GMC Number: 4720308
Dr Shamila has over 22 years’ experience in treating mental health conditions. She completed all her training at teaching hospitals in the highly competitive London area.
She has worked in the NHS since 2008 at the Chelsea & Westminster NHS Foundation Trust, then moving to West London Mental Health Trust until 2017.
She has led a ‘Crisis’ Team and liaison service, an Assertive Outreach Team and a Recovery Community Team. She also practises privately at The Nightingale in Marylebone.
She is specialised in the diagnosis and treatment of depression, anxiety, work-related issues and stress. She is also very experienced in assessing and treating ADHD in Adults, as well as women’s mental health in the peri-menopause/menopause.
She feels privileged to form close relationships with her clients and use a collaborative approach to addressing their mental health needs. Evidence-based integrative treatments are provided with empathy in a personalised manner. She provides a holistic approach to treatment and also incorporates a traditional approach of identifying biological, psychological and social aspects. Adjunct interventions include access to extensive psychotherapeutic interventions, pharmacological and complementary therapies if so appropriate.
She has a pioneering approach to psychiatry. She has already introduced personalised medicine into her practice, in the form of pharmacogenetic ‘Myogenes’ testing, which allows a more targeted and informed approach to medication choice.
She is also one of the first consultant psychiatrists in London using leading medical device, ‘Alpha-Stim’, a safe and extremely well tolerated FDA-approved treatment for anxiety, depression, insomnia and pain management.
Languages spoken: French and conversational Spanish.