Every treatment plan follows a complete evaluation — presenting symptoms, family and medical history, and how functioning has been affected at work, in study and in relationships. What follows is decided by the diagnosis: medication, therapy, or both together, reviewed and adjusted over time. For children, adults and older people.
A structured medical assessment — the part most people have never had done properly, even after years of treatment.
When it started, how it has moved, what runs in the family, and how far it has affected work, study, sleep and relationships. Plus what has already been tried, and what happened.
A formal clinical examination — mood, thought, perception, cognition. This is a medical procedure, not a conversation.
Thyroid, B12, anaemia, sleep apnoea and medication side effects all imitate psychiatric illness. Bloods ordered where indicated.
Told to you directly, with the reasoning. Including when the honest answer is that it is not yet clear.
Medication, therapy, or both — whichever the diagnosis calls for. Where medication is started: what it does, the dose, how the first fortnight tends to feel, and what to do if it does not suit you.
Follow-up at set intervals, with dose adjustment and blood-level checks where the medicine requires them.
Trained subspecialties are marked. Each area opens a full page: why the condition happens, how it is assessed, what treatment usually involves, and why it is worth treating.
Psychiatry and psychology are separate professions, with different training and different scope. Knowing which one your situation calls for is worth a minute of reading.
Name, mobile number, UPI. No account, no password, no long form.
Instantly, then reminders a day before and ten minutes ahead.
Video in your browser. Unhurried — it takes as long as it takes.
Diagnosis, prescription and next review date, on WhatsApp within the hour.
Video · includes the written diagnosis and treatment plan
Video · review, dose adjustment and repeat prescription
A full review of an existing diagnosis and current medication
Living away brings its own things — isolation, the weight of expectation from home, decisions about marriage and care of parents made across time zones, and the particular exhaustion of explaining your family to someone who has no reference for it. Consultations are in English or Hindi, with someone who already understands the context.
An Indian prescription is not dispensable abroad. What a consultation can do is give you a diagnosis, a treatment plan and a written summary to take to a local prescriber — which is often the slow, expensive part of getting treated overseas. That is said plainly here so nobody books expecting otherwise.
A psychiatrist is a medical doctor: she can diagnose, prescribe and monitor medication. A therapist works through talking, and cannot prescribe. Many people need one or the other, some need both, and it is often not obvious which from the outside. If you are not sure, start with the evaluation — part of its job is to answer exactly that question, and if therapy alone is what you need, Dr Rajawat will say so and refer you.
No. The treatment follows the diagnosis, not the other way round. A fair number of evaluations end with no prescription at all — sometimes the finding is a physical cause, sometimes it is that therapy alone is the right treatment. Where medication is worth starting, you will be told what it does and what the alternatives are before anything is written.
Usually not — but the honest answer depends on what is being treated, and you are told which it is before anything is started. A first episode of depression or anxiety is typically treated for a defined period, often six to twelve months after you feel well, and then tapered. Some conditions — bipolar disorder among them — are managed long term, and that is said plainly rather than discovered later. What holds in every case: psychiatric medication is reduced to a plan with dates, never stopped abruptly, and whether to continue is revisited at each review rather than assumed.
A large part of this work is anxiety, disturbed sleep, low mood, difficulty focusing and the effects of long-running stress — in people who are working, studying and running households throughout. Severity is not the entry requirement. The useful question is not "is this bad enough" but "would a proper medical assessment tell me something I do not currently know". Quite often it does.
It is the most common reason people wait, and it is worth saying plainly that the waiting usually costs more than the appointment does. Practically: consultations are from wherever you are, nothing is shared with family, employers or insurers without your written consent, and messages come from a clinic name rather than anything identifying. Nobody needs to be told. Whether you choose to tell them later is a separate decision, and often an easier one once you know what you are dealing with.
Yes — that is exactly what the second opinion consultation is for. Bring your prescriptions and any reports. A surprising number of people are on the wrong drug, the wrong dose, or a combination nobody has revisited in years.
Methylphenidate cannot be prescribed by teleconsultation under Indian law. The assessment can be done online. Where it is the right treatment, Dr Rajawat arranges an in-person appointment case by case, or refers you to a psychiatrist in her network in your own city. This is a legal rule, not a judgement about you.
Yes. Child and adolescent psychiatry is one of her trained areas. A parent or guardian must be present for the whole consultation for anyone under 18, and the first appointment is usually longer.
No. Records are confidential under the Mental Healthcare Act, 2017 and are not shared with anyone without your written consent. WhatsApp messages come from a clinic name.
Common, especially with memory problems and late-life depression. You can book a consultation for yourself first to discuss how to approach it. That is a legitimate use of the appointment, not a workaround.
Call Tele-MANAS 14416 — free, 24 hours, in most Indian languages. If someone is in immediate danger, call 112 or go to the nearest hospital. Please do not wait for an appointment.