Integrative Psychiatry and Talk Therapy personalized to your journey
As a board-certified psychiatrist with additional integrative and therapy training, I offer holistic, evidence-based care to support your whole self. I offer both psychiatric medication management and trauma-informed therapy, with or without medication.
As Mary Oliver writes, “Attention is the beginning of devotion.” Attending to our inner worlds and to our health allows for transformation and healing. I believe we all have the capacity to come into better relationships with our bodies, our history, the many versions of us, for finding a touchstone of wisdom, authenticity and compassion within, and for continuing to unfold. The more we can come into fuller relationship with ourselves, the more we can offer in our relationships with others and the world.
Offerings
Integrative psychiatry
Our mental health is inseparable from our physical health, what we eat, how we care for ourselves, our learned patterns, how we find meaning, and our relationships with loved ones, our community, and the world. My integrative approach to psychiatry sees you through this wider lens, centers treatment on your goals, and aims to address root causes of suffering rather than managing symptoms.
Initial comprehensive assessment includes extensive intake questionnaire, detailed mental and physical health history, review of nutritional and lifestyle factors, and consideration of laboratory testing. Treatment plans are customized and may include nutritional and lifestyle recommendations, psychotherapy, evidence-based complementary therapies, and, if desired, a discussion of the pros and cons of medications and supplements.
Medication management
I have extensive psychopharmacological experience and understand how medications can be helpful as well as their limitations. Medications can be useful for addressing symptoms that are biologically driven and for those with severe symptoms. In some cases, medications can provide a bridge to gain steady ground to then be able to address other psychological and lifestyle factors.
When appropriate and if desired, I can work with you to simplify your medications and to support your medication tapering. There are no right or wrong decisions when it comes to taking medications. My goal is to provide information, options, and to help support you in what might feel best for you at any given time in your journey.
Psychotherapy
I offer collaborative, trauma-informed therapy influenced by Internal Family Systems, psychodynamic, attachment and existential perspectives and somatic and mindfulness practices.
When we come to therapy, we may be feeling stuck, constricted, fragmented, heart-broken, demoralized, fearful or overwhelmed. We may be wondering whether we could be living our lives another way. Therapy gives attention to what is hurting, what feels tied in knots, what we are trying to push away so that we can come into new relationship with these inner experiences - allowing them to shift and to transform. Paying attention to what we are feeling - versus trying to override it - often can be a new experience. Learning to be with these feelings in a new way, with openness, compassion and a sense of safety takes practice, but ultimately, this is what leads to embodied healing and change.