Prior to the closure of her practice in 1/31/2020, Dr. D’Loreyn Walker MD served as a board-certified Adult and Child-Adolescent Psychiatrist who had been practicing medicine for more than 15 years and practicing psychiatry for more than 10 years.
Dr. Walker completed her medical education and graduated from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine at Chapel Hill. As part of her medical training, Dr. Walker rotated to Brown University to train with both the inpatient and outpatient child psychiatry teams of the institution. A commitment to children’s medicine led Dr. Walker to complete a 2-year course of exposure to pediatrics at the Indiana University School of Medicine, all in preparation for a career of service as a child and adolescent psychiatrist. Dr. Walker went on to complete both her general (i.e. adult) psychiatry residency and child & adolescent psychiatry fellowship at Indiana University, which included training through the Christian Sarkine Autism Treatment Center at Riley Children’s Hospital. To further augment her psychiatric exposure, Dr. Walker completed two rotations through forensic psychiatry which included education and/or service through Indiana University, the University of Cincinnati, and the Marion County Juvenile Detention Center. As part of this education, Dr. Walker was privileged to work directly with both Dr. George Parker and Dr. Richard Lawlor.
Following graduation from her training program, Dr. Walker served in association with two Chicago area group practices. She has also owned and operated her own practice out of the Oak Forest/Orland Park area. In March 2018, The Walker Clarity Centre is Dr. Walker opened her second practice offering. An out-of-network office serving the community of Chicago and its surrounding suburbs. This practice closed at the end of January 2020.
Dr. Walker continues to believes that people with mental health disorders should first and always be treated as human beings – not as walking psychiatric diagnoses. With this in mind, she remains committed to encouraging individuals to manage their mental health with streamlined medication regimens that do not involve potentially addictive substances.
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Prior to her retirement, Dr. D’Loreyn Walker provided services in the areas of:
- Depressive and Dysthymic Disorders
- Panic, Generalized, Social, and Other Anxiety Disorders (without long-term benzodiazepine treatment)
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Insomnia
- Bipolar and Cyclothymic Disorders
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
- Medication Tolerance/Dependence with Gradual Discontinuation that Preserves Client Daily Function
- Medication-Resistant Diagnoses with Genetic Medication Tolerance Screening