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title: Walker Lyerly, MD
date: 2024-04-30T01:53:19Z
modified: 2026-10-16T01:01:39Z
permalink: "https://www.columbiapsychiatry-dc.com/team/walker-lyerly-md/"
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status: publish
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wpid: 2849
specialty:
  - Psychiatry
office:
  - Arlington, VA
  - Columbia Psychiatry
featured_image: "https://www.columbiapsychiatry-dc.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Walker-Lyerly-1.jpg"
timestamp: 2026-10-16T01:01:39Z
tags:
  - Psychiatry
  - Arlington, VA
  - Columbia Psychiatry
---

### Doctor of Medicine

![](https://www.columbiapsychiatry-dc.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Walker-Lyerly-1.jpg)

Walker Lyerly is a child and adolescent psychiatrist at our [Arlington](https://columbiaassstg.wpenginepowered.com/locations/arlington-va/) clinic who provides [psychiatry](https://columbiaassstg.wpenginepowered.com/psychiatric-care/psychiatry-and-medication/) services in-person and via telehealth. He provides medication management and individual therapy to children, adolescents, and their families. He provides significant coordination of care with parents, pediatricians, and school counselors to optimize a child or adolescent’s treatment outcomes.

As a gifted psychopharmacologist and psychotherapist, Dr. Lyerly blends these skills to treat clients ranging from those with simple adjustment problems to highly complex and challenging clients, including those with rapid cycling bipolar disorder.

He 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.