Specialized Care for a Specific Life

Dr. Kelli Hyland is a psychiatrist and former diplomat. She spent almost a decade caring for military veterans. She then served across the Western Hemisphere and Asia as a Regional Medical Officer - Psychiatrist in the State Department, before retiring from the USG in 2026.

She knows this life from the inside. She understands living with pollution, traffic, crime, natural disasters, and difficult climates, worrying about children in international schools and aging parents at home. She understands the excitement of having a front row seat to history, along with the risk, responsibility, and high stakes inherent in that work. She understands the exhaustion of moves, cycling through postings, carrying two phones on-call 24/7, navigating the bureaucracy. She understands losing continuity with stateside clinicians and avoiding care entirely to protect clearances. She understands the challenges of returning to the USA, raising third-country kids, the high cost of living in WMA, and political intensity of being in the building. She understands the isolation, sacrifice, and putting others and mission above self.

Dr. Hyland provides virtual psychiatric care exclusively to members of the Foreign Service and their adult family members. Her practice is intentionally small, flexible, individualized. She provides trauma-informed and LGBTQIA+ affirmative care.

When not seeing patients, she enjoys reading, writing, creating art, weight training, running, travel, and spending time with her friends, musician husband, artist daughter, two ridiculous doodles, and cranky cat.