Integrative Psychiatry blends conventional and functional medicine approaches to target the underlying root causes of symptoms and psychiatric illness.

Anxiety is the mind and body’s anticipatory response to uncertainty, perceived threat, or lack of control — marked by a persistent sense of unease, tension, and hypervigilance that becomes disconnected from immediate danger. It is the suffering of what might happen, not what is happening — a looping internal narrative that magnifies doubt, catastrophizes possibility, and hijacks presence.

Fluctuating and often fragmented relationship with attention, motivation, and regulation - not due to a lack of capacity, but inconsistency in its access. It is a condition of context-sensitive performance, where the brain struggles to filter, prioritize, and sustain engagement with tasks or experiences that lack immediate relevance, novelty, or emotional salience.

Trauma is not defined by what happens to you, but by what happens inside you as a result. It is the enduring emotional, somatic, and psychological response to an overwhelming experience that exceeds your capacity to cope, process, or make meaning of it — leaving behind a sense of fragmentation, disconnection, or threat that persists even after the event has passed.

A rapid EMDR derivative that works to restructure distressing experiences so they no longer trigger intense physical and psychological reactions, opening up access to one’s potential.

A persistent, whole-person state of physical, psychological, and spiritual dysfunction marked by loss (interest, energy, meaning, motivation, sleep, appetite, focus, and emotional variability) that impairs one’s capacity to engage with life processes.

In previous blogs, I expanded on some of the key tools used in Integrative Psychiatry. Medications, nutraceuticals, body system optimization, and psychotherapy are all effective strategies to improve psychological health and wellbeing.

There are several important benefits in the incorporation of psychotherapy. In this blog, I’ll disuss how psychotherapy can help you achieve mental health and wellness.

Psychiatric genetic testing provides a wealth of information that can be used to inform treatment options. This reduces the “trial and error" approach to mental health treatment and may reveal some of the root causes of psychiatric illness.

Explore how Integrative Psychiatry brings more objectivity into considering treatment options through advanced laboratory and diagnostic testing.

Pharmaceutical (drugs) and nutraceuticals (herbals, botanicals, and supplements) can be used to treat psychiatric symptoms.