Integrative Solutions for Mental Health: Frequently Asked Questions

Here at Integrative Mental Health center, we use homeopathic medicine as the main method of treatment to help our patients with mental health concerns because we find that it is the safety, safest, the most efficacious, and the fastest way to get positive results.

There are many different approaches to the practice of medicine. And what makes a naturopathic doctor different is that we focus on prevention and trying to understand the root cause of your symptoms so that we can treat that and actually help you recover from your symptoms and feel like yourself again. Naturopathic doctors are trained in four year medical programs. We are licensed to diagnose and treat, we can prescribe medications. Naturopathic doctors in the state of Arizona are also able to do minor surgery protocols. And we can work with you and your primary care physician or your psychiatrist to help you understand your medications and ultimately maybe taper off of them. Naturopathic doctors use a lot of modalities in order to accomplish this. Some doctors lean towards acupuncture, botanical medicine, hydrotherapy. Some do focus on prescription meds. And here at our office, we focus especially on homeopathic medicine for treating mental health.

There are thousands of homeopathic remedies. And when you come in, what we're going to be doing is looking through all of your symptoms and finding the perfect fit for your health concerns. And so we need to take a lot of time with you and really invest in order to find that perfect fit for you.

You do not have to taper down on your medications before coming in and starting homeopathic treatment. In fact, we actually prefer if our patients do not change any of their medications before coming in. That way we're able to help you actually raise your baseline so, so that your symptoms are better before you start to reduce your medications. We can assist with this process as naturopathic doctors are able to prescribe many different medications, or we can work with your primary care doctor to do this.

Compared to traditional medications, homeopathic medicine is extremely effective for managing psychiatric conditions. In fact, we see 80 to 85% of patients improve within the first month of treatment.

One of the things I love the most about homeopathy is that it actually gets to the root of your symptoms and it will help your body actually get healthier so that you can go into symptom remission. So, so the point of homeopathic medicine is to help you get well. And many of our patients are able to do this and just continue taking their homeopathic remedies and still maintain the benefits that they had from treatment.

Most of our patients will follow up once per month sometimes. If your needs increase, we can follow up more often as needed. Or if things improve a lot over time, then we don't have to follow up once a month at all. You might only need to come in, you know, every so often throughout the year.

There are many advantages to using homeopathic medicine over conventional medications. The first is that homeopathic medicine is incredibly affordable, with your average remedy costing about $7. Homeopathic medicines are also incredibly safe. There are no side effects with which is a key benefit. Many patients come into our office expressing concern about feeling over medicated or experiencing the side effects of their conventional prescriptions. There are no side effects on homeopathic remedies, and they can actually help remit your side effects so that you're feeling better on your existing protocol. Homeopathic medicines are also completely safe to use in pregnancy. In pediatrics, there are no interactions with other prescriptions that you might be taking.

A lot of our patients come from out of state and they can either fly in or we can do video consultations, which is great because then we can see your expressions while you're talking. Or if that's not an option, we can do phone consultations. And we like for our out of state patients to have local physician that we can collaborate with so that we can make sure that if needed, you can do a physical examination and then we can manage everything else over the phone or video.

We are considered out of network providers and so what we recommend is that if you have any questions about coverage for your care here in our office, we always tell our patients to go to their insurance carrier and ask what kind of plan you have and if it covers alternative medicine. One of the primary causes of mental health concerns are traumatic events. Whether it's a big trauma or lots of little traumas, these things actually cause changes in the brain and the body. We found clinically that there aren't very many things that can actually correct that underlying imbalance. But what we do know is that counseling and homeopathy are effective treatments. Homeopathy can actually go in and correct that underlying imbalance so that the symptoms of the trauma are no longer there and the patient can start to feel better again.

The prognosis with homeopathic treatment is excellent. Your symptoms really can go away. And what we find improves prognosis is using a combination of therapies at once. So a combination of homeopathic medicine, counseling, and an active, healthy lifestyle with exercise and good nutrition, all those things can improve your chances of really becoming healthy and well.

The prognosis is quite outstanding with homeopathic medicine. In fact, we have seen patients with schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder and and bipolar disorder go into remission with the right homeopathic protocol. Even after tapering down on their medications, a lot of our patients are able to go on feeling symptom free and feeling like themselves. For some words of encouragement, we recommend that you go to our webpage and watch the testimonial videos and you could also read testimonials from patients who have benefited from homeopathic approaches to mental health.

In our office, there really is real hope for real remission.