Hope Integrative Psychiatry
Dr. omid naim, MD
What is Integrative
Psychiatry?
Offering a more holistic & patient centered approach to health care, Integrative Psychiatry combines mainstream medicine with natural and alternative options wherever there is scientific evidence of safety and effectiveness.
Most importantly it supports your innate capacity to heal and fully recover by focusing on the resources that we have to bolster our resilience naturally such as our lifestyle choices, relationships and each person’s unique sense of purpose & meaning to be seen as a whole person.
What is Integrative Medicine?
Integrative Medicine is at the forefront of a movement in mainstream medicine to integrate more natural and holistic approaches to address chronic diseases, including mental health conditions such as depression, anxiety, trauma, bipolar disorder and even schizophrenia.
This can mean relying much less on pharmaceutical medications which can have serious side effects and block our ability to recover by limiting our natural range of emotions by instead using herbal, nutritional and/or aromatherapies which have been found to work better in many ways and are now backed by solid mainstream research.
This is critical in psychiatry and mental health, more so than any other field, because it is only when we support a whole person approach through an integrated multimodal model can we see the change that is required to heal and recover completely.
A Holistic Approach to Treatment
- Cautious & time limited use of psychoactive medicines with most conditions
- Natural interventions: herbal remedies, nutritional supplements & aromatherapies
- Food & Lifestyle recommendations
- Learning skills and daily practices that promote your self regulation & self agency
- The need for relationships and supportive community in our lives
- Identifying your aspirations and the unique sense of purpose & meaning you have for life
The 9 Principles of Integrative Medicine
- The patient and practitioner are partners in the healing process.
- All factors that influence health, wellness and disease are taken into consideration.
- The care addresses the whole person, including body, mind, and spirit in the context of community.
- Providers use all appropriate healing sciences to facilitate the body’s innate healing response.
- Effective interventions that are natural and less invasive are used whenever possible.
- Because good medicine is based in good science, integrative medicine is inquiry-driven and open to new models of care.
- Alongside the concept of treatment, the broader concepts of health promotion and the prevention of illness are paramount.
- The care is individualized to best address the person’s unique conditions, needs and circumstances.
- Practitioners of integrative medicine exemplify its principles and commit themselves to self-exploration and self-development.
My
Approach
I am committed to helping people achieve mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. I believe my role as a physician is to build a trusting relationship, putting my patients at the center of all treatment decisions, fully informed and empowered to choose what works best for them. The guiding principle in my work is to help you reconnect with your own inner wisdom and natural ability to heal.
Each person I work with receives a personalized approach based on a thorough assessment that considers all aspects of who you are. My assessment process helps you understand the root cause of your struggles, taking a whole-person approach to healing and recovery, aligned with your core values and goals.
My approach ensures you walk away after your first appointment with the following
- The confidence that we are addressing the root cause of your problems.
- An understanding that your symptoms are a signal for growth, change and transformation.
- Feeling able to develop the resources and resilience to overcome the problems you face.
- That you believe you can get better.
What to
Expect
If you are willing to look at everything and do your part, I know I can help you get completely better.
Information Gathering
Upon setting up a first appointment I will send out a detailed questionnaire that will cover a great deal of information about all aspects of your life. This is more than a formality. It provides me with a preliminary roadmap of where we need to focus and explore more deeply when we meet. It will help me learn about your unique biology and temperament, early childhood experiences, family history, current lifestyle, and relationships along with learning about your gifts and vision for the future.
The First Appointment
During a 75-minute Initial Assessment I will go over your entire history with the goal of tying together all parts of who you are and your goals into a single meaningful and coherent formulation that becomes the basis for creating a personalized plan together.
We will review all aspects of who you are – your past, your present and your intrinsic values and sense of purpose through your vision and aspirations for the future. This will include the impact of family and genetic temperament, early childhood experiences and trauma, current behaviors and lifestyle, along with a deep inquiry to assess your unique strengths, belief systems and coping style.
We will then piece together your story, collaboratively, going beyond labels and diagnosis to be focused on identifying the root cause of your problems and make a plan. This approach is the start of a new process of understanding whereby our symptoms are seen as an outward expression of an intrinsic need to heal, or something we are living out of balance with from our authentic self.
