Nikhil Teja, Psychiatrist

"I’ve been a patient’s of Dr. Teja for quite a few years & I could not say enough good things. He not only goes out of his way for his patients but in my experience he has taken the time to understand me and my life in order to better treat me. He is an amazing doctor & I would HIGHLY recommend him."

"Best counseling staff, and really good service all around."

"My limited prior experience was with a psychiatrist in an outpatient hospital setting, so I was unsure what to expect from this LifeStance remote video provider situation. What I have learned over the past months is that Dr Nikhil Teja is remarkably adept at making this tele-health format work very well indeed ! Dr Teja is an excellent listener, and easily draws relevant inferences from both the current conversation and from our prior sessions. I always feel that his attention is clearly focused on all the relevant dimensions: my history and my current status, my current mix of meds & what has been tried in the past, etc. I find that I feel very confident discussing all aspects with him, ranging from details & patterns in my personal life to treatment options & medication choices & effects. In addition to being on-point and professionally alert, well-organized & prepared for each session, Dr Teja is able to bring a calm, compassionate and clear presence which puts me at ease in spite of how challenging I find my own situation to be. I am also impressed with the very speedy & helpful manner in which Dr Teja and the LifeStance health staff respond to online messages and questions which I sometimes need to send between appointments. Every person & situation is unique, of course, but my experience this year suggests that many different kinds of patients would find their time, effort & trust well-rewarded if they reach out to Dr Nikhil Teja when there’s a need for psychiatric help with getting life back on track !!"

"**UPDATE as of 7/17/23** After my initial review (below), Lifestance asked me to reach out to them directly to further "investigate" my claims. I gave them my information, told them I would be happy to provide further feedback, and they confirmed they would share my information with their team. I have yet to hear back from anyone at all from Lifestance so I can only assume that they do not actually care about my experience/seriousness of my review. I felt this should be part of the Google review so others know of my full experience both with the initial virtual visit and with customer service. My initial appointment with Dr. T felt very awkward and like a waste of my time. I didn’t feel like he was eager to help me as a patient and I felt I had to keep the conversation going by asking him what next steps were, or what other questions he had for me. The appointment was done virtually and not only was it complicated to join the virtual call because the instructions were confusing, but even when I did join the call Dr. T’s audio wasn’t working which was frustrating. He ended up calling me directly on a separate line, which was unprofessional. Prior to my visit, I stated that I was not interested in prescription medications, but he still went into detail about those during our visit…again, wasting more of my time. What should have been 1-hour with the provider turned out to be 30 minutes of wasted time since I didn’t feel the provider truly wanted to help me or ask me the questions that needed to be asked to get me to the right specialist. At the end of the visit, Dr. T said he would connect me to a local specialist in my area, however, no follow-up was ever made by him, only by a team of people at Lifestance to “book another appointment with Dr. T.” The continuation of care was awful and I won’t be recommending Dr. T or Lifestance to anyone I know."

"I thought the experience was excellent for our first meeting . We spent one hour together on this zoom call."