Shadithya Psychiatric Clinic, Thoraipakkam

Shadithya Psychiatric Clinic and Child Therapy Centre is a mental health practice at Sri Sai Nagar in Thoraipakkam, Chennai. It is a unit of Shadithya Hospital at Pallavaram and operates 24 hours a day.Child and adolescent mental health is the centre's main focus. A multidisciplinary team assesses and treats children with psychological difficulties, behavioural problems, learning difficulties and neurological conditions, and the service includes a child and adolescent psychiatric unit and a mother and baby unit.Therapy services cover clinical psychology and psychotherapy, counselling psychology, occupational therapy including paediatric occupational therapy, speech therapy, and special education for children with intellectual disability.Adult psychiatry covers anxiety and mood disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress, phobias, sleep and stress difficulties, and addiction and de-addiction therapy.A memory clinic handles dementia assessment and care.The centre has both outpatient and inpatient departments, a rehabilitation unit, an inpatient unit for psychiatric emergencies, a home treatment team for patients who cannot attend in person, and a vocational training centre. Counselling is also available online.Shadithya Psychiatric Clinic is located at 2, Sri Sai Nagar, Thoraipakkam, Chennai. Thoraipakkam sits on Rajiv Gandhi Salai, the OMR IT corridor, between Perungudi and Sholinganallur. The corridor's working population is young and largely made up of people living away from their families, which is the group least likely to have local support when mental health difficulties arise, and the centre is reachable along the OMR from Perungudi, Karapakkam and Navalur.