ABOUT Dr Katy Kasraie
I’m Dr Katy Kasraie, a board-certified Family Medicine Physician (GP) in the UK, a Menopause Specialist with the British Menopause Society, and an Aesthetic Medicine Physician, with twenty years of clinical experience across the UK, US and Ireland. My approach is warm and person-centred: unhurried consultations, with the time to truly listen, and care that treats you as a whole person rather than a list of symptoms.
Private GP & Family Medicine
Menopause & Hormonal Wellness
Preventive & Longevity Medicine
Aesthetics & Skin Health
Weight Loss & Lifestyle
My Story
Twenty years into practising medicine, the thing that still draws me to it is unchanged from where it began: people, and the stories they bring into the room with them.
My route into medicine began in California, at the University of California, San Diego, where I earned a BA and a BS. I went on to qualify in medicine from Trinity College Dublin in 2005, and gained my Membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners in 2013. My training took me further afield too, to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, where I worked as a paediatric doctor and passed the United States Medical Licensing Examinations (USMLE).
That path, across countries and specialties, shaped the doctor I am today. My grounding is in family medicine, spanning paediatrics and men’s and women’s health, with a particular interest in dermatology, aesthetics and menopause care, supported by postgraduate diplomas in clinical dermatology and in sexual and reproductive health, alongside further training in aesthetics and menopause.
Turning Points
A great deal of who I am as a doctor comes from my mother, Nastaran. In 2008, she developed an infection, and the early warning signs were missed. Her pain, which was the first sign of it, wasn’t taken seriously, and by the time it was, the damage had been done. What began as a simple infection led to a catastrophic spinal cord stroke that left her quadriplegic and ventilator-dependent.
I moved from Los Angeles to London to be by her side, and cared for her through the seventeen years that followed. In her most critical moments I was her advocate, but she was never a passive patient. Through every ICU admission and every setback, she never once complained. She met an illness most people couldn’t imagine with humour, grace and an optimism that never dimmed, and she never lost her smile. She was the strongest person I have ever known.
Her illness changed the kind of doctor I became. Before it, I saw medicine as a science: facts, charts and treatments. Through her, I learned that medicine is also a deeply human story. I learned how fear feels from the patient’s side, the quiet dignity people hold even when their bodies fail them, and that healing isn’t always curing. Sometimes it’s caring, listening, and showing up. She taught me never to see a patient as a diagnosis, but as someone’s whole story, and in some small way, every patient became my mother. Her courage is why I listen the way I do, and every act of compassion and advocacy in my consulting room is my way of honouring her.
Perimenopause became another turning point, not because it’s a trend, but because I lived it myself. It started quietly, with brain fog rather than any textbook symptom. I couldn’t think clearly, I didn’t feel like myself, and even as a doctor, I struggled to be taken seriously.
If I was finding it this hard, what must it be like for the women in my waiting room, with no medical background and no one in their corner? That was the moment I truly understood what it feels like to be a patient who isn’t being heard, and I decided it would never happen to the women in my care.
In 2025, my world shifted again. I found a lump myself, and was diagnosed with breast cancer. I have since come through surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, and I’m now on endocrine treatment. Sitting in chairs I’d never sat in before gave me an entirely new understanding of what my patients go through. That treatment brought another lesson closer to home: a menopause induced by my cancer treatment. Where perimenopause had come on gradually, this was more sudden, and it means I now understand the very thing I treat from the inside, with a deeper empathy for the women in my care.
The diagnosis was a shock, and cancer is never anything less than serious. But the seventeen years alongside my mother had taught me what resilience really looks like, and once the initial shock passed, I faced it head-on. If anything, it brought clarity. I have now lived what so many of my patients live: the fear, the uncertainty, and the moments when you simply need someone to be honest with you. It has made me a better doctor.
The Path Here
Twenty years of clinical experience, trained across the US, Ireland and the UK, now in private practice in London.
I’m a board-certified Family Medicine Physician (GP) in the UK, holding Membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners (MRCGP), and a Menopause Specialist certified by the British Menopause Society. I’ve also completed postgraduate training in clinical dermatology and in women’s health, and passed the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE).
