Coral Gables, Florida
Psychiatric Evaluation in Coral Gables
In Coral Gables, mental health care collides with two forces: a culture where family reputation matters and struggles stay inside the house, and professional lives, law, medicine, the University, where a psychiatric record feels like a liability. So the anxiety gets managed with discipline and the depression with espresso, until neither works. The City Beautiful deserves care that understands both pressures. A psychiatric evaluation is how the guessing ends: one structured hour with a board certified clinician that produces a real diagnosis and a real plan. shrinkMD brings that hour to Coral Gables by secure video, as clinician availability allows.
Medically reviewed by Shariq Refai, MD, MBA, FAPA, board certified psychiatrist · Published June 7, 2026 · Last reviewed June 17, 2026 · Editorial policy
Why shrinkMD
Care built around Coral Gables
Our care is bilingual when you want it, culturally fluent always, and structurally private: no insurance claims, no databases, records that move only with your written authorization. Visits happen by video from your home off Miracle Mile or your office, never a waiting room.
UM students, faculty, and Gables professionals are seen within days, with continuity through summers, sabbaticals, and moves across any of our ten states.
What's included
Inside the evaluation hour
Real diagnosis takes time, so we protect a full 45 to 60 minutes. The hour covers your story chronologically, when symptoms started and what they've cost, plus structured screening across conditions, because depression, anxiety, trauma, attention problems, and sleep deprivation overlap from the inside. Medical mimics get ruled out rather than assumed away.
The most valuable history is your medication record: every psychiatric medication tried, at what dose, for how long, and with what response, including side effects. With that map, your clinician chooses what comes next instead of repeating what already failed. You end the hour with a diagnosis you understand, baseline symptom scores, a written direction, and treatment that starts immediately, often with same day prescriptions.
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Care and next steps in Coral Gables
Frequently asked questions
Good questions, clear answers
Can care be conducted in Spanish and respect how my family views these things?
Yes. Tell us your language and family context when booking; both shape clinician matching and how we plan treatment, from what we call things to who is in the room.
I am faculty at UM. Does anything touch university systems?
Nothing. We are entirely outside university and insurer systems, and your records are yours alone.
What should I've ready for the appointment?
Current medications and doses, your pharmacy, any past diagnoses, and most importantly every psychiatric medication you've tried with dose, duration, and response. That history guides everything.
What if I need more than telehealth can provide?
Then we tell you plainly and help arrange the right level of care. Knowing our limits is part of the clinical standard, not an exception to it.
Will I get a diagnosis at the first visit?
Usually yes, a working diagnosis and plan the same day. When something genuinely needs more information or records first, we say exactly what and why.
About Coral Gables
Coral Gables is home to about 49,000 residents. It's a Miami-area city built around the University of Miami and its academic medical center. Our patients here range across students, university and hospital staff, and professionals.
Serving Coral Gables
Care should reach every corner of Coral Gables. As Miami's historic, Mediterranean-style City Beautiful, Coral Gables stretches from Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, the Coral Gables Museum, and the Miracle Mile, and shrinkMD brings board-certified telepsychiatry to all of it by secure video, with the same psychiatrist over time.
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Start psychiatric evaluation in Coral Gables
Call 1-877-747-4656 now, appointments are available as soon as availability allows for Coral Gables residents, by secure video from home.
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