WHAT IS INTEGRATIVE PSYCHIATRY AND PSYCHOTHERAPY?
It is a revolutionary mental health recovery model that looks for the root causes of mental illness. We do not believe in masking symptoms rather see them as signals that balance is off or a need has not been met for our optimal health to emerge naturally promoting mental health recovery.
We are at a groundbreaking moment in health and science, where it is possible to integrate the best of Western medicine with traditional and natural systems of healing based on solid empirical evidence. Integrative Medicine is at the forefront of this movement in mainstream medicine.
When you ask: What is Integrative psychiatry, you will find that this is a holistic approach to mental health that combines traditional psychiatric practices with alternative therapies, focusing on the whole individual, including mind, body, and spirit.
By considering all aspects of a person’s life, including social, biological, psychological, and environmental factors, integrative psychiatry aims to address underlying causes of mental health issues rather than just treating symptoms.
This approach often leads to more personalized and effective treatment plans, fostering overall well-being and resilience, potentially reducing the need for medication, and offering a mental health recovery model to help you live life fully.
Our Philosophy
Symptoms tell a story
Chronic states of stress and inflammation held in our bodies arise from our unresolved trauma and grief as well as lifestyle choices, poor food quality and the diminishment of community and meaningful values we need to feel whole.
Everyone has an innate capacity to heal
When we empower individuals with the proper support and challenge we evolved to need from life, we uncover our innate capacity to heal and can experience mental health recovery completely.
Integrity is Health
When we bring our past, our temperament and family story, current lifestyle and our vision for our lives into flow we restore our innate wholeness and innate capacity to heal naturally.
Community can help you heal
Authenticity and belonging are our natural state. When we restore a sense of belonging, our unique gifts, sense of purpose and service to our community can provide us with the capacity to be whole ourselves.
THE HOPE EXPERIENCE
At Hope we practice integrative psychiatry with the primary use of herbal and nutritional remedies in order to support your natural healing capacity for mental health recovery and use psychoactive medicine cautiously as a last resort. This is in collaboration with a multi-modal team model with integrative psychotherapy, somatic trauma therapy and a focus on food and lifestyle change.
A Visit at HOPE
Information Gathering
Before your consultation, you will receive an in-depth integrative psychiatry questionnaire to 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.
Initial Assessment and Comprehensive Formulation
During a 90-minute Integrative Psychiatry appointment, your physician 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.
Creating a personalized health plan
From determining which therapeutic modalities are a good fit for you to guidance on eating and exercise to sleep and supplements, we make a tailored plan for you.
Based on your initial consultation – we will create an assessment of all relevant parts of who you are.
Comprehensive formulation piecing all parts together into one meaningful story for healing, growth, and mental health recovery
Review Modalities – providing for your specific needs, and cutting out what you don’t need
Working with the body and 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 a corresponding lifestyle pattern most of us carry that reflects our attempts to cope and manage these unresolved areas of blockage.
By working with lifestyle and through Somatic Trauma therapy we get at the problem where it lives, and complete resolution is possible.
Focusing on the 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 Integrative Health we believe that psychiatry and psychotherapy should focus on helping you repair your relationships and natural community.
Psychotherapy should help you regenerate your innate capacity for love, connection, and community as the most powerful resource for your mental health recovery.
Ongoing Collaboration and Continued support
Healing and transformation happen when we identify the conditions we need to empower our innate capacity to heal. We work closely with you as a team to address all parts of the problem at the same time so complete recovery can be possible.
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Locations:
Los Angeles
Sherman Oaks, CA 91403
Bay Area
Mill Valley, CA 94941