Psychiatric care for the person behind the symptoms.
Mental health rarely fits neatly into one diagnosis. At EMPATH Medicine, treatment begins with understanding the full picture: what you are feeling, what you have lived through, how your body is responding, what is happening in your relationships, school or work, and what you want your life to feel like.
Dr. Mariam Aboukar provides holistic, compassionate and integrative psychiatric care across the lifespan, combining medical expertise with psychotherapy, trauma-informed care, emotional intelligence, behavioral regulation, and thoughtful medication management when appropriate.
Care for different ages, identities, pressures and seasons of life.
EMPATH Medicine serves people across the lifespan while offering particular depth in the challenges faced by young people, students, professionals, medical trainees, families and survivors of trauma.
Children & adolescents
Support for emotional, behavioral, developmental, attention, mood, anxiety, trauma and family concerns with care tailored to age, development and environment.
College & graduate students
Specialized strategies for academic pressure, career uncertainty, relationships, identity, anxiety, depression, eating concerns, substance use and major life transitions.
Working professionals
Care for burnout, stress, mood changes, anxiety, attention concerns, sleep disruption, relationship strain and the pressure to keep functioning while struggling internally.
Physicians & medical trainees
Support for burnout, perfectionism, professional identity, emotional exhaustion, difficult training environments and the unique pressure of caring for others.
Trauma survivors
Trauma-informed psychiatric care for people whose sense of safety, nervous system, relationships or daily functioning have been affected by traumatic experiences.
Adults with layered concerns
Thoughtful evaluation when symptoms overlap, diagnoses feel unclear, treatment has been frustrating, or emotional and physical symptoms are deeply connected.
Care that recognizes the world around the patient.
Mental health does not happen in isolation. Family dynamics, school, culture, work, relationships, community and life experiences can all shape how someone feels and how treatment should be approached.
Some life experiences need more than a generic treatment plan.
Dr. Aboukar’s background spans child and adolescent psychiatry, psychosomatic medicine, student mental health, trauma care, emotional intelligence and academic medicine.
That means treatment can make room for the real context behind symptoms: school pressure, medical training, family systems, trauma, physical symptoms, identity, relationships, burnout and the stress of major transitions.
A broad psychiatric scope, made easier to explore.
Search by concern or choose a category. A diagnosis is only one part of the picture; each treatment recommendation is individualized after a psychiatric evaluation.
Treatment recommendations are individualized after psychiatric evaluation. The presence of a condition on this page does not guarantee that every presentation can be treated through telepsychiatry or within this practice setting.
More than medication. More than a label. A complete treatment conversation.
Treatment may include medication, psychotherapy, behavioral strategies, education, emotional intelligence work and attention to the broader life factors affecting mental health.
Dr. Aboukar draws from multiple evidence-based and insight-oriented approaches so care can be adapted to the person rather than forcing the person into one method.
A clear path without making you feel rushed.
You do not need to arrive knowing your diagnosis or exactly what treatment you need. The first step is understanding what has been happening and what kind of support makes sense.
Start with your story
Talk through what has been difficult, what has changed, what you have tried before, and what you hope will feel different.
EvaluationMake sense of the pattern
Explore symptoms, diagnoses, stressors, medical factors, relationships, routines and the bigger picture behind how you feel.
UnderstandingBuild the treatment plan
Discuss options such as therapy, medication, regulation strategies, behavioral changes, education and additional supports.
CollaborationAdjust as life changes
Treatment evolves over time. Progress, side effects, new stressors, goals and life transitions can all reshape the plan.
Ongoing careDifferent tools for different people and different moments.
Dr. Aboukar integrates therapeutic and psychiatric approaches based on clinical needs, goals, history and patient preference.
Specialized care that fits more naturally into real life.
EMPATH Medicine offers telepsychiatry with evening and weekend availability designed to better accommodate students, working professionals, parents, medical trainees and others with demanding schedules.
Services are currently offered in the states listed below, subject to clinical appropriateness and applicable licensure requirements.
You do not need to have everything figured out first.
Psychiatric care can feel intimidating when you are not sure what is wrong, what kind of treatment you need, or even how to explain what you have been feeling.
No. Many people come to psychiatric care because something feels wrong but they are not sure how to name it. The evaluation is designed to help clarify the pattern, understand the full context and discuss what kind of care may be appropriate.
No. Medication may be one part of treatment when appropriate, but Dr. Aboukar’s approach also incorporates psychotherapy, trauma-informed care, emotional intelligence, behavioral regulation, mind body considerations and the broader life factors affecting mental health.
Dr. Aboukar’s background includes child and adolescent psychiatry, and EMPATH Medicine provides care across the lifespan. Clinical appropriateness, the patient’s age, location and the type of concern are considered before establishing treatment.
Psychiatric consultation is part of the practice scope. A consultation can help review symptoms, prior diagnoses, current treatment, medication questions or a more complex clinical picture.
Dr. Aboukar’s training includes psychosomatic medicine and mind body care. When clinically appropriate, treatment can consider the relationship between emotional distress, physical symptoms, nervous-system responses and behavioral patterns.
The list reflects the practice’s stated services and conditions but cannot describe every individual presentation. You can contact EMPATH Medicine before scheduling to ask whether your concern is within the practice scope.
You deserve care that sees more than a diagnosis.
Whether you are reaching out for yourself, your child, your student, or because you have been carrying too much for too long, the first step can simply be a conversation.