Psychiatry
Depression, anxiety, panic, ADHD, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, PTSD and trauma, sleep problems, memory concerns, anger, eating disorders. Medication managed carefully, and only when it earns its place.
Reading the clock
Here when you need us most
Five doors. Two time zones. One clock.
Every door, right now
This is not a list somebody typed. It reads the clock against each office's own hours, and Opelika keeps Central time, an hour behind the four Georgia offices.
Reading the clock
You should not have to wait two months to be heard
Across this region, the wait to see a psychiatrist runs one to two months. That is long enough for the reason you called to pass, or to get worse, or to end somewhere nobody wanted it to end.
So we opened a walk-in clinic, and it is still the only psychiatry walk-in clinic in the area. You do not need an appointment. You do not need a referral from anyone. You need to come to Columbus between eight and four, Monday through Friday, and bring three things.
What actually happens
No surprises. This is the whole visit, start to finish.
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You sign in
Bring a photo ID, your insurance card, and your current medication bottles if you take any. We hand you the paperwork here, or you can fill it in before you come and skip that part.
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You wait, honestly
Plan on one to two hours between paperwork, checking your insurance, and the assessment itself. People are seen in the order they arrive. We will not pretend otherwise, and we will tell you where you stand.
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You see a real clinician
A board certified psychiatrist, or a board certified child and family psychiatric nurse practitioner. Not a screener and not a form. The person you sit with can treat you.
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You leave with a plan
A diagnosis if there is one, a treatment plan you agree with, prescriptions sent to your pharmacy if they are needed, and your next appointment before you go.
Yes, we very likely take your insurance
In network with more than fifty carriers, and that includes the plans most psychiatry offices in this region turn away.
Blue Cross Blue Shield
Aetna
Cigna
UnitedHealthcare
Ambetter
Tricare
Medicare
Georgia Medicaid
Alabama Medicaid
and more than forty others
The four marked plans are the ones people expect to be refused. We take all four. If you are not sure what you have, bring the card and we will check it while you are here.
What we treat, and who we treat
Children, teenagers, adults and older adults. One practice, so the psychiatrist, the counselor and the autism team can actually talk to each other.
Children and teenagers
ADHD, aggression, anxiety and depression, autism spectrum, school trouble, bullying, isolation, social media and its damage, crisis. Seen by clinicians board certified specifically in child and adolescent psychiatry.
Counseling and psychological testing
Individual, couples, family and group therapy. Play therapy for young children. Full psychological and diagnostic testing, run by psychologists with decades in it. Open until six, and weekends by appointment.
ABA and autism care
One to one applied behavior analysis for ages two to sixteen, two to thirty hours a week, with a board certified child psychiatrist on site. Rooms built for it: an imagination room, a gym, and practice spaces set up as a grocery store, a barber shop and a doctor's office.
TMS for depression that has not responded
If two or more antidepressants have failed you, or the side effects were not livable, transcranial magnetic stimulation is a different road. No anesthesia, no sedation, and you drive yourself home. Covered by most plans including Tricare and Medicare.
Addiction and recovery
Medication assisted treatment alongside the mental health care, in one place, under one team. Our accreditation covers substance use and mental health together, because they arrive together.
Telepsychiatry and telecounseling
Fill in the form, we call to set a time that suits you, you click a link from a phone or a computer, and prescriptions go electronically to your pharmacy. For a lot of people this is the difference between care and no care.
For referring providers
Psychiatric clearance for surgery, including spinal cord stimulator and weight loss procedures, with the letter faxed to you the same day. We work as part of your patient's care team, not around it.
How we prescribe
“We manage medication safely and conservatively, only using it if we have to, and at the lowest dose that works. We focus on therapy and on the things in a life that can actually change. That is how our patients get better on no medication, or on very little.”
The practice philosophy, in the practice's own words
The people who will actually see you
Roughly thirty five clinicians across five offices. Here is the shape of the team, and the ones who lead it.
Kaizad Shroff, MD
Psychiatrist and founder. In practice more than twenty years. Speaks Gujarati and Hindi.
MD
Sher Schwartz, PhD
Clinical psychologist. Four decades of psychological testing, and one of the few psychologists in Georgia qualified to diagnose and treat very young children.
PhD
Kristina Vincent, PsyD
Clinical psychologist. Twenty years across five states, including seven years with active duty service members and their families.
PsyD
Psychiatric nurse practitioners and physician assistants
Thirteen across the five offices, several board certified in child and family psychiatric care.
PMHNP · PA-C
Licensed counselors
Individual, family, couples and group therapy, including a counselor specialising in addiction.
LPC · LCSW
Board certified behavior analysts and technicians
The autism team in Columbus and Newnan, working one to one.
BCBA · RBT
Full names, photographs and bios go here once the practice supplies them
If today is the day you decided
Deciding is the hard part, and you have already done it. The rest is an address and a door, and we will take it from there.
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