Shari B. Kaplan, LCSWIntegrative Mental Health

How to Treat Mental Health at the Root Cause #mentalhealthawareness

7 May 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief excerpt, Shari B. Kaplan, LCSW, contrasts the treatment model used at the Amen Clinic with the approach employed at her own center. She emphasizes a root‑cause framework that seeks to identify where mental‑health issues originate and then “repair” both the body and the psychology. The method involves strengthening a patient’s existing strengths to offset deficits, and using imprinting‑like interventions to rewrite the traumatic memory experience, much as athletes’ performances can be altered through mental rehearsal. The overall message is that by addressing underlying physiological and psychological factors, lasting mental‑health improvement can be achieved.

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But when it comes to treating patients that we're talking about, like the way that you treat patients at the Amen Clinic, the way that we treat patients at our center, I think is very different because we're really going in for the root cause and where are things coming from and how do we actually get in and help you do the repair work? Like, let's repair the body. Let's repair the psychology. What's going on for you? How do we strengthen your strengths? To help you overcome the deficits and how do we repair what was there? Because what we're traumatized by is our experience of what we experienced, right? Because it doesn't exist anymore. So much like you can change an athlete's experience of their athletic event by using imprinting and changing what was going on, we can do the same thing with mental health. [MUSIC] [MUSIC]