Dr. Natasha Patel, Experienced Psychiatrist in Gurgaon
Dr. Natasha Patel is a psychiatrist with postgraduate training in general adult psychiatry and super-specialty training in addiction psychiatry. Over six years of intensive training and clinical practice, she has worked across inpatient and outpatient services, caring for people with the full range of mental health conditions, from severe mental illness and psychiatric emergencies to substance use and behavioural addictions.
Her clinical work spans adults, women, children and adolescents. She has particular experience in perinatal mental health, prescribing in pregnancy and lactation, neurodevelopmental conditions, and the psychiatric aspects of epilepsy and headache disorders. In addiction psychiatry, she has managed severe alcohol withdrawal, opioid substitution therapy, harm reduction for people who inject drugs, and behavioural addictions such as gaming, gambling and compulsive internet use, along with alcohol-related liver disease in collaboration with gastroenterology.
Dr. Patel combines medication management with evidence-based psychotherapy and modern neuromodulation treatments. She is also an active teacher and researcher, with publications in peer-reviewed journals and presentations at national and international conferences. She is a university topper in her addiction psychiatry super-specialty examination and has won multiple national-level awards.
Her approach is compassionate, evidence-based and family-inclusive, with a focus on safety, recovery and long-term well-being.
Areas of Expertise:
- Addiction psychiatry: alcohol, opioids and other substance use disorders
- Management of severe alcohol withdrawal
- Opioid substitution therapy (buprenorphine) and harm reduction services
- Behavioural addictions: gaming, gambling, compulsive internet and pornography use
- Alcohol-related liver disease (collaborative assessment and care)
- Severe mental illness: schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, treatment-resistant depression, OCD and related disorders
- Psychiatric emergencies: acute agitation, catatonia, high-risk suicidality, neuroleptic malignant syndrome
- Child and adolescent psychiatry: ADHD, autism spectrum disorder, intellectual disability, learning disorders, anxiety, depression, conduct and tic disorders, school refusal, self-harm
- Women’s mental health: postpartum depression and psychosis, perinatal relapse, prescribing in pregnancy and lactation
- Neuropsychiatry: epilepsy-related psychiatric syndromes, psychogenic non-epileptic seizures, headache disorders
- Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), including modified ECT under anaesthesia
- Neuromodulation and somatic treatments: rTMS, tDCS, ketamine, thiopentone-assisted interviewing
- Psychotherapy: Motivational Enhancement Therapy, Relapse Prevention Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
- Clinical teaching and supervision of postgraduate trainees, nurses and allied mental health professionals
