Integrative Psychiatry
Integrative Psychiatry involves a new paradigm of healing by synthesizing traditional medical understandings with the deeper cause of disease by integrating mind, body, spirit and emotions. I draw on a blend of conventional psychiatry and alternative (non-pharmaceutical) therapies, including pharmaceutical grade nutraceutical supplementation, detox, adrenal and GI tract balancing, which supports, and activates the body's own innate healing ability.
Depression afflicts more than 120 million people worldwide and almost 20 million people in the U.S. alone, however:
- only 1/3 of depressed individuals receive treatment.
- more than half of depressed patients achieve only partial or no recovery using conventional pharmaceuticals.
- side effects contribute to poor treatment compliance, often furthering incomplete resolution of symptoms.
The answer is not to be found in a pill, but rather in the way our genes, diet, and environment interact to alter brain chemistry and detract from optimal health and functional balance.
Factors such as:
- dietary imbalance
- nutritional insufficiencies
- hormonal dysregulation
- chronic inflammation
- occult infections
- GI tract dysbiosis
- adrenal/thyroid imbalance
- environmental toxins
- lack of movement and exercise
- emotional trauma
are the real and underlying causes of an epidemic of disorders that persistently plague many individuals despite skyrocketing rises in prescriptions for mood-altering medications.
Bipolar Disorder, schizophrenia, depression and anxiety are due to an imbalance in the brain's neurotransmitter chemicals, however the cause of this depletion is not known. There is recent evidence to suggest that nutrient deficiencies may be the cause of many of our chronic illnesses, including disorders of the central nervous system, and mental illness.
Nutrients are chemicals that the brain requires to work efficiently. For example, B vitamins are needed to make and regulate neurotransmitters (serotonin, norepinepherine and dopamine). Lack of vital nutrients may be the missing link in the cause of the chemical imbalances found in these disorders.
Dr. Linus Pauling, winner of two Nobel Prizes, postulated that some people have higher genetic requirements for vitamins and minerals, and that mental disease may be due to a lack of vital nutrients.
TrueHope EMPowerplus (Essential Mineral Power Plus) provides a complete and balanced nutrient program that allows the brain and central nervous system to balance itself and heal. It contains a compsite of vitamins and minerals in a specialized bio-available form that allows the body to utilize a higher percentage making more available for the body to process it.
Genesa, Inc. Total Amino Solution is a free form, balanced amino acid blend, which provides the building blocks for the body, central nervous system, and the brain's neurotransmitters (Serotonin, Dopamine, GABA, etc). It too plays a very important role in brain and central nervous system balance.
Total Amino Solution works synergistically with EMPowerplus to affect change in the brain and central nervous system. Often times patients are able to dramatically reduce medications over a period of time or eliminate them completely. Brain chemistry is naturally restored, along with true well being. The two combined can be used to treat adults as well as children..
For a whole and complete healing, the imbalances in the energetic system of the body must be addressed and corrected. Through the use of high powered nutrition, homeopathic medications, hands-on healing techniques, and high tech quantum biofeedback; emotional blockages can be released restoring balance to all aspects of mind, body, emotions and spirit.
The powerful combination of restoring balance to the energetic body by allowing new energy and healed patterns to flow into the body, along with the supplements, allow the body to fully integrate the newly healed patterns for transformation of mind, body and spirit.
