Roya Karbakhsh, M.D 

845-255-1117

Adult, Child, and Adolescent Psychiatrist

Dr. Roya Karbakhsh is a Child, Adolescent & Adult psychiatrist serving Hudson Valley community since 2000. She has been working in both inpatient and out patient setting as well ass day programs in Dutches, Ulster,Orange county .  , She has worked in Benedictines, St Francis, Middle town psychiatric center. She is currently and employee of UCMH.she is a graduate of Isfahan Medical University. She graduated from New York Medical College psychiatry residency program in at Saint Vincent's Hospital, New York.  Subsequently, her great love of children and the importance of addressing the childhood psychosocial stressor on the developmental stages led her to attended New York University’s Child & Adolescent Psychiatry fellowship, she thought medical students and residents as an instructor during her fellowship in New York University hospital and NYU Child study center.  She completed a research psychopharmacology fellowship focusing on Child Adolescent pschycho pharmacology research at Mount Sinai with Dr. Jeffery Newcorn.  Her main concentrations included childhood ADHD, Anxiety, and Depression, and PTSD .  Her scientific approach and psychopharmacological intervention as well as her extensive academic experience and expertise in employing various modalities including family and couple therapy, psychodynamic psychotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy CBT, and mindfulness based stress reduction skills, dialectic behavioral therapy DBT. Coherence breathing, meditation, relaxation technique combined with her sympathetic, kindhearted, and caring approaches to her patients make her capable of reaching to the core of her patients' issues and empowers them to enhance their awareness of their potentials in dealing with treatment and recovery. In Her work with children she employs CBT, indirect play therapy, sandbox play therapy, family therapy to enhance their recovery from Anxiety, Depression,  OCD,.PTSD .