You are a bioindividual, so it’s essential to find out what works best for you.

There is no cookie-cutter approach to enhancing health.

Treating survivors of trauma is both labor-intensive and a labor of love.

The practitioner is constantly challenged to listen, believe, and avoid unduly influencing or interfering. We are compelled to do no harm, self-reflect, and protect the safety and boundaries of the professional relationship.

The restoration of balance within these forces—whether called yin and yang, ida and pingala, or parasympathetic and sympathetic—is at the heart of Eastern and Western medical traditions alike.

The autonomic nervous system is composed of three branches: the sympathetic, the parasympathetic, and the most recently identified, the ventral vagal complex or social nervous system.

Trauma disrupts endogenous rhythmic cycles of function, and cyclic movement is replaced by a state of fixation. This is well established by conventional medicine as reflected in the concepts of autonomic hyperarousal and hyper/hypoactivity of the hypothalamic-adrenal-pituitary axis.

Bioindividuality is the foundation of truly personalized care. It recognizes that each person has unique genetic, biochemical, cultural, and environmental influences that shape how they respond to food, medications, and lifestyle practices.

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Read more in my Psychology Today post, The Healing Power of Nature: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/rhyt...

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By adding the lens of nutrition, diet, and digestion to your clinical toolbox, you will forever change your approach to client care and enhance the efficacy of all your other methods.

Nutrition is the missing link in mental health treatment.

In my practice, I engage clients by exploring their favorite myths or fairy tales and the meanings these stories hold for them. Adults often recall stories from their childhood that helped them navigate difficult times, and these narratives can become central themes in their healing process.

This approach does not separate the presenting symptoms of mind and body but, instead, puts these manifestations of distress and strength together, as one does a jigsaw puzzle.

Integrative medicine and nutrition incorporate the fields of counseling, somatic work, and talk therapy with a range of mind-body-spirit methods that address the needs of the whole person.