The best analogy is to physical pain or hunger – it is a sensation in our mind or body that is alerting us to a need, something is missing, unresolved or in need of change. What this means is that we look beyond just ‘managing’ our symptoms and instead seek to understand what they are asking us to address.
My primary goal is to provide you with practical stability, to meet you where you are at, as well as believe in your long term goals and vision for healing as a whole. We do not have to choose between practical choices like using medicine in a cautious manner with the long term goal of addressing the root cause and building your own resilience so you can heal fully.
A Roadmap for Healing
In the last part of our time together in the assessment I will give you extensive feedback as to all the strategies I believe could be helpful to you, which may or may not include the use of psychotropic medications. The central process for everyone is based on the idea that there exists a state of harmony we can cultivate between our unique nature and our day-to-day lifestyle, which ultimately leads to not just being symptom free, but thriving in this life.
My involvement in your care will include offering remedies to support your healing process such as
- Herbal remedies
- Nutritional Supplements
- Aromatherapy
- Psychoactive Medications
With all my patients I make general lifestyle recommendations such as
- Daily habits and self care approaches that bolster resilience
- Food and nutritional guidance based on your personal needs
- Teaching self regulation & resilience skills such as mindfulness, breathwork and mind-body movement techniques that bolster self agency
Use of Psychoactive Medications
I believe that two key flaws in traditional mental health care prevent people from fully recovering:
- The belief that mental health issues are caused by genetic chemical imbalances, requiring lifelong medication.
- The lack of an integrated, whole-person approach, leading to long-term medication use without a plan to discontinue it.
In the past, issues like depression, anxiety, and trauma were seen as temporary problems that could resolve over time, not lifelong conditions. Sadly, we stopped treating them like other stressors or injuries (such as a broken bone or infection) that overwhelm our ability to cope, needing healing.
Seen this way, medication works well like a cast on a broken leg: it helps stabilize us so we can solve the underlying problem, and the healing process is natural and driven by our own body and mind. A key part of my work is to help people understand that there’s nothing inherently wrong or defective about them.
Our symptoms often stem from real-life problems that cause chronic stress, grief, shame, or other difficult emotions. This includes our bodies distress signs like anxiety and panic, body pains and gastrointestinal disorders.
The key to healing is addressing these problems and building resilience. Whether using natural methods or pharmaceuticals, the goal is to strengthen your innate ability to heal.
If medication is necessary, we’ll begin with a clear plan, including a timeline and a path to transition to natural methods. If you’re already on medication, we may work on a safe plan to taper off if it’s not helping or if better natural alternatives exist.
This approach often leads to more personalized and effective treatment, promoting well-being and resilience while reducing reliance on medication. I have seen time and again that when we work together like this people can transform their lives and eventually wean off medication safely.
Working with Children & Families
At my practice, I take a holistic approach when working with children, teenagers, and their families, focusing on healing the entire system. While I deeply respect and understand that each child or teenager is a unique individual with their own experiences and needs, I also believe that the family plays a central role in the healing process.
My approach centers around the idea that parents and caregivers are the primary support for their children’s growth and development. Instead of just treating the child or teen in isolation, I prioritize empowering and teaching parents the tools they need to be the child’s main source of support and guidance.
This involves helping parents understand their child’s emotional and psychological needs, teaching them how to create a nurturing environment, and strengthening their ability to foster growth and change at home. It also means identifying and incorporating food and lifestyle changes that affect our mental health, for the youth as well as the family as a whole.
By working with the whole family, we can create a stronger support system, promote healthier communication, and build lasting resilience for both the child and the family unit. My goal is to help parents become confident agents of change in their child’s life, guiding them through challenges while encouraging emotional and behavioral growth.
Together, we work to heal and strengthen the family system, ensuring that children and teenagers have the support they need to thrive.
Working as a Team with Therapists & other Practitioners
I believe that a strong therapeutic relationship can be a powerful setting for healing and cultivating lifestyle change. When it works, psychotherapy helps people identify the root causes of their problems and supports people restoring their innate capacity to be resilient to stress, form meaningful relationships and feel whole again.
