Ravi Chandra, MD

Specialties

Empathic, culturally sensitive psychiatric care for all your therapeutic needs, from relationship and work issues to couples counseling. Whether you have depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder or other psychiatric conditions, or just need help sorting through complex emotions and situations, my goal is to help relieve your suffering and improve your quality of life.

Experience, insight, integrity, depth, support. I specialize in understanding you and what’s happening: your culture, current dilemmas, patterns, strengths, interests, relationships, life history, and visions of yourself and the world. Our work will be tailored to fit your individual needs, through therapy, medications, or both. I have advanced training and interest in depth work, including psychodynamic and mindfulness approaches. The goal is to help you cope with life, grow, enjoy fulfilling relationships, achieve your potential and develop resilience. I am a certified diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, expert blogger for Psychology Today and active member of the Asian American committee of the Northern California Psychiatric Society.

History

Established in 2005.

Providing psychiatric therapy services since 2005. After getting my medical degree, I worked in family medicine and bioethics before changing my field to psychiatry, because of interest in trauma, culture and identity issues. My writing focuses on culture, spirituality and psychology.

I’m both a good listener and interactive: I’m not afraid to be «in the room». I’m known for a good sense of humor.

Meet the Business Owner

Dr. Chandra R.

Business Owner

Dr. Chandra is Board Certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and is a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He received his Sc.B. in Biology from Brown University in 1989, an M.D. from Stanford Medical School, and completed his Psychiatry Residency at the University of California, San Francisco in 2005. He has interests in spirituality, film and cross cultural psychiatry.

I will work to understand you and your situation on all levels: biological, psychological, social, cultural and spiritual. I enjoy working with mindfulness techniques, as well as psychodynamic, cognitive-​behavioral, and short– and long-​term therapies. The goal is generating wisdom, compassion, insight and relatedness through the therapeutic relationship.