Venkat Naga​

Dr. Venkat Naga holds M.B.B.S., F.R.A.N.Z.C.P. is a Consultant Psychiatrist who has been working in various community mental health centres around Auckland. He specialised in Adult Psychiatry with a focus on helping patients with anxiety, clinical depression, A.D.H.D, A.S.D and other mood disorders.

He is dedicated to reaching the underlying root cause of the symptoms and provides conservative but effective medication management to help balance life. With extensive work experience around N.Z. and Australia, Venkat has developed cultural competence and associated clinically relevant knowledge to treat a diverse population.

Venkat channels his energy into serving well-proven, traditional evidence-based treatments, but is also very comfortable with updating himself on the latest clinically proven innovative therapies like r T.M.S. and pharmacology

Venkat believes the Gut-Brain connection is real and is currently performing clinical research at the University of Auckland to understand the effect of probiotics in depression. Venkat’s particular interest lies in mindfulness, philosophy, and culture.