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Walker Lyerly IV, M.D.
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Meet Dr. Walker Lyerly
Dr. Lyerly specializes in treating children, adolescents, adults, and families through medication management and psychotherapy. He has expertise in treating a wide range of conditions, from adjustment difficulties to complex psychiatric disorders, including bipolar disorder.
Dr. Lyerly sees children, adolescents, and adults.
To check Dr. Lyerly’s current availability, please request an appointment through our office. Appointment openings can vary, and our team can help you find the soonest available option. Please call (301) 984-9791
As a patient of Dr. Lyerly, you can expect thoughtful, personalized care that combines medication management and therapy to address your unique needs and help you achieve the best possible outcomes.
"Dr Lyerly is hands down the best psychiatrist on planet earth. I’ve been with him for the past 7 years and am so thankful for him! If you’re on the fence about becoming a patient at Potomac psychiatry, just do it! You won’t regret it." - Google Review
Dr. Lyerly is a multiple-time Washingtonian Top Doctor and Bethesda Top Doctor.
Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina
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Biography
Dr. Walker Lyerly is a child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist who provides medication management and individual therapy to children, adolescents, and adults. He provides significant coordination of care with parents, pediatricians, and school counselors to optimize a child or adolescent’s treatment outcomes. Dr. Lyerly also provides medication management and psychotherapy services to adults.
As a gifted psychopharmacologist and psychotherapist, Dr. Lyerly blends these skills to treat patients ranging from those with simple adjustment problems to highly complex and challenging patients including those with rapid cycling bipolar disorder.
Walker Lyerly IV, M.D. received his undergraduate degree from Davidson College, where he graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, and his medical degree from Duke University Medical School. Dr. Lyerly is Board certified in Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychiatry, and has been in practice since 1992.