Arsalan Malik, MD

Dr. Arsalan Malik is a double board-certified, fellowship-trained Psychiatrist. In addition to his own practice, he is a volunteer clinical faculty at UCLA and an editor for the new journal Gender and Violence that launched in early 2014. He is an active member of many prestigious professional organizations including the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychoanalytic Association, and the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry.

Dr. Malik obtained specialized training in the new and burgeoning field of Integrative Psychiatry. In addition to ruling out the common medical and neurological causes of psychiatric illness he evaluates and forms a treatment strategy for issues like gut dysbiosis, inflammation, nutritional imbalance and food allergies that can often present with with psychiatric manifestations using nutritional medicine, mind-body approaches, meditation, herbs, supplements, lifestyle, diet and behavioral interventions.  Dr. Malik also has over 500 hours of clinical experience as medical director of residential treatment facilities for patients dually diagnosed with substance use disorders and psychiatric disorders.

Dr. Malik has published scientific papers on the use of CBT in depressed, medically ill populations and on the subject of primary prevention in geriatric psychiatry. Dr. Malik has a special interest in cultural and ethnic issues as they relate to psychiatric disorders, and focused on seeing immigrant and minority populations.