Psychiatric Care in Groton, CT — Serving the Military Community and Everyone Who Calls This Corner of CT Home

Groton is defined in large part by Naval Submarine Base New London — and by the military families, veterans, and defense workers who've built their lives here along the Thames River. That community carries a distinctive set of mental health needs. Deployments. Reintegration stress. PTSD that doesn't fit neatly into what civilians tend to experience. The weight of serving in a high-stakes environment and then returning to ordinary life. Sindhia Shyras, APRN at Elite Health LLC is a board-certified Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner with nine-plus years of experience treating PTSD, depression, anxiety, ADHD, and other conditions — and she's accepting new patients from Groton via telehealth right now.

PTSD: It Doesn't Always Look Like the Movies

Post-traumatic stress disorder gets a lot of public attention — but the way it's depicted rarely matches what most people actually experience. PTSD isn't always flashbacks and nightmares, though it can be those things. It's also hypervigilance that makes it hard to relax anywhere. Emotional numbness that makes people around you feel like you've gone somewhere far away. Irritability that comes out of nowhere and damages relationships. Sleep that never feels safe. Avoidance patterns that shrink your world without you quite noticing. Sindhia has experience evaluating and treating PTSD in adults — including in those for whom military service is the context. She approaches it clinically and without judgment.

More Than PTSD — The Full Range of Psychiatric Care

The Groton community extends well beyond the base. Long-time Connecticut residents, healthcare workers at Lawrence + Memorial, teachers, tradespeople, families who've lived in New London County for generations — all of them face the same psychiatric conditions that affect everyone else: depression, anxiety, ADHD, bipolar disorder, OCD, panic disorder, insomnia, mood disorders. Sindhia treats all of these. Her approach starts with a thorough psychiatric evaluation, then builds a plan that might include medication management, supportive therapy, or both — depending on what you actually need.

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