When you begin a functional medicine mental health program, everything starts changing at once — your labs reveal things you didn’t expect, your supplements reshape how you feel in your body, and the way you think about your own health starts shifting underneath you. Dr. Gretchen Kubacky is the person who helps you make sense of all of it.
As the health psychologist on the FxMed Mental Health team, Dr. Kubacky works alongside Dr. Wiss and Dr. Bickford at every phase of your program — not as a separate therapy track, but as the clinical bridge between what your labs say and what you actually experience day to day. She’s the one who helps you stay with the protocol when it gets hard, process what it means when your results challenge the story you’ve been told about your health, and build the psychological resilience that complex, phased treatment demands.
Her work addresses what most practices never touch: the emotional weight of navigating a health identity shift, the friction that shows up around protocol adherence, and the deeper patterns — around stress, control, grief, and self-worth — that surface when your biology starts changing faster than your mind can keep up. This is not talk therapy bolted onto a supplement plan. It’s an integrated clinical role that makes the rest of the work stick.
Dr. Kubacky is a licensed clinical health psychologist with advanced training in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, somatic and Gestalt approaches, and Mindfulness-Based Stress Management. She is a Certified Master Hypnotist and Certified Bereavement Facilitator. Her clinical perspective is shaped by decades of work with chronic and invisible illness, trauma, and the compulsive and relational patterns that emerge under sustained physiological stress. She is the author of The PCOS Mood Cure and Moving Through Grief, and writes The Irreverent Psychologist on Substack.
She brings all of this to bear in service of one thing: helping you tolerate, integrate, and ultimately benefit from the deep changes this program asks of you.