About
A practice built around the whole of you.
Soma Psych is a telehealth psychiatry practice serving adults across New York, founded on a simple belief: mental health care works best when it treats the whole person.
You are not a diagnosis to be managed. You are a person to be understood.
The Soma Psych philosophy
Our practice
Psychiatry, with the body in the room.
Soma takes its name from the Greek word for the body. It is a daily reminder, built into the name of the practice, that mental health never exists apart from the rest of you, and your care shouldn't either.
Visits here are unhurried and collaborative. We take time to understand not just your symptoms, but your sleep, your stress, your relationships, and what feeling well would genuinely look like for you. Medication can be a powerful tool, and it's never the only one we reach for.
We see adults across New Yorkvia secure telehealth and work with most major insurance plans through Headway. Wherever you are in your journey, whether it's a first-ever appointment or a fresh start after years of care, you're welcome here.
Khyati Zala · PMHNP-BC, Founder
Meet our founder
A note from Khyati.
“I'm a board-certified Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, and I founded Soma Psych because I kept seeing the same gap: psychiatric care that treated symptoms without ever meeting the person carrying them.
My path to psychiatry ran through the whole body. I studied psychology first, then trained in nursing and practiced as a family nurse practitioner before specializing in psychiatric mental health. That order matters. I learned to care for the whole patient before I ever wrote a psychiatric treatment plan. Anxiety that lives in a tight chest, depression that shows up as exhaustion, focus that frays when sleep falls apart: the mind and body tell one story, and good care reads them together.
That conviction shapes how this practice works, from the length of our visits to the questions we ask. Wherever you are in your journey, we built Soma Psych for you.”
Founder's education & training
Post-Master's Certificate, Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
Sacred Heart University · Fairfield, CT
Master of Science in Nursing, Family Nurse Practitioner
Case Western Reserve University · Cleveland, OH
Master of Nursing
Case Western Reserve University · Cleveland, OH
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology
Hofstra University · Long Island, NY
How we practice
Four commitments, kept at every visit.
Unhurried by design
Longer visits, smaller caseloads, real conversation. You will never feel like a number in a queue.
Collaborative, always
You're the expert on your own life. Every diagnosis is explained, every option discussed, every decision shared.
Whole-person lens
Sleep, hormones, nutrition, movement, relationships: the body keeps score, so the body is part of the plan.
Medication with humility
Start low, go slow, reassess often. The right medication can change a life; the goal is the lowest effective support.
Soma Psych is growing. We are expanding our clinical team thoughtfully, with the same standards described above. Licensed psychiatric clinicians interested in joining the practice are welcome to get in touch.
Begin when you're ready.
Booking takes a few minutes through Headway, with insurance verified and your cost shown up front.