Stacy Stojakovic, PA-C, CAQ-Psychiatry

Stacy Stojakovic, PA-C · CAQ-Psychiatry

About Clarity Psychiatry

Care shaped by a decade of seeing the whole picture.

Stacy Stojakovic, PA-C, CAQ-Psychiatry, founded Clarity Psychiatry to offer psychiatric care that is careful, transparent, evidence-based, and deeply respectful of the person behind the symptoms.

Why Clarity

Psychiatry is easier to navigate when the reasoning is visible.

Psychiatric symptoms rarely arrive in neat categories. They can overlap with medical conditions, sleep disruption, medications, substances, trauma, stress, and the way a person’s life has changed over time.

After more than a decade working across urgent and emergency psychiatry, observation, crisis stabilization, inpatient and outpatient care, Stacy learned that the most useful question is often not simply “What diagnosis fits?” It is “What is happening, what changed, what matters to this person, and what is the safest and most useful next step?”

Clarity Psychiatry was built around that approach: slow down enough to recognize the pattern, explain the clinical reasoning, and create a plan that is both evidence-based and realistic for the individual patient.

Practice values

What guides the work.

Whole-person thinking

Symptoms are considered alongside medical conditions, medications, sleep, substance use, trauma, functioning, relationships, and life context.

Clarity & transparency

Patients should understand the working diagnosis, the reasoning behind recommendations, the uncertainties, and the available alternatives.

Safety & science

Treatment is grounded in evidence, monitoring, risk assessment, professional judgment, and the realities of safe outpatient care.

Dignity & collaboration

Care aims to preserve autonomy, psychological safety, and meaningful participation in decisions while remaining clinically responsible.

Sculptural bonsai photographed by Stacy Stojakovic

Professional background

Psychiatric medicine, crisis care, and diagnostic reasoning.

Psychiatric experienceUrgent/emergency psychiatry, observation, crisis stabilization, inpatient and outpatient care, and psychopharmacology.
Midwestern UniversityMaster of Medical Science in Physician Assistant Studies.
Arizona State UniversityMaster of Arts in Criminology & Criminal Justice.
University of ArizonaBachelor of Arts in Psychology, minor in Marketing.
Certification
NCCPA-certified PA
Added qualification
CAQ-Psychiatry
Arizona license
Physician Assistant #6262
Experience
10+ years psychiatric care
Individual NPI
1285010827
Practice NPI
1356262141

“PA-C” identifies Stacy as a certified physician assistant. Clarity Psychiatry does not represent Stacy as a physician or psychiatrist.

Red flowers photographed by Stacy StojakovicWater lilies photographed by Stacy Stojakovic

Writing & ideas

Thinking about psychiatry beyond the appointment.

Stacy writes about psychiatric assessment, diagnostic reasoning, and the systems in which mental health care is delivered. Her writing reflects the same approach used in practice: process before assumption, context before simplification, and transparency about how clinical decisions are made.

Read Stacy’s articles on KevinMD