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Integrative Mental Health

Joy | Calm | Focus


Just as our emotions can affect our physical wellbeing, so too can physical factors impact our mental state. Factors including nutrition, inflammation, digestive health, poor sleep, and food intolerances or malabsorption can alter levels of neurotransmitters in your brain. Neurotransmitters such as serotonin and dopamine have been associated with mood disorders (such as depression, stress and anxiety). Depression has also been associated with lower levels of brain growth factors that protect and promote the growth of brain cells.

 

Addressing these physical factors through herbal and nutritional medicine can help to balance your brain chemistry and improve levels of brain growth factors, thereby improving your moods.

The Walsh Approach

The Walsh Research Institute has a mission to “bring the benefits of advanced biochemical therapy to millions of persons challenged by ADHD, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, anxiety, clinical depression, behavior disorders, autism, and neurodegenerative disorders, conduct research studies into a range of mental disorders and train doctors around the world in advanced, drug-free biochemical treatment of these disorders.”...

Pyroluria

Pyrrole disorder is a nutritional disorder that can lead to many health problems including serious illness, disease and even mental illness if left unchecked and untreated.  The term pyrrole refers to an abnormal production of a chemical made in the body called pyrroles and it’s these excessive pyrroles that deliberately bind to certain nutrients making them unavailable for use in the body.

Pyrrole disorder is also know as or referred to as any of the following terms:...

The Road Back Program

Dr. Schwartz has done extensive training for supporting and balancing brain chemistry in patients with anxiety, depression and insomnia and helping them to safely and effectively get off of medications. She incorporates a number of different modalities including nutritional and dietary intervention, neurotransmitter support, hormone balancing, Alpha-stim technology, and various other techniques to successfully get patients back on track....

Safe & Sound Protocol

The Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) is a powerful listening therapy designed to help regulate the nervous system, so you can better connect with yourself, others and the world around you. Subconsciously, your nervous system is always looking for cues of safety from other people through things like body language, facial expression or tone of voice. But if you have a harder time interpreting these cues of safety due to....
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