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Hina Fullar, MD

Adult Psychiatrist, Board Certified

Walnut Creek

✅ Accepting New Patients

💼 19 Years Experience

⭐ Highly Recommended

🕰️ Excellent Wait Time

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Getting to know Hina Fullar, MD

Dr. Hina Fullar is a board-certified adult psychiatrist licensed in California with extensive clinical experience across outpatient settings.

After completing medical education from Allama Iqbal Medical College in Pakistan, she completed her psychiatric residency training at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in New York. She also completed Public Psychiatry Fellowship at the New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center. Following her training, she worked for five years in New York City with a nonprofit organization that encompassed advocacy and mental health care for chronically unhoused individuals. Like many others, she was drawn by the natural beauty and sunshine of California, leading to relocation and practicing psychiatry in the Bay Area for the past ten years.

Her approach integrates evidence-based psychiatry with psychotherapy, lifestyle awareness, and meaning-centered care, in treating individuals navigating mood disorders, anxiety, life transitions, attentional difficulties, burnout, trauma, identity exploration, and the psychological impacts of our changing world. She has a special interest in working with individuals from diverse cultural, social, sexual, and ethnic backgrounds while cultivating cultural humility, guided by collaboration, respect and curiosity, that honors complexity and supports people in reconnecting with meaning and agency in their lives.

Medication, when used, is carefully considered and integrated with psychotherapy, education, and lifestyle supports.

Dr. Fullar also has over 4 years of experience in treating individuals with Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), which is an excellent treatment modality when psychiatric medications fall short due to side effects or lack of efficacy.

Her psychotherapy training includes Graduate Training in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Climate Psychology Certification and Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy principles. (Important Note: She does not prescribe or provide any psychedelic medicines that are not FDA-approved. Her role is supportive and educational—not facilitative.)

Focus Areas

Mood Swings
Self-Esteem Issues
Anxiety
Life Transitions
PTSD
Stress Management
Bereavement/Grief

Bipolar Disorder
Depression
Chronic Illness Adjustment
Women's Issues (Perinatal/Reproductive)

LGBTQ+ Issues
ADHD
Childhood Trauma
Climate Anxiety
guidance around Psychedelic - assisted psychotherapy

Clientele

LGBTQ+
Adults

Young Adults
Immigrants/ Refugees

Women (perimenopause/ menopause/ parenting/ caregiving)

Treatment Approaches

Psychodynamic Psychiatry: Utilizes psychoanalytic techniques to understand and treat mental disorders.
Reproductive Psychiatry: addresses the mental health needs of individuals during times of hormonal change, focusing on conditions and symptoms influenced by the menstrual cycle, pregnancy, postpartum period, infertility, and menopause.
Climate Psychology
Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy

Identity

Gender

Female

Languages

English

Urdu

Hindi

Insurance Providers

UMR
PHCS MultiPlan
Medicare
Carelon Health
VHP

ComPsych
Kaiser Permanente
Aetna
Cigna

BlueCross BlueShield
Magellan Health
TriWest
MHN

5.0

I was initially unsure of Dr. Atallah but he has proven himself to be a caring, considerate doctor that really goes the extra mile. He researches my spectrum of medical conditions and regularly suggests tweaks to improve the efficacy and safety of my Rx regimen. He’s very on top of messaging and medication requests. I feel heard with him and my care is collaborative.My initial reservations surrounded his very thorough, beyond the book onboarding procedures. It was a barrier to care while I was in acute need but I recognize the need to mitigate liability and confirm health status. If you’re in dire need of care he might not be the best choice because of the time needed for his onboarding procedures but if you’re stable I highly recommend.

5.0

Always helpful and very organized and professional. Highly recommend..

FAQs

1. What is your approach to working with patients?

I like to collaborate with my patients, establishing mutual respect and trust, then problem-solving together with curiosity to strive towards the vision patient had set forth. I take time to understand patient's history, values, relationships, and goals. Medication, when used, is carefully considered and integrated with psychotherapy, education, and lifestyle supports.

2. How do you integrate medication management?

Medication is approached as one tool among many, used thoughtfully and with attention to benefits, risks, and alternatives. My goal is to minimize unnecessary medication while maximizing wellbeing, avoiding polypharmacy when possible and supporting de-prescribing process when medications are excessive, in collaboration with the patient.

3. What types of concerns do you specialize in treating?

• Depression and mood disorders

• Anxiety disorders

• Trauma and stress-related conditions

• Burnout, moral injury, and occupational stress

• Parenting stress and caregiving-related transitions

• Identity development and life transitions

• Immigration- and acculturation-related stress

• Women’s mental health across the lifespan, including reproductive decision-making, perinatal mental health and perimenopause/ menopause

• LGBTQ+ affirming psychiatric care

• Climate anxiety, ecological grief, and moral distress

•. Psychedelic preparation and integration support (non-prescribing, educational and therapeutic)

4. What's something you want your patients to know about you?

I appreciate that every individual has all the complexity of universe bound within them and not just the symptom at hand.

5. What kinds of clients do you work with best?

I work primarily with adults from diverse cultural and social backgrounds who are:

• Experiencing anxiety, depression, or emotional overwhelm

• Navigating burnout, caregiving stress, or professional exhaustion

• Exploring identity, purpose, or life transitions

• Experiencing reproductive or hormonal mental health changes

• Interested in psychedelic preparation or integration support

• Feeling distress related to climate change and ecological concerns

6. Do you have experience with trauma or PTSD?

Yes. I have years of experience working with individuals who have sustained childhood trauma, domestic and community violence, intimate-partner abuse and workplace trauma.

7. What do you enjoy doing outside of work?

I enjoy traveling with my family, exploring different cultures, foods and flavors. I am involved with Climate Health Advocacy and spend most of my time outside work in climate advocacy with the community of like-minded health professionals.