Integrative Medicine for Mental Health
A Botton-up Approach to Your Wellness
Integrative medicine for mental health is a whole-person, root-cause approach to therapy. I work within the scope of my competency to provide you with an understanding of how your body and mind respond to stressors. I incorporate education about hormones, the gut microbiome, neurotransmitters, nutrition, supplementation, nervous system regulation, meditation, exercise and other complementary and alternative treatments into each therapy session. Day-to-day functioning is different for each person, based on their unique limitations. This type of therapy allows us to determine how to best optimize your desired level of functioning so you can feel more empowered and in control of your healing. You will also learn about any potential root causes to mental health concerns and how to manage those with complementary and alternative treatments.
Nervous System Regulation
Our autonomic nervous system (ANS) is responsible for many unconscious activities we depend on each day - breathing, heart rate, digestion, blood pressure regulation, sexual arousal, etc. It is also disrupted and made less resilient by daily stressors, greatly affecting our overall health. The good news is that we can increase the resiliency of this system through regulating activities. This allows us to decrease overall stress, increase restorative sleep, decrease inflammation, stimulate memory and new learning and much more. In our work together, you will learn the function of the ANS, the different (autonomic) states of our nervous system and tools to develop more nervous system resiliency.
Safe & Sound Protocol
The Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) is an evidence-based listening therapy designed to reduce sound sensitivities and improve auditory processing, autonomic state regulation, and social engagement behaviors through filtered music.
As a practical application of Polyvagal Theory, the SSP acts as a non-invasive, acoustic vagal nerve stimulator, helping to re-tune the nervous system to better support connection, collaboration and resilience.
The SSP involves listening to specially filtered music through headphones alongside a provider, in-person or remotely. Suitable for children and adults, the SSP has demonstrated benefits for individuals with trauma, anxiety, sensory processing differences and more.
Who Can Benefit from Integrative Medicine for Mental Health?
Have you tried everything and feel like some piece of the puzzle is still missing? Do you feel like you need some extra support, but don’t want to jump to taking medication right away?* Do you want to make some lifestyle changes that will help support your long-term health? Then this could be a good fit for you. Integrative mental health treatment is applicable to a wide variety of issues and mental health diagnoses. The benefits to integrative therapy are vast and we work together to determine what will work for you, given your lifestyle and limitations. It’s time for you to reclaim your life!
*I support the use of psychotropic medication in my practice while also supporting the wishes of those who want to use this as a last resort to treatment.
Ready to learn more about integrative medicine for mental health and how it can help you?
Reach out to me for a free 15-minute phone consultation.