Integrative Medicine for Mental Health

Medications alone are not working.

Your primary care doctor has diagnosed you with anxiety and depression, resulting in a prescription (not discussed as optional) for an anti-anxiety medication and an antidepressant.

The medications recommended are not new to you. You’ve been on these medications before, and the side effects drove you crazy. They caused little twitches that only seemed to be active when you were trying to rest, interrupted sleep, non-existent sex drive, and appetite and mood swings reminiscent of kids on a swing set. And you’re still anxious and depressed!

The medication isn’t working, and you’re convinced there has to be another way. Is it possible that anxiety and depression are not simply a “chemical imbalance,” like your doctors keep telling you they are?

That’s where Integrative Medicine can help.

Integrative Medicine works with your existing practitioners and their medical models to complement and supplement your treatment in a way that treats the whole person (mind, body, spirit) rather than using a symptom profile that solely focuses on the body (while leaving the mind and spirit neglected), as the medical model tends to favor.

Due to the vast proliferation of knowledge since the advent of the Internet, we find ourselves in a unique position to learn, at breakneck speed, about the healing practices of other cultures.

Integrative Medicine for mental health brings in healing practices of all kinds from various cultures around the globe. All these ancient practices speak to the undeniable connectedness of mind, body, and spirit.