03/02/2025
Provider Highlight:
Dr. Naila Azhar
Naila Azhar is a Boston-based psychiatrist trained both in psychotherapy and medication management. Through her clinical practice, she offers a welcoming, empathic, and warm space so that patients feel confident, safe, and enthusiastic about sharing their thoughts, emotions, challenges, and goals.
She hopes to better understand each patients inner world and how it affects his/her/their behaviors, social environment, and relationships. She helps her patients gain heightened self-awareness for making deep-seated and meaningful changes to his/her/their personality and emotional development. A little bit about her background: She was born in South Asia. After medical school, she completed residency training at the University of CT and studied health education at Emory University. Her experience of different cultures, travel around the world, education, and training in psychiatry have taught her the wisdom and patience to understand and respect the diverse human condition and its effects on the human mind and their lives.
Dr. Azhar has extensive experience in treating patients with treatment-resistant depression, anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, social anxiety disorder, panic disorder, agoraphobia, post-traumatic stress disorder, and alcohol use disorder. She has safely administered Ketamine, anxiolytic medications, and stimulants, and performed. Areas of focus include depression and other mood disorders, anxiety, personality, stress and trauma-related disorders, psychosis, focus and compulsive disorders, relationship strain, life transitions, career stresses, gender dysphoria, gender transitions myriad other challenges.
Services include:
Medication management.
Psychotherapy/Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Comprehensive Psychiatric Consultation and second opinion.
o www.awakenmindcenter.com
o info@awakenmindcenter.com
o Office phone: 617-729-2369
Awaken Mind Center accepts the following insurances (Commercial Plan only)
o Aetna
o Allways Health Partners/Mass General Brigham Health Plans
o Blue Cross Blue Shield – BCBS
o Cigna
o Harvard Pilgrim
o Optum Health
o Tufts Health Commercial
o United Health
