To address mental health stigmas, raise awareness, and increase mental illness treatments amongst Middle Eastern communities, it is essential to foster open conversations, promote education and understanding about mental health, and work toward building accessible and culturally sensitive mental healthcare services.

While there is still stigma present when it comes to mental health in the Asian American community, I do believe that there is change happening that will hopefully allow more individuals to seek care.

I meld my education in psychiatry and passion for Ayurvedic and Functional Medicine to take this uncommon path, looking at every aspect of the patient from a ‘whole person perspective.’