Rozina Lakhani, MD, MPH, Psychiatrist with a Passion for Prevention, brings simple tools for busy professionals in her new book ‘Stress to Joy’
Get to know Dr. Rozina Lakhani, Psychiatrist, Author and Speaker who has been awarded the 2018 Top Doctor Award in Washington. Serving clients in the state of Washington as well as all over the world through her telehealth clinic and online programs.
Specialty: Treatment and Prevention of Stress, Addiction, and Depression.
Masters and Psychiatry Residency: University of Illinois in Chicago
Medical School: Aga Khan University, Pakistan
Education: Dr. Lakhani graduated with her Bachelor of Medicine Bachelor of Surgery in 1993 from Aga Khan University in Pakistan. After receiving her Medical Degree she relocated to the United States. She then attended the University of Illinois at Chicago where she completed her Residency in Psychiatry and Masters of Public Health in 1999. She is a Diplomate of American Boards of Psychiatry and Neurology. To stay up to date in her profession she remains a professional member with the American Psychiatric Association, Clinical TMS society, and Stress Institute.
Experience: She has worked in hospitals, Community Mental Health, Outpatient Clinics, and Drug Treatment Programs. She has experience treating patients with resistant depression with medications and TMS- Transcranial magnetic stimulation as well as stress and addiction treatment provider.
Current Positions: Dr. Lakhani currently serves as a medication and TMS treatment to patients with severe depression at Shifa health both locally and internationally through telehealth program. She runs a Stress to Joy clinic with individual coaching, art meditation workshops, and group therapy. She is a transformational speaker and has authored a number one best selling book, ‘Stress to Joy; Your Toolkit to Restore Peace of Mind in Minutes”. She is also Medical Director at Residence XII, a women drug treatment program and a clinical professor at the University of Washington.
Psychiatry: Psychiatry is the branch of medicine focused on the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental, emotional and behavioral disorders. Preventive psychiatry focuses on the prevention of these conditions through early intervention in form of psychoeducation and mind training. People take preventive steps by developing their stress resilience and happiness habits. People seek psychiatric treatment for many reasons. The problems can be sudden, such as a panic attack, frightening hallucinations, thoughts of suicide, or hearing “voices.” Or they may be more long-term, such as feelings of sadness, hopelessness, or anxiousness that never seem to lift or problems functioning, causing everyday life to feel distorted or out of control.
Personal: She is a mother of two, a volunteer, a businesswoman, a teacher, a speaker, and an author.
Learn More about Dr. Rozina Lakhani:
Blogs, books, and profile at https://drrozina.com/ and http://www.shifahealth.org/rozina-lakhani-md-mph/.
She can be contacted at (425) 742-4600 at Shifa health, located in Everett, WA.
