At Bright Horizons Psychiatry in Rockville, MD, we specialize in helping adults overcome depression, anxiety, PTSD, and more. Whether you’ve tried therapy before or this is your first time reaching out, we’re here to support you—with compassion, science-backed treatments, and a team that genuinely cares.
We’re a psychiatry clinic focused on real progress. Our goal is simple: help you feel better. We treat mood disorders with medical care that’s proven to work—always delivered with kindness.
After years of ineffective medications, TMS at Bright Horizons transformed my outlook. With compassionate care and painless treatments, I feel lighter, think differently, and highly recommend this!
I had been struggling with depression since childhood, but Bright Horizons Psychiatry exceeded my expectations, guiding me from darkness to hope. Through compassionate care and effective treatments like Esketamine and TMS, I feel lighter, more positive, and truly on the path to recovery.
Bright Horizons exceeded my expectations, guiding me from darkness to hope. With caring staff and effective treatment, I feel lighter, more positive, and on the path to recovery from depression.
A life-changing journey with Bright Horizons—after decades of depression, I’ve found joy, connection, and hope. Grateful for the care, support, and transformation this experience has brought me.
We’re not just healthcare providers. We’re real people who care deeply about your journey.
Led by Dr. Amir Etesam, our compassionate team includes nurse practitioners, mental health coordinators, and neuromodulation specialists—all focused on one thing: helping you heal.
You’re not alone. We’re here to help, with real care that works.
Let’s talk. Even one conversation can change things.
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No, you don’t need a referral. You can book an appointment with us directly, whether you’re seeing a psychiatrist for the first time or switching providers. Just call us or use the online booking option—whichever is easier for you.
We treat a wide range of mood-related conditions, including:
Depression (including treatment-resistant depression)
Anxiety disorders
PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder)
OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder)
Bipolar disorder
And more
If you’re not sure what you’re dealing with, that’s okay. Start by booking a consultation—we’ll help figure it out together.
Good question.
TMS (Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation) uses gentle magnetic pulses to stimulate parts of the brain linked to depression.
Spravato® (Esketamine) is a nasal spray approved for adults with treatment-resistant depression.
Ketamine injections are fast-acting and often used when other treatments haven’t helped.
Your provider will walk you through what’s best for your specific situation. We never recommend anything that doesn’t fit your needs.
Your first appointment is a relaxed conversation. We’ll talk about your symptoms, your mental health history, and how you’re feeling now. There’s no pressure, and everything is kept confidential. The goal is to understand what’s going on and build a treatment plan that feels right for you.
We do our best to get you in quickly—often within a few days. If you’re flexible with timing or open to a telehealth session, we can usually get you seen even faster.
Yes. Many of our patients choose video appointments. It’s secure, private, and works well—especially if leaving home is difficult or if you’re located farther away. You’ll still get the same quality of care, just without the commute.
Yes, we accept most major insurance plans, including:
Medicare
Medicaid
Blue Cross Blue Shield
Aetna
Cigna
…and more.
If you’re not sure whether you’re covered, give us a call. We’ll walk you through it.
You’re not alone—and you’re not out of options. We specialize in helping people who haven’t found relief through traditional therapy or medications. Our advanced treatments like TMS, Spravato®, and ketamine have helped many patients finally feel better when nothing else worked.
Bright Horizons Psychiatry Accessibility Statement
We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers).
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs. There may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to