My yoga mat has seen me at some of my lowest physical points — a back that would seize without warning, an ankle rebuilding itself bone by bone after a fracture, and a mind that some days would not stop long enough for me to feel anything at all. It has also seen me get…

“I’ve been on three different antidepressants and none of them worked. What’s wrong with me?” I hear a version of this question constantly. And almost every time, my answer surprises people: Probably nothing is “wrong” with you. The medication just wasn’t treating the whole problem. This is the gap that integrative psychiatry exists to close.…

“This is hard,” she said, looking at the growing list in front of her — the diet changes, the supplements, the labs to recheck in three months. “Why are there so many things?” I hear this almost every day. She’d come to me for anxiety, a fatty liver that worried her more than she let…

For the past seven years, I’ve been navigating something I didn’t have a name for: night sweats that soaked through my sheets, sleep that wouldn’t come, ADHD symptoms that seemed to appear out of nowhere, a libido that had quietly vanished, and pain during sex that no one could explain. I’m a double board-certified nurse…

For decades, Western medicine has treated the mind and body as two separate systems — one for the therapist’s office, one for the doctor’s. A growing body of research, along with the work of physicians like Gabor Maté, is showing that separation was never accurate. Unresolved trauma and chronic stress don’t just live in our…

Psychedelic medicine has moved from the fringes of psychiatry into some of the most closely watched clinical trials in mental health today. Psilocybin, the compound found in certain mushrooms, is now being studied for treatment-resistant depression and PTSD at major research centers — and a newer thread of that research is starting to ask what…

“Bioidentical” describes a molecule, not a pharmacy or a marketing category — and many bioidentical hormones are FDA-approved and available at any regular pharmacy.

Your gut microbiome — specifically an enzyme called beta-glucuronidase — helps determine how much estrogen stays in circulation, with effects that reach your thyroid and mood too.

You walk into a room and forget why. You lose your train of thought mid-sentence. Words you have used your whole life suddenly feel just out of reach. If this is new, and it started around the same time as other changes in your 40s, you may be wondering: is this perimenopause, or is this…

If antidepressants have not fully resolved your anxiety or low mood, and your symptoms started or worsened around the time your cycle began changing, you might be wondering whether hormone therapy could help. It is a fair question, and the answer is more nuanced than a simple yes or no. The connection between hormones and…