Board Certified Adult Psychiatrist

Walnut Creek

✅ Accepting New Patients

💼 17+ Years Experience

⭐ Highly Recommended

🕰️. Excellent Wait Time

5.00

Excellent and efficient. On top of all of the important factors. I look forward to our next conversation

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Getting to know Vikrant Mittal, M.D.

Dr. Vikrant Mittal is a board-certified psychiatrist and a Diplomate American Board of Psychiatry Neurology (ABPN). He studied Master in Hospital Administration from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. And clinical residency at Tufts University and Yale University.

Dr Mittal has over 20 years of experience in clinical, teaching and administrative psychiatry in USA. He has been in varied roles as Medical Director, Chairman of psychiatry and Chief Medical Officer with U.S. Pennsylvania Department of Human Services. He has published various peer reviewed article in US journals and book chapters mainly in psychopharmacology and geriatric psychiatry.

Dr. Mittal mainly practices outpatient adult psychiatry.

Focus Areas

Bipolar Disorder
Depression

Mood Swings

Anxiety

Clientele

Adults

Treatment Approaches

Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry: Provides psychiatric services to patients in other medical specialties
Geriatric Psychiatry: Focuses on the mental health of older adults.
Emergency Psychiatry: Provides psychiatric care in emergency settings.

Identity

Gender

Male

Languages Spoken

English Hindi

Insurance Providers

UMR
PHCS MultiPlan
Medicare
Carelon Health
VHP

ComPsych
Kaiser Permanente
Aetna
Cigna

BlueCross BlueShield
Magellan Health
TriWest
MHN

FAQs

1. What is your approach to working with patients?

Empathetic

2. How do you integrate medication management?

Evidence-based

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

Mood disorders

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

Will work hard with you

5. What do you believe is the most important part of the healing process?

Shared responsibility

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

engaged and wanting help

7. Do you have experience with trauma or PTSD?

Yes

8. What do you enjoy doing outside of work?

Movies, Nature