When you are seeing a therapist or working with other doctors and professionals I prioritize regular communication so that all members of your team are working together on your behalf. Whether it is the natural remedies and/or medicines we use, the therapy you are in, other doctors you see, or your friends & family – we should all be on the same page and on the side of your personal vision for transformation.
Food & Lifestyle
Research shows that early childhood adversity and toxic stress is the primary cause of adult depression, anxiety, addiction and suicide in our country. We hold trauma and toxic stress in our bodies through distress signs like anxiety and panic, body pains and gastrointestinal disorders.
There is also a corresponding lifestyle pattern most of us carry that reflects our attempts to cope and manage these unresolved areas of blockage through avoidance and control.
This is why working with food & lifestyle choices is vital to how I work with people to transform their lives and build their natural resources for resilience and healing.
Our need for love and community
Unresolved trauma and grief lead to an inability to form healthy and meaningful relationships, which are our primary source of meaning, joy, and safety as humans – the hallmarks of mental health.
At HOPE I believe that psychiatry and psychotherapy should focus on helping you repair your relationships and natural community by regenerating your innate capacity for love, connection, and sense of belonging as the most powerful resource for your mental health recovery.
About Me
Despite being trained at top universities, including my residency at UCSF for Adult and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, I recognized the limitations of conventional mental health approaches, where symptom management with medications was often the best we could offer. This prompted me to pursue a fellowship in Integrative Medicine with Dr. Andrew Weil, where I embraced a holistic mindset and learned to use scientifically-backed natural remedies that are safer and often more effective than pharmaceuticals. This experience led to the creation of Hope Integrative Psychiatry and the HOPE Model.
Over the years, I’ve found that what I enjoy most is seeing people’s struggles not as problems to fix or manage, but as a story of growth, change and transformation. I believe symptoms are part of a deeper narrative, and together, we embark on a journey of self-actualization. This is a journey of restoring our connection to our authentic self, repairing or building love and community, and emerging with a life of greater purpose and meaning.
Health
Mastermind
Program
transformational workshop for individuals
This immersive workshop is designed for those seeking a deeper understanding of their own health and healing journey with the support and accountability of a group. Whether you’re navigating anxiety, burnout, or a desire for personal transformation, this experience will equip you with:
- Piecing together your story in a positive transformational lens
- A science-backed framework for emotional resilience and healing
- Tools to integrate lifestyle, nutrition, nervous system regulation, and mindset shifts
- A supportive community of like-minded individuals dedicated to healing
Join us to reclaim your health, reconnect with your innate capacity for healing and build a life of purpose & meaning.
HOPE Model
Practitioner
Training
Unifying health care in One shared Framework
The mental health field is fragmented—practitioners work in silos, interventions are disjointed, and patients get lost in the system with no talk of recovery to strive for. This practitioner training provides an operating system for health, designed to:
- Enhance patient outcomes by equipping practitioners with a structured yet adaptable shared framework integrating diverse modalities —including psychiatry, somatic therapy, functional medicine, and lifestyle interventions—into a cohesive collaborative approach
This is for forward-thinking psychiatrists, therapists, health coaches, and medical professionals who want to elevate their practice and be part of the future of mental health.
Speaking
&
Media
Advancing the Future of Mental Health
Dr. Omid is dedicated to reshaping mental health care through a unified ecological approach. Dr. Omid delivers compelling talks that bridge science, clinical practice, and human resilience.
Dr. Omid is available for keynote presentations, media appearances, and podcast interviews on topics such as:
- The evolution of psychiatry and the movement beyond symptom suppression
- Designing a health system that fosters self-agency and long-term resilience
- Integrating ancient wisdom and modern medicine for transformative healing
Dr. Omid is available for engagements that seek to inspire, educate, and drive meaningful change in mental health.
Get in touch
Phone: (747) 247 – 2203
Fax: (747) 267-7738
Email: admin@hopepsychiatry.com
Address: 20 Sunnyside Ave, Suite C Mill Valley, CA 94941
Non Profit
La Maida Project
Founded in 2019, La Maida Project is a nonprofit organization addressing the mental health crisis by empowering organizations to adopt an ecological approach to healing that improves the mental health of their teams and those they serve.