Albert Tsai, MD

Al Tsai, MD, is a ABPN certified psychiatrist, at the Eating Recovery Center and Pathlight Mood and Anxiety Program in  Washington State.   Dr. Tsai  has previously worked at Overlake Medical Clinics and Overlake Hospital Medical Center from 2012-2020 where he served as the attending psychiatrist over the Partial Hospitalization Program and also managed patients in the outpatient psychiatry clinic. He also practiced Military Psychiatry with the  United States Army Medical Corps with stations at Walter Reed National Medical Center in Washington D.C., Ft. Bragg Army Medical Center in North Carolina,  and Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom in 2009-2010. 

He attended the University of California at Berkeley where he received a Bachelor’s of Science with a double major in Psychology and Molecular Cell Biology with an emphasis in Neurobiology and a minor Philosophy. He earned his medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. Tsai completed his  internship and residency in 2009 at the Walter Reed National Medical Center in Washington DC and Bethesda, Maryland. 

Dr. Tsai has a wide variety of practice experience and is passionate about the treatment of suicidal thoughts and behaviors, non-suicidal self-injury, personality disorders, and PTSD. He is also excited to participate in the near future in novel treatments for depression, anxiety, PTSD, and substance use, with psychedelic therapies that target the glutamate receptor systems.