Amit Suneja

Biography

Amit is a psychiatrist with varied experience in public health program implementation, design, and evaluation. He worked in the Counseling Services Department at the Chinle Service Unit in Navajo Nation in 2024 as part of the University of California at San Francisco’s Global Mental Health Fellowship. He currently works for a telepsychiatry company seeing patients on public insurance located in Montana and Idaho as well as engaging in ongoing global mental health projects, including development of a collaborative care training in collaboration with the World Health Organization and a perinatal mental health program to train community health workers in Nepal. His approach to practicing psychiatry  prioritizes client goals, utilizes psychotherapy, and is extremely collaborative, rooted in understanding personal as well as the larger social and environmental context, neurodivergence-affirming, gender-affirming, queer and trans-competent, and sex-worker positive. He is here for anyone out there for whom oversimplified binaries have led to inadequate, insensitive, ineffective, and/or harmful “care”.  His personal and professional experiences have given him deep insight into the harmful and often traumatic nature of the medical, mental health, and wellness industrial complexes, especially for Indigenous, Black, queer, trans, disabled, and poor people. In his practice, he actively resists and combats the status quo for “care” provided within these complexes, providing a space for healing and the processing of prior experiences and present reality without judgment or expectation.