Husky Health Psychiatrist Serving Ansonia, CT

Ansonia sits in the lower Naugatuck Valley — a tight-knit city that's seen a lot over the years. People here work hard and don't always have time to chase down mental health care, especially when half the practices they call don't take Medicaid. That's the gap we're trying to close. Elite Health LLC is in-network with Husky Health and actively accepting new patients from Ansonia. Sindhia Shyras, APRN, is a board-certified Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner with nine years of experience treating depression, anxiety, PTSD, ADHD, bipolar disorder, and more. She sees patients via telehealth anywhere in Connecticut and in person at our New Britain office — about fifteen minutes up Route 72 from Ansonia.

What Husky Health Covers for Mental Health

Husky Health covers psychiatric evaluations, ongoing medication management, and telehealth psychiatry — all the core services Sindhia provides. Most Husky A and Husky D members pay $0 or a very small copay. That's not a marketing claim; it's how the program works. Connecticut's mental health parity law means your mental health benefits can't be treated worse than your physical health benefits. So if Husky covers a specialist visit for a blood pressure issue, it covers a specialist visit for depression too. No referral from your primary care doctor required. If your plan needs prior authorization for ongoing medication management, we handle that on our end.

How Appointments Actually Work

Your first appointment is a full psychiatric evaluation — not a ten-minute intake form with a stranger who barely looks up. Sindhia takes roughly sixty minutes to go through your history, current symptoms, sleep, what's changed, what you've tried before. From that conversation she puts together a real treatment plan. That might include medication, supportive therapy woven into follow-up visits, or both — depending on what makes sense for you specifically. Follow-ups are scheduled around how you're responding. If something isn't right between visits, you reach out and we adjust. That's what ongoing care is supposed to look like.

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