Anxiety Psychiatrist Serving New London, CT

New London is a coastal city with a complicated identity — part maritime history, part Coast Guard Academy, part working-class port town, part a place that's been trying to find its footing for decades. If you live here, you already know: New London can be beautiful and it can be hard, sometimes in the same week. Military families stationed at the Coast Guard Academy carry their own particular kind of anxiety — the deployments, the constant relocations, the "we'll figure it out" pressure that builds up over years. But you don't have to be affiliated with the Academy to be carrying a lot. The pressures of a coastal city where economic opportunity is uneven show up in people's nervous systems. Sindhia Shyras, APRN — board-certified Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner with nine years in practice — sees New London patients through telehealth anywhere in Connecticut and in-person at our New Britain office.

Anxiety in a Military and Coastal Community

If you or someone in your family serves, anxiety looks different. It can show up as hypervigilance that doesn't turn off back home. As the slow-burn stress of waiting. As the partner at home carrying everything while the other person is gone. But even outside the military community, New London has its pressures — and anxiety doesn't always announce itself. Sometimes it's just the inability to feel settled anywhere. The sense that something's about to go wrong. The sleep that's never quite restful. Sindhia — who's been doing this work long enough to have seen anxiety take all of its forms — starts with your specific experience, not a template. She accepts Aetna, Cigna, Husky Health, Medicaid, United Healthcare, Anthem, ConnectiCare, and self-pay.

What Your First Visit Looks Like

Your first appointment with Sindhia is a full psychiatric evaluation — about an hour, and it's a real conversation. She wants to understand how long you've been dealing with this, how it shows up in your daily life, whether panic is in the picture, what you've tried before, and what's going on at home or at work more broadly. That context matters. From there she builds a care plan that's specific to you — medication if that's the right direction, supportive therapy, or a combination. Follow-ups are built in from the beginning so your care can shift as things do.

Telehealth Makes Sense for New London

The drive from New London to our New Britain office is about an hour — doable, but not always convenient. Telehealth is a full alternative: secure video call, complete evaluation, prescription management, follow-ups. Everything an in-person visit covers. For military families especially, who may be balancing irregular schedules and frequent changes, not having to drive an hour for a follow-up is a real advantage. You can see Sindhia from anywhere in Connecticut.

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