Integrative Psychiatry

Integrative psychiatry is a holistic approach that cares for your mental health while also supporting any physical, emotional, and social challenges you face. The team at Westwood Psychiatry Associates in Westwood, New Jersey, offers integrative care that goes beyond treating your current psychiatric symptoms. They provide preventive care and take steps to promote optimal wellness in all aspects of your life. To learn about the many benefits of integrative psychiatry, call the office or request an in-person or telepsychiatry appointment online today.

What is integrative psychiatry?

Integrative psychiatry goes beyond simply treating your mental health symptoms. Instead, the team of integrative psychiatrists at Westwood Psychiatry Associates takes a holistic approach that focuses on improving your mental and physical health because they share a direct connection. You can’t achieve and maintain wellness in one without also caring for the other.

The goal of integrative psychiatry is to understand all the aspects of your life that contribute to your mental health concerns. After identifying all the underlying causes of your symptoms, your provider combines conventional Western medicine treatments with complementary mind-body therapies, carefully creating individualized, whole-body care.

What conditions are treated with integrative psychiatry?

Westwood Psychiatry Associates uses integrative psychiatry to treat the full range of mental health disorders, along with the many challenges people face in daily life, including:

• Stress management
• Life transitions
• Relationship challenges
• Grief
• Trauma
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Bipolar disorder
• Insomnia
• Psychosis
• Substance abuse
• Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

With a focus on restoring and maintaining physical, mental, emotional, social, and functional health, integrative psychiatry can help you overcome any challenge and move forward into a fulfilling life.

What diagnostics are included in integrative psychiatry?

After discussing your medical history, lifestyle, and symptoms, you may need more than a psychiatric evaluation. Your provider may recommend diagnostic testing that you wouldn’t typically expect during a psychiatric evaluation.

The only way to strengthen your natural mind-body connection, is to explore potential health concerns where the two intersect. For example, gut bacteria, nutritional deficiencies, and body-wide inflammation have a direct impact on the health of your brain and its ability to produce neurotransmitters.

As a result, your therapist may run tests to evaluate these and other aspects of your health before creating a treatment plan.

What treatments are used in integrative psychiatry?

Your treatment is customized to meet all your challenges and may include one or more of the following:

• Conventional medication
• Psychotherapy (talk therapy)
• Nutritional counseling
• Dietary supplements
• Guided imagery
• Mind-body therapies (like yoga and tai chi)
• Exercise and fitness regimen
• Stress-reduction techniques
• Meditation and relaxation training

Westwood Psychiatry Associates treat the symptoms of your mental health condition, while building on your strengths and teaching skills that build resilience and help you find meaning in your life.

To learn more about integrative psychiatry and how it can help you, call Westwood Psychiatry Associates or book an appointment online today.