Yasin Choudry, M.D.

About Dr. Yasin Choudry

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Bridging mainstream psychiatry and holistic healing to help you find your authentic path to recovery

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The credentials

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I'm a medical doctor, board-certified in psychiatry, addiction medicine, and integrative-holistic medicine. I am certified by the American Society of Addiction Medicine and have other trainings and certifications, too numerous to count. I've been in practice 28 years, and have worked with thousands of patients who didn't fit the standard mental health model.

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On paper, I have the expertise to help people heal. ​But credentials alone don't teach you what I really needed to learn.

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The journey

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I grew up in Pakistan, learning early that some parts of myself needed to stay hidden to survive.

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I'm a highly sensitive, deeply empathic, and intellectually intense person. I carried complex trauma, not from a single event, but from years of needing to hide my vulnerable parts, perform to meet others' expectations, and mask my true nature to be accepted.

 

The mental health system I eventually joined as a psychiatrist had completely missed what was actually happening with me when I was the one seeking help.

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​What got labeled as depression and generalized anxiety were actually my nervous system's intelligent responses to living inauthentically. The exhaustion of constant masking. The grief of suppressing my sensitivity and intensity. The dysregulation that comes from chronic hypervigilance in environments where it felt unsafe to be myself.

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The treatments I received (medication, conventional therapy) only addressed surface symptoms. They never touched the core of what was happening: I was suffering because I'd lost access to my authentic Self.

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It took years of deep exploration to understand this. I explored trauma therapies, somatic healing, parts work, and numerous integrative approaches. I explored where spirituality meets psychology. I questioned much of what I'd been taught in medical school and psychiatry residency, not to reject it, but to understand what it was missing.

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When I finally addressed the root causes (when I healed the trauma, regulated my nervous system, and reclaimed the parts of myself I'd been forced to hide), something remarkable happened: my symptoms dissolved. ​Not because I learned to "manage" them better, but because they were no longer necessary. Once I could live authentically, once my nervous system felt safe, and once I integrated all the parts of myself I'd fragmented to survive, the depression, the anxiety, and the disconnection all fell away.

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What remained was meaning, purpose, and the gifts I was always meant to offer.

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Why I do this work

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When I reached the end of that journey, I discovered I wasn't alone. The Internal Family Systems community was there. The somatic therapy world. The trauma-informed practitioners. The ketamine-assisted therapy pioneers. The Jungian depth psychologists. People who understood that healing goes far deeper than symptom management.

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The tools for real transformation already exist.

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But most people suffering don't know they were missed in the first place. They don't know their sensitivity is a trait, not a disorder. They don't recognize that their symptoms might be their nervous system's way of saying, "Something about how you're living doesn't match who you really are." They've never been told that the problem isn't them; it's that no one saw them clearly. And that they are masking to blend in. 

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I can personally relate to highly sensitive people, gifted and intense individuals, those carrying complex trauma, and those suffering silently from existential despair. I know what it's like to be invisible to the very system designed to help you. My work now is to make sure no one else has to feel that unseen and as lost as I did. ​I know what it takes to find your way when the map you were given doesn't match the territory you're walking.

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And I refuse to let others spend decades searching for what I can help them find now.

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What I believe

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• You're not broken. You were misunderstood.​ Not seen. 

• Healing isn't about managing symptoms forever. It's about addressing what created them in the first place.​

• The path to recovery requires more than medication and surface-level coping skills. It requires understanding your nervous system, healing attachment wounds, reconnecting with your body, finding meaning, and integrating all the parts of yourself you've had to hide.​

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This is what I call Radical Recovery: the realization that when we heal the wounds beneath our symptoms, reclaim our authenticity, and create lives that honor our true nature, much of what once looked like "mental illness" transforms. What remains are the unique gifts we were always meant to offer.

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My approach

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I write, teach, and guide people through understanding:​

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• What mainstream mental health often misses about sensitive, traumatized, neurodivergent, gifted, and spiritually oriented individuals

• How trauma, nervous system dysregulation, and living inauthentically create symptoms that get misdiagnosed as primary psychiatric disorders​

• What evidence-based, holistic, and integrative therapies actually work for deep healing

• How to create your own personal path to recovery​

• How to approach the mental health system as an educated participant, not a passive patient

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​I'm not here to be your guru. I'm here as someone a few steps ahead on the path, turning around to say, "I see you. You're not alone. And there is a way through."

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The difference

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I bridge two worlds that rarely speak to each other: mainstream psychiatry and holistic healing. I understand the value of both and the limitations of each when used alone.

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I can help you navigate the system because I know it intimately. And I can guide you beyond it because I've walked that path myself.

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