Dr. Damanjit Kaur

Dr. Damanjit Kaur is a specialist psychiatrist with over 15 years of clinical experience managing mental health conditions in outpatient, inpatient, and emergency settings. She trained in psychiatry (MD, Psychiatry) and holds an MBBS qualification, supplemented by advanced management training in healthcare. She is based at Burjeel in Abu Dhabi and brings extensive expertise from her work across India, including co-founding a psychiatric hospital and leading mental health services.

She specializes in adult psychiatry, addiction treatment, and crisis intervention. Her clinical work includes diagnosing and treating depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, personality disorders, and substance use problems. She offers medication management, brief psychological therapies based on cognitive-behavioural principles, addiction and relapse prevention programmes, family counselling, and mental health screening. She also assesses suicide risk and provides emergency psychiatric support for patients in medical or surgical care settings.

Dr. Kaur is known for a structured, compassionate approach centred on evidence-based care and personalized recovery plans. She has authored research on addiction management and mental health in young adults. A registered member of the Indian Psychiatric Society, Indian Medical Association, and Indian Association of Private Psychiatry, she has also held leadership roles in clinical governance and mental health policy.