not sure what you’re dealing with.

A comprehensive evaluation is often the cleanest place to start, especially for high-functioning adults who have been pushing through for a long time. Dr. Khan conducts a detailed clinical assessment of symptoms and timeline, stress load, sleep and daily functioning, and relevant medical and personal history. When helpful, she incorporates screening tools, reviews records, and coordinates with your therapist or other providers.

The goal is to reduce guessing and give you a clear plan you can act on.

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Best for:

  • “I don’t know if this is anxiety, depression, burnout, trauma stress, or overlap.”
  • “I’m functioning, but it’s getting harder to keep functioning.”
  • “I want a thoughtful plan, not trial and error.”

Psychiatric Medication Management

Ongoing care with careful follow-up, not rushed prescriptions.

Medication management is designed for people who want steady, structured psychiatric support over time. This work is not about a quick prescription. It is about choosing medication thoughtfully when it’s appropriate, monitoring response, addressing side effects, and making adjustments based on real outcomes like sleep, focus, mood, and stress tolerance.

Follow-ups are part of the model because that’s how treatment becomes accurate and sustainable.

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Best for:

  • Anxiety, depression, trauma-related stress, or burnout affecting daily life
  • People already on medication who want more thoughtful fine-tuning
  • Anyone who wants ongoing psychiatric support and continuity

Psychotherapy

Integrated support

For some patients, talk-based support is an important part of care. Psychotherapy may be incorporated when appropriate to help you better understand patterns, build insight, and work through anxiety, depression, trauma-related stress, or life transitions in a more supported way.

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Best for:

  • Patients who want a more reflective, supportive layer of care
  • Anxiety, depression, trauma-related stress, or life transitions
  • Ongoing care that includes both insight and practical support

Telepsychiatry

Online care across California

Psychiatric care is available online for adults located anywhere in California. Telepsychiatry offers the same thoughtful, structured approach to evaluation and ongoing care, with the flexibility to meet from home, work, or wherever life is happening.

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Best for:

  • Adults anywhere in California seeking psychiatric care
  • Busy schedules, privacy needs, or limited local access
  • Ongoing care that is flexible, consistent, and easy to attend

Depression Treatment

When you’re still functioning, but everything feels heavier than it should.

Depression isn’t always obvious from the outside. Many high-functioning adults continue to work and meet responsibilities while feeling flat, numb, foggy, or emotionally worn down. Dr. Khan focuses on understanding what is driving symptoms and what may be overlapping with burnout, anxiety, or trauma-related stress.

Care is structured around clarity, treatment planning, and follow-up over time, so you are not left guessing about whether things are improving.

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Best for:

  • Low mood, numbness, irritability, or loss of motivation
  • Brain fog and reduced focus
  • Burnout and depression overlap that isn’t lifting with rest

Anxiety Treatment

Support for high-functioning anxiety that won’t shut off.

Anxiety does not always look like panic. For many high-functioning adults, it looks like constant overthinking, difficulty relaxing, insomnia, irritability, and feeling “on” all the time. Dr. Khan helps clarify the anxiety pattern and what is driving it, then builds a plan that fits your real life.

Treatment may include medication when appropriate, coordination with therapy when helpful, and steady follow-up so progress can be tracked and adjusted over time.

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Best for:

  • High-functioning anxiety, overthinking, rumination
  • Panic symptoms or sudden anxiety spikes
  • Anxiety affecting sleep, focus, patience, or relationships

Trauma-Informed Psychiatry

When your nervous system stays on alert, even when life looks stable on paper.

Trauma-related stress can show up as hypervigilance, sleep disruption, irritability, shutdown, or feeling like you can’t fully relax. Trauma-informed psychiatric care is paced and structured. You do not need to share details you are not ready to share.

The goal is to understand the pattern, reduce reactivity, and build steadiness over time. When medication is appropriate, it is used carefully to support sleep, baseline calm, and daily functioning, often alongside therapy.

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Best for:

  • PTSD symptoms or trauma-related stress patterns
  • Sleep disruption, hypervigilance, reactivity, or emotional shutdown
  • Anxiety and depression that feel tied to chronic stress or trauma

Areas of Focus

Support that matches real life, not a one-size plan.

Explore my areas of expertise to learn how care works and what an ongoing treatment relationship can look like.