About Dr. Jayadeva
Vivek Jayadeva, MD
Dr. Jayadeva is a board-certified psychiatrist and pain-medicine physician who created Sattva Psychiatry around thoughtful assessment, individualized treatment, and sustained physician care.
His psychiatric training emphasized psychotherapy and medication as related parts of treatment rather than entirely separate services. His approach begins with what a person hopes treatment will help them understand or change.
Sattva Psychiatry was developed as a small physician-led practice where care could account for symptoms, recurring patterns, medical context, and the circumstances in which difficulties occur.
New-patient scheduling is currently paused. The practice is not accepting new evaluation requests or maintaining a waiting list at this time.
Background
A wider foundation for psychiatric care
Dr. Jayadeva’s path to psychiatry began before medical school. He trained in holistic health and worked in massage therapy and bodywork, gaining early experience with how stress, pain, movement, and emotion may be expressed through the body.
His later training in psychiatry, psychotherapy, and multidisciplinary pain medicine added a physician’s understanding of diagnosis, medication, medical contributors, and function.
Experience with whole-food nutrition, mindfulness meditation, yoga, running, and strength training has also shaped the questions he considers in clinical work. These perspectives inform the practice but are not imposed as a fixed lifestyle program.
This background supports a broader view of what may affect mental health while remaining selective about what is clinically relevant.
Treatment approach
Care guided by the patient’s goals
Treatment begins by identifying what a person hopes will be different if care is successful. That provides direction while leaving room for understanding to develop over time.
Medication may reduce symptoms or create more room for change. Psychotherapy may help identify recurring patterns, challenge blind spots, and support choices that are more deliberate and consistent with a person’s values.
Nonjudgmental
Symptoms and coping patterns are understood in context rather than treated as character flaws.
Strengths-based
Care can build on capacities already present, including adaptations that may once have been useful but have become costly over time.
Purposeful
Goals can be revisited as treatment develops so that insight, medication decisions, and changes in daily life remain connected to what the patient wants to accomplish.
Depending on the person, treatment may also consider sleep, movement, substance use, technology habits, relationships, or daily structure. These areas are addressed when they are relevant to the clinical problem rather than delivered as a standard program.
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Medical and psychiatric background
Dr. Jayadeva’s medical training provides the foundation for diagnostic assessment, medication decisions, risk evaluation, and recognition of medical factors that may affect psychiatric symptoms.
- Board certification
- Psychiatry and Pain Medicine
- Psychiatry residency
- Harvard South Shore Psychiatry Residency Program
- Chief residency
- Harvard South Shore Psychiatry Residency Program
- Pain-medicine fellowship
- University of Washington
- Medical degree
- St. George’s University School of Medicine
- Medical licensure
- Virginia, Washington, DC, and New York
Current practice availability
Information about Dr. Jayadeva’s background, clinical approach, services, and practice policies remains available for reference.
Sattva Psychiatry is not currently accepting new patients. Online scheduling is disabled, and no waiting list or estimated reopening date is being maintained.