Sound Minds Psychiatrist in Midlothian, TX
Psychiatrist in Midlothian, TX, care that begins at your own kitchen table.
Psychiatric evaluations, medication management and therapy for adults and teenagers across 76065, by encrypted video to Lawson Farms, The Grove, Shiloh Forest and every address in between, or in person about 35 minutes up US‑287 at our Grand Prairie office. Most new patients are seen within days, not seasons.
Checking the clock…
Weekdays 9am to 6pm, Saturdays 10am to 4pm, Central time.
Bars show the published clinic hours, not live appointment inventory. The real calendar lives on the booking page.
Ellis County has grown far faster than its behavioural-health capacity. We hold new-patient time open on purpose, because a four-month quote is the moment most people quietly give up.
If that is how you want it. Evaluation, follow-ups and dose changes all run over HIPAA-compliant video. Two narrow exceptions, stated before you book: SPRAVATO, and a small number of controlled medications.
Midlothian psychiatry, without the drive being the point.
Sound Minds Psychiatry and Wellness treats adults and teenagers in Midlothian, Texas by secure video anywhere in the state, and in person at one office, 2100 N Hwy 360, Ste 405B in Grand Prairie, about 35 minutes north of 76065 via US‑287 and SH‑360. We provide psychiatric evaluations, medication management, therapy, GeneSight genetic testing, Creyos cognitive testing for ADHD, BrainView neural scans and SPRAVATO for treatment-resistant depression. We are in-network with more than twenty insurance carriers, publish self-pay rates, and usually see new patients within days. Call (817) 755-5707 or book online.
What the drive actually costs
That ratio is the whole argument. When the round trip costs more than twice the appointment, the drive stops being a detail and starts being the reason people stop going. So we made it optional.
There is no Sound Minds clinic on Main Street.
One practice, one office, and we would rather write that down than let you discover it after booking. What we do have is a video door that opens from any address in Texas, a schedule with late afternoons and a Saturday clinic in it, and the same clinicians on both sides of it.
- Same clinician by video as in the room
- Nothing recorded, ever
- Benefits verified before the first visit, not estimated
Three steps, and none of them is a waiting list.
No referral is required. No intake questionnaire stands between you and a real appointment.
Choose a time
Reserve a slot yourself on the booking page in about a minute, or call and speak to someone who will start from the hours you actually have free rather than reading you a list. Tell us whether you would rather be seen by video or in Grand Prairie, both are open to you from the first appointment.
Book nowWe check the benefit first
Before you sit down, the office runs your coverage, because the behavioural-health benefit on a card rarely matches the medical benefit printed next to it, and finding that out afterwards is how a first visit turns into a grievance. Self-pay rates are published if you would rather no claim existed at all.
Ask us to verifyA full hour, and a written plan
The first appointment is a conversation, not a form recited back at you. You should leave able to say the diagnosis in your own words, holding a plan you helped choose. Nothing is prescribed on the way past a front desk.
What an evaluation covers
Two things make the first hour count for double
- Everything you currently take, including supplements
- What has already been tried, at what dose, and why it stopped
Neither is required to book. The second one is the most useful thing you own and it is routinely never asked for.
Start from what is actually wrong, not from a menu.
Pick the line closest to your week. It will tell you what the first appointment would most likely look at, and take you straight to the page that explains it.
Which of these is nearest the truth right now?
Every one of these starts the same way
With a full psychiatric evaluation, about an hour, by video or in Grand Prairie, because the first job is working out which of these you are actually dealing with. Choose a line above and this will get more specific.
This is a signpost, not a diagnosis, and nothing you tap is stored or sent anywhere. Diagnosis happens in the appointment, with a clinician.
United Healthcare, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, Aetna, Anthem, Optum, Medicare, Medicaid and more. Self-pay rates are published. We verify your specific plan before the first visit rather than guessing at it.
Four things that make up most of the work.
Everything below is available by video to any address in Texas, and in person in Grand Prairie if you would rather be in the room.
Psychiatric evaluation
The starting pointAbout an hour of genuine history-taking: how long this has run, what it has cost you, what has been tried and why each attempt ended, how you sleep, what you drink, what is really being carried at work and at home. It ends in a written plan you helped choose, which may be medication, may be therapy, may be testing, and may be a deliberate decision to watch and review.
Read moreMedication management
Adjusted, not just renewedA prescription is a hypothesis, and a hypothesis needs checking. Follow-ups are scheduled close enough together that a dose gets adjusted while it still matters, side effects named out loud, interactions with whatever else you take reviewed properly, and a clear answer on how long to give something before we call it. Refills do not depend on a drive up 287.
Read moreTherapy and counselling
Alongside, or insteadMedication moves the floor; therapy changes what you do with the room. For a good number of people the right answer involves no prescription at all, and we will say so. Sessions run by video or in person, and the therapy and prescribing sides of your care talk to each other rather than operating as two unrelated appointments.
Read moreTelehealth across Texas
The front door for 76065For Midlothian this is not the consolation prize, it is the sensible default. The platform is built for clinical use rather than everyday video calling, nothing is recorded, and a visit taken from a closed home office is the same appointment as one taken in a chair in Grand Prairie, same clinician, same length, same plan, same prescription.
Read moreWhat people in 76065 actually walk in with.
Nine conditions cover the overwhelming majority of what comes through the door. Each links to the full page on the main site.
Anxiety & panic
The commonest reason anyone books here. Often it arrives disguised as something physical, a heart that will not settle on the 287 on-ramp, a chest that tightens before a Monday that has not happened yet, a body that has forgotten what a resting state feels like.
02Depression
Rarely the version in the brochure. More often it is a competent person still doing the school run, still closing the quarter, still turning up at the Conference Center on a Thursday, and feeling nothing about any of it.
03ADHD, adult and adolescent
A great many adult evaluations start sideways, a parent sits through a Midlothian ISD assessment for their child and recognises an uncomfortably precise account of their own school years. Creyos testing gives measurements rather than a checklist.
04Treatment-resistant depression
Two adequate trials have failed and the next suggestion is another name off the same list. This is where the testing and SPRAVATO below stop being extras and start being the actual plan.
05Bipolar disorders
Frequently treated as unipolar depression for years first, because the high weeks felt like finally being well and nobody thought to ask about them. Getting this right changes which medications are safe.
06PTSD & trauma recovery
For first responders, veterans, plant and rail workers, and anyone carrying a single afternoon that will not stay in the past. Treated at the pace you set, and never by requiring you to retell it before you are ready.
07OCD
Not tidiness. Intrusive thoughts that arrive uninvited and rituals that cost real hours, usually carried privately for years before anyone says it out loud to a clinician.
08Sleep disorders & insomnia
Both a symptom and an engine. Treat the sleep and a surprising amount of what looked like depression, anxiety or attention deficit begins to loosen on its own.
09General mental health
For when nothing on this list fits cleanly and you simply want someone qualified to look at the whole picture once, properly, and tell you what they see.
Four ways to stop guessing.
Most people never need any of these. If two reasonable attempts have already failed, they are the difference between a fifth guess and an actual measurement.
GeneSight genetic testing
A cheek swabReports how your genes affect the way you metabolise specific psychiatric compounds , which is why one person is flattened by a standard dose and another feels nothing at all on it. It does not name the right medication. It narrows the field considerably, and it explains a history that otherwise reads as bad luck.
Read moreCreyos cognitive testing
Measured, not tickedScored tasks for attention, working memory and processing speed. It is firmer ground than a symptom checklist that any exhausted, overextended adult would tick straight down, and it is just as useful when it rules ADHD out and points at sleep, alcohol or untreated anxiety instead.
Read moreBrainView neural scan
Recorded activityA non-invasive recording of neural activity, used where the clinical picture is genuinely ambiguous, when attention, mood and the aftermath of a head injury are tangled together and the history alone cannot separate them.
Read moreSPRAVATO (esketamine)
On site onlyA licensed option for treatment-resistant depression once two adequate antidepressant trials have failed, and we are a certified treatment center for it. This is the one service that cannot be done from Midlothian by video: it is administered and monitored in Grand Prairie, with someone driving you home afterwards.
Read moreBoth are real appointments. One involves 287.
Midlothian sits far enough south that we will not pretend the office is around the corner. Here is the honest comparison.
Secure video, anywhere in Texas
Texas law permits psychiatric evaluation, therapy and the large majority of prescribing to be delivered by telehealth, and for patients an hour south of the office that is not a compromise, it is the difference between care that survives a busy month and care that quietly lapses. You will need a phone, tablet or laptop and a door that closes. There is no app to install and nothing is recorded.
- First evaluations, follow-ups and dose adjustments all included
- Prescriptions sent to your pharmacy in Midlothian or Waxahachie
- Exceptions named up front: SPRAVATO, and some controlled medications
2100 N Hwy 360, Ste 405B
Grand Prairie, TX 75050
From central Midlothian it is roughly 35 minutes: US‑287 north, then SH‑360 north, a little longer if you hit the afternoon build-up around Arlington. Parking is free and the suite is on one level. Some people come in for the first evaluation to put a face to the voice, then switch to video for everything after it, that is a perfectly normal pattern here, and nobody will ask you to justify it.
A small team, on purpose.
Board-certified psychiatric nurse practitioners with a supervising psychiatrist behind them. Small enough that the person who did your evaluation is the person who adjusts the dose in November.
Anselm Onyeneke
APRN, PMHNP-BCBoard-certified psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner. Medically reviewed this page.
Adaobi Egwuonwu
APRN, PMHNP-BCEvaluations, medication management and therapy for adults and adolescents.
Kennie Adebayo
MSN, APRN, PMHNPPsychiatric nurse practitioner, seeing new patients by telehealth and in Grand Prairie.
Dr. Azeza Uddin, MD
Supervising psychiatristPhysician oversight across the practice, including the complex and treatment-resistant cases.
Adaora Okeke, RN, BSN, is the office manager, the person who verifies your benefit, finds the slot that actually fits your week, and answers the phone when you call (817) 755-5707. Most of what makes a practice bearable to deal with happens at her desk rather than in the consulting room.
What care usually looks like for Ellis County patients.
I had the referral for eleven months. Every practice I rang quoted me into next spring, so I stopped ringing. Here I was seen on a Thursday at half five, from my own study, and I did not have to tell the whole story twice to get there.
Three prescribers, five medications, and not one of them ever asked why the first one stopped working. The genetic test answered that in a fortnight, and the plan we built afterwards was the first one I could actually explain to my wife.
Every appointment we were offered for our daughter collided with practice, and a drive up 287 at four o'clock was never going to happen more than once. A video visit at 4:45 solved something I had privately written off.
* Illustrative stories, written to show how care typically runs; names and details are not those of real patients. Individual results vary.
In-network with 20+ plans, and we check before you come.
Type a carrier to see whether it is on the list. Whatever the answer, the office verifies your specific plan before the first visit rather than estimating it.
22 carriers in-network. Start typing to check yours.
No exact match in that list, which does not settle it. Plans are administered under names that never appear on the card, and out-of-network benefits often still cover a good part of the visit. Send the card details to Info@soundmindspsych.com and the office will check properly.
We never promise coverage for a specific patient from a logo grid. Being in-network with a carrier and your particular plan covering a particular visit are two different questions, and only the second one matters on the day.
Midlothian, and the rest of Ellis County.
In and around 76065
Midlothian sits where US‑287 crosses US‑67, which is why it has grown the way it has, half an hour from downtown Dallas, forty minutes from Fort Worth, and still a town where the Friday night result matters. We see people from the newer master-planned streets and from the places that were here long before them: Lawson Farms, The Grove, Shiloh Forest, the older blocks either side of Main Street and Avenue F, the acreage out along FM‑663 and FM‑1387.
And the county around it
Telehealth reaches every address in Texas, so the county line is not a boundary for anything except the drive. Patients come to us from right across this corner of the metroplex.
What people ask before they book.
Ask the office directly
A two-minute phone call settles most of what a page like this cannot, whether your plan is covered, whether a particular medication can be handled by video, and what time on a Tuesday is genuinely free.
Anything clinical belongs on the phone or in the appointment rather than in an inbox, email is not a secure channel, and none of that detail is needed in order to book.
You could be seen this week.
Not on a list, not after an assessment call, and not in the new year. Pick a time that fits the week you actually have, from your own house in Midlothian, or in the room in Grand Prairie if you would rather make the drive.
