Karen Giles, MD, MS

Karen Giles, MD, MS is a Board-certified psychiatrist specializing in Interventional Psychiatry and Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy. She is passionate about treatment resistant mental health conditions and cares for patients at Breakthru Psychiatric Solutions in Sandy Springs, Georgia, a suburb north of Atlanta. 

Dr. Giles obtained a Master's degree in molecular neuroscience from Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Sciences studying neurodegenerative diseases. She then attended medical school at the Medical College of Wisconsin, where she was accepted into the rigorous Medical-Scientist Training Program, which consisted of four years of basic, translational, and clinical scientific research in addition to four years of medical school. Dr. Giles completed her four-year psychiatry residency training at Emory University School of Medicine, where she served as Chief Resident. She maintains her connection to Emory as an Adjunct Faculty Member in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and as a member of the Emory-Healthcare Network. Dr. Giles also serves as an Adjunct Faculty Member at Morehouse School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. She enjoys teaching the next generation of interventional psychiatrists and has trained Emory and Morehouse residents at Breakthru.

As an interventionalist, Dr. Giles approaches psychiatric conditions by targeting brain circuitry through neuromodulation and fast-acting alternatives to more traditional mental health pharmacotherapies. She is certified in administering ketamine and esketamine by the Integrative Psychiatric Institute (IPI) and performs transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) as an active member of the Clinical TMS Society.  

Dr. Giles is certified in Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) and Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy through the IPI. She will offer MDMA- and Psilocybin- Assisted Psychotherapy as soon as they are FDA-approved.

Dr. Giles takes a comprehensive and collaborative approach with every patient and utilizes interventional modalities along with lifestyle optimization. She is committed to staying current on the latest treatment modalities for mood, anxiety, and trauma-related disorders and bringing them to her patients at Breakthru Psychiatric Solutions. 

Outside of medicine, Dr. Giles enjoys pilates, hiking, learning to play golf, and traveling. She currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia, with her husband Jim, tabby cat, and black lab.