Akanksha Thakur, MD

Dr. Thakur strives to provide compassionate and effective care to her patients by understanding their perspectives and goals, and considering their individual, family, and social contexts. She utilizes a variety of medical and psychological interventions, with an emphasis on evidence-based practices. She believes in the therapeutic power of positive relationships.

Dr. Thakur is board certified in child and adolescent psychiatry and general psychiatry. She has experience in evaluating and treating the gamut of psychiatric issues that may arise across the life span, including mood problems, anxiety, trauma, oppositionality, and psychosis. She believes that all people, including children, deserve respect and voice.

Dr. Thakur's interests include cultural mental health and psychodynamics, and she teaches courses in these areas for Tulane Psychiatry trainees. She works in the Tulane Early Psychosis Intervention Clinic and Jefferson Parish School Based Health Centers, and she maintains a general and child psychiatry and psychotherapy practice at Tulane. Dr. Thakur also appreciates dance, music, travel, nature, and food.