About the practice
About Sattva Psychiatry
Psychiatric evaluation grounded in context and clinical judgment.
Sattva Psychiatry is a physician-led telepsychiatry practice for adults seeking diagnostic clarity, personalized medication treatment, and a better understanding of the patterns shaping their symptoms.
Vivek Jayadeva, MD
Board-Certified Psychiatrist
Physician
Vivek Jayadeva, MD
Board-certified psychiatrist.
Dr. Vivek Jayadeva completed psychiatry residency through the Harvard South Shore Psychiatry Residency Program, where he served as Chief Resident, and fellowship training at the University of Washington.
His clinical background includes psychiatry, telepsychiatry, interdisciplinary pain medicine, and medication treatment across community, urban, rural, and Veterans Affairs settings.
That experience informs an approach that considers symptoms in relation to emotional life, temperament, medical history, sleep, stress, medication effects, treatment response, and day-to-day functioning.
His clinical style is informed by psychodynamic psychotherapy training, including attention to emotional patterns, relationships, identity, and the meaning symptoms can carry over time. Medication decisions are guided by evidence, safety, prior response, side effects, tolerability, and the patient’s goals.
Training & credentials
Medical training and board certification.
Education & Training
- Fellowship: Pain Medicine — University of Washington, Seattle
- Residency: Psychiatry — Harvard South Shore Psychiatry Residency Program
- Chief Resident: Harvard South Shore Psychiatry Residency Program
- Medical School: St. George’s University School of Medicine
- Undergraduate: B.S. in Biology — The George Washington University
Board Certification
- Psychiatry: American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
- Pain Medicine: American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
Clinical style
A treatment style centered on understanding.
Psychiatric evaluation often involves piecing together seemingly separate parts of a person’s life — symptoms, temperament, relationships, stressors, medical history, medication response, and personal history — into a clearer clinical formulation.
The goal is for patients to feel seen, heard, and understood while developing a practical treatment plan that fits their symptoms, values, and goals.
This practice may fit well for patients who are interested in self-understanding, open to reflection, and willing to let the treatment process develop over time.
Approach
What shapes treatment decisions.
Clinical synthesis
Evaluation considers current symptoms, personal history, temperament, stressors, medical context, substance use, sleep, functioning, and prior treatment response.
Shared decision-making
Treatment decisions are made together, with attention to evidence, safety, side effects, tolerability, prior response, and what feels realistic for the patient.
Psychopharmacologic depth
Medication treatment is approached with attention to diagnosis, dosing, side effects, interactions, medical history, prior trials, and whether medication is likely to address the current problem.
Psychodynamic psychotherapy training
Treatment is informed by attention to emotional patterns, relationships, defenses, identity, internal conflict, and the ways symptoms can carry meaning in a person’s life.
Training across settings
Depth and breadth matter in psychiatric treatment.
Experience across community, rural, urban, Veterans Affairs, and telepsychiatry settings helps inform treatment decisions that are clinically grounded, practical, and individualized.
Different settings teach different lessons: how symptoms present across populations, how treatment plans succeed or fail in real life, how medical and psychiatric factors interact, and how to adjust treatment when the first answer is not the right one.
Name
Why “Sattva.”
The name Sattva refers to clarity, steadiness, and balance.
Those qualities reflect the practice’s approach: clear thinking, measured medication use, emotionally attuned treatment, and planning grounded in the person’s history, symptoms, and goals.
Next step
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