About Us

BOB KALANI MD             &            SIMI KALANI NPP

Welcome to SB PSYCHIATRIC SERVICES, team of Dr. Bob Kalani M.D. and psychiatric nurse practitioner Simi Kalani NP. We are here for All Your Psychiatric and Mental Health Issues. We treat adults, adolescents and children. We are accepting new patients for psychiatric /psychological consultations, assessments and treatments.

Services We Provide

  • Medication management
  • Individual, couple’s and family counseling
  • Psychotherapy
  • Alternative and Complimentary Therapies
  • Gestalt therapy
  • Cognitive behavioral therapy
  • Coaching

The mission of our practice is to provide Person-Centered Care and empower our clients with the knowledge and skills to achieve their desirable goals. We have had the satisfaction of seeing 100s of our clients achieve success and their lives changed through the shared partnership and treatment planning with us. Unlike the traditional mental health practitioner who focuses on only the problems or deficits and dominates the treatment decision making, we focus on client strengths, empowerment and choices, preventive, skill acquisition, quality-of-life. We like to talk to our clients, our clients feel they are heard and understood. We won’t just hand you a prescription and say goodbye.

Dr. Kalani is a board-certified psychiatrist with more than 30 years of experience in providing psychiatric services in both, public and private mental health settings. Dr Kalani has  extensive experience with the treatment of psychiatric, psychological and mental health problems.  His expertise is in treating both adult and childhood Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Depressive/ Mood Disorders.  In addition, he treats Anxiety disorders, Tics and Tourette’s Disorders, Life Stressors and Adjustment Problems, Sleep Problems.  Unique to Dr. Kalani’s Practice is that he is proficient with providing both medication management and psychotherapy which improves client satisfaction and saves the client extra co-pays, time and split treatment.  He also has a special interest in nontraditional treatments such as use of herbs or healing power of breath and meditation in the treatment of mental health problems.

Simi Kalani is a psychiatric nurse practitioner who earned her Bachelors and Masters degrees with the highest honor, summa cum laude from Stony Brook University.  She is a caring clinician, very comfortable with blending  medication and psychotherapy. She is compassionate, insightful and master at fixing relationships and changing human behaviors. She has a gift of connecting with the clients of all ages including children.

Membership in following associations:

  • American Psychiatric Association
  • New York State Psychiatric Association
  • Greater Long Island Psychiatric Society
  • American Medical Association
  • New York Medical Society
  • Suffolk Medical Society
  • National Alliance for Mental Illness
  • CHADD

Finances

  • Sliding Scale: Yes
  • Accepted Payment Methods: American Express, Cash, Check, Mastercard, Visa

 Accepted Insurance Plans:

  • BlueCross and/or BlueShield (Out of Network)
  • United Healthcare
  • Oxford
  • Cigna  (Out of Network)
  • NYSHIP/Empire Plan(Out of Network)
  • Verify your health insurance coverage when you arrange your first visit .