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An integrative approach involves tailoring a combination of the following modalities in alignment with your values and goals. Addressing factors such as sleep habits, relationships, diet, movement, and underlying biological issues creates a healthier milieu for psychological improvement through concurrent psychotherapy, which in turn enhances physical health.

  • The assessment is an initial intake appointment to explore your goals, experience, and the root causes of your challenges, presenting you with a conceptualization of your situation that provides direction moving forward. The assessment also helps both parties learn whether partnering together would be a good fit. Depending on complexity, anywhere between a single and several appointments can also function as a brief consultation or second opinion regarding your particular circumstances.

  • How we live our days is how we live our lives—develop a day to day that facilitates well-being. Sleep, diet, movement, time in nature, relationships, and meaning all affect one another and form the foundation of health. We will attend to each of these domains in a way that feels approachable and manageable, leveraging the inextricable relationships between behavior, physiology, and psychology, and thereby minimizing usage of medication.

    From Alzheimer’s risk reduction to dreaming, sleep drives physical and emotional recovery, metabolism, cognition, and immunity, while also expressing the subconscious, and is tightly correlated with mental health outcomes.

    Food is foundational medicine, the literal building block of body, microbiome, and brain. The scientific literature continues to validate links between nutrition, metabolism, endocrinology, and mental health.

    Movement empowers the self, from mitochondria to muscle, and builds your relationship with your body. Embodiment is one of the markers of mental health and physicality can be a route to joy as well as confidence and independence throughout the lifespan.

    Nature, and especially light are essential nutrients that drive core physiologic processes and can photobiomodulation be applied to improve outcomes across domains.

    Beyond the biochemical, many of the above can represent community, isolation, control, guilt, comfort, sensuousness, and or celebration. Each of the above offers psychological as well as biological opportunities for progress in experience and understanding.

  • This is the heart of Axim Medicine. A place to not only process the past and investigate your unconscious habits, but also craft the future through the evolution of your psyche, making you more fulfilled and effective in relationships, work, and life. Various modalities geared toward felt change rather than solely insight are interwoven in alignment with your goals to address the psychological framework that symptoms arise from.

    Accelerated Resolution Therapy, psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, and Internal Family Systems are especially effective at rapidly accessing the limbic system, thereby expediting emotional change. The approach is built upon a theoretical foundation of psychodynamics, psychoanalysis, neuroscience, mindfulness traditions, and somatics.

  • Psychedelic medicine holds the potential to rapidly and durably relieve suffering as validated by modern academic research as well as thousands of years of human tradition.

    Spiritual life, whether understood as daily prayer, holding a newborn, falling in love, or seeing stars deep in the desert, is an essential part of the human experience that psychedelics can deepen access to. They have the potential to visceralize knowledge imprisoned in the mind, helping people move from knowing to feeling, providing a kind of North Star experience.

    We will discuss possible benefits and risks, frame the enterprise so as to lay a foundation for making meaning, and then process the journey. Perhaps most importantly, we will tend to the lessons learned, bringing them back to daily life.

  • More, less, faster, slower, different—why? Medications are much more than just a pill. They can symbolize stability, bygone hard times, control, clarity, dependence, and or independence. Uncertain probabilities come with the territory and ambivalence is normal. Each medication, with its virtues and limitations, has a unique role for each person at any given time in life. Pharmaceutical grade supplements may also be utilized when warranted. Together, we will seek the minimum effective dose in the context of your priorities.

  • I work frequently with founders and executives managing the pressures of responsibility, fears of failure, and challenges of leadership, who often find personal evolution goes hand in hand with enhanced performance as leaders and decision makers.

    Others come to me already in a good place but would like support in deepening a sense of meaning beyond success on paper, or clarifying values and goals during a time of transition.

    We all carry forward constructs and habits from our past into current modes of operating. While these proclivities often can drive success, they are often the very same sources of weakness or collateral damage, and often go unnoticed. Understand your scripts of thinking and feeling through principles of psychology that bear broad relevance. Make the unconscious, conscious. Coaching can help bridge the gap.

  • Human relations, intra and interpersonal, are at play in nearly every part of life. In addition to psychiatric services, I apply the insights of neuroscience and psychology to domains beyond healthcare. I consult for businesses on a range of issues including team dynamics, hiring, and leadership. I also engage with research, design, and creation further afield.

  • I have presented in a variety of settings, from various psychiatric residency training programs, physician groups, and community organizations, to the Yale Psychedelic Science Group Course on psychedelics. I enjoy teaching and communicating in nuanced yet accessible ways. Reach out if you are interested in interviewing me for a podcast, having me teach a class, or working together on other educational initiatives.