Medical Director
Dr. Arif Noorbaksh is a board-certified psychiatrist and experienced medical leader specializing in clinical psychiatry, interventional treatment, and the development of collaborative systems of care. As Medical Director of The River Wellness Texas, he provides medical leadership and psychiatric oversight in support of the organization’s commitment to comprehensive, individualized behavioral healthcare. Dr. Noorbaksh has extensive experience treating adolescents and adults with mood, anxiety, psychotic, neurodevelopmental, and substance use disorders, including individuals with serious, medically complex, or treatment-resistant conditions.
His clinical background includes traditional psychopharmacology, multiple psychotherapeutic approaches, and interventional treatments such as ketamine, esketamine, electroconvulsive therapy, and transcranial magnetic stimulation. He has provided care across inpatient hospitals, psychiatric consultation services, specialty outpatient practices, integrated primary care clinics, Veterans Affairs settings, and telepsychiatry programs. This breadth of experience allows him to approach each individual with a comprehensive understanding of both their immediate psychiatric needs and the broader factors affecting their long-term health and well-being.
In addition to his clinical work, Dr. Noorbaksh has held medical and clinical leadership positions with several behavioral healthcare organizations. He is the Founder and Medical Director of Therapath Mental Health and has previously served in leadership roles with Heading Health, Andala Health, and Harmony Bay Wellness. His administrative experience includes supervising psychiatric providers, developing clinical policies and procedures, improving provider education and onboarding, implementing electronic medical record systems, creating quality-improvement processes, and building sustainable models for delivering high-quality psychiatric care. His collaborative leadership style is informed by his interests in healthcare policy, technology, organizational strategy, and the economics of healthcare delivery.
Dr. Noorbaksh completed his general psychiatry residency at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. He earned his medical degree from McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and his Bachelor of Science in Neurobiology from The University of Texas at Austin. At The River Wellness Texas, Dr. Noorbaksh works closely with executive leadership, psychiatric providers, therapists, and the broader clinical team to ensure that medical and psychiatric care are safe, ethical, evidence-based, and fully integrated into each client’s overall treatment experience.
