Cell & Self
Welcome to psychiatry that sees complexity as a strength.
Medication + psychotherapy