What is Integrative Psychiatry?

An integrative approach to psychiatry pairs your prescriber’s evidence-based medication management with functional medicine investigation, nutritional psychiatry, lifestyle medicine, and mind-body interventions. It treats medication as one important tool among several, not the default first and only line. We do not prescribe or manage medication ourselves; we provide the biological picture that helps your prescriber make the most informed decisions.

Within our practice, an integrative approach to psychiatry includes:

• Information for medication review. A clear picture of every medication you’re currently taking — dose, timing, indication, and how it interacts with the rest of your regimen — organized so your prescriber can review it efficiently.

• Context for polypharmacy decisions. Many patients with treatment-resistant presentations end up on three, four, or more psychiatric medications. We surface the biological context that helps your prescriber assess whether each medication is still earning its place, and where consolidation might be worth exploring.

• Support for deprescribing conversations. As functional medicine work addresses the underlying biological drivers, some medications may become candidates for careful tapering. Any change is decided and managed by your prescriber, slowly and carefully — we contribute the functional-medicine findings that inform the conversation.

• Supplement-medication interaction screening. Many supplements interact significantly with psychiatric medications. We screen carefully and design supplement recommendations to avoid problematic interactions, flagging anything relevant for your prescriber.

• Pharmacogenomic insight. Genetic variants affect how you metabolize medications. We use 3×4 Genetics data to inform conversations with your prescriber about medication choice and dosing.

• Lifestyle medicine integration. Movement, sleep architecture, circadian rhythm, mind-body practices — yoga, tai chi, meditation, somatic work, breathwork — all have measurable effects on mental health that work synergistically with medication and functional medicine.