About
Learn more about our doctors training, experience, and approach to care.
Dr. Sindhura Suryadevara is a Board-Certified Psychiatrist with specialized training in adult, child, adolescent, and forensic psychiatry.
Her private practice allows for attentive and thoughtful care for each person. She takes an approach that builds on strengths while supporting vulnerabilities, integrating evidence-based medication and therapy to foster overall functioning and resilience. Taking a collaborative approach, she partners with specialists, therapists, and educational teams to ensure comprehensive care. Her individualized treatment plans prioritize conservative medication use while considering environmental factors, overall health, self-care, nutrition, and social-emotional well-being. Psychotherapy is also a core component of her practice, supporting each person’s identity, goals, and cultural background through evidence-based therapies that complement medication.
Through this integrated approach, Dr. Suryadevara combines medication, psychotherapy, lifestyle guidance, and collaborative care to foster meaningful behavioral change, emotional growth, and overall resilience.
Dr. Suryadevara graduated from The University of Georgia with a degree in Psychology, and later earned her medical degree with honors from Xavier University School of Medicine. She completed her residency in General Psychiatry at Jamaica Hospital in Queens, New York, followed by a fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Upstate University in Syracuse, where she was selected as Chief Fellow in recognition of her exceptional clinical care and leadership. Additionally, she completed a fellowship in Forensic Psychiatry at Emory University, gaining experience in both the juvenile and adult justice systems, including family law, child advocacy, and mitigation.
With over a decade of clinical experience, Dr. Suryadevara has worked in outpatient clinics, inpatient hospitals, community psychiatry services, partial hospitalization programs, residential facilities, and forensic systems. Through these experiences, she has supported individuals and families navigating mood and anxiety disorders, suicidal and self-injurious behaviors, neurodevelopmental disorders, heightened emotional expressivity, behavioral challenges, autoimmune and genetic conditions, high conflict situations, trauma, adoption, foster care, disordered eating, school avoidance, and complex life transitions.
She is a member of the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Psychiatry and Law, the American Academy of the Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Association, the American Psychiatric Association, as well as the Georgia Psychiatric Physicians Association.
Dr. Suryadevara is currently licensed in the state of Georgia. For established patients, Dr. Suryadevara offers telepsychiatry (video-conference) appointments on an individual basis. She is currently accepting new patients and looks forward to working with you.
Dr. Carly Hanks is a licensed clinical psychologist. She completed her undergraduate degree in psychology at Pepperdine University and her doctorate in clinical psychology from Palo Alto University. Dr. Hanks completed her APA accredited pre-doctoral internship and post-doctoral fellowship at the Atlanta VA Health Care System. She worked at the VA from 2019-2026 and held numerous positions including, outpatient psychotherapist, LGBTQ+ Care Coordinator, perinatal mental health psychologist, and Assistant Training Director of the psychology internship program.
She is specialized in the treatment of trauma, anxiety, depression, women’s health, fertility issues and family planning, and working with members of the LGBTQ+ community. In addition, she often helps individuals break unhealthy relationship patterns, build confidence, self-esteem and self-worth, process grief and loss, and work through life role and identity transitions. Dr. Hanks’ approach to therapy is both supportive and direct, tailored to your individual needs.
She strives to create a safe, affirming, compassionate, non-judgmental space, that allows individuals to take an honest look inward in an effort to understand themselves more completely. Her primary goal is to meet you where you are and guide you to where you want to be.
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Our doctors are accepting new patients and looking forward to meeting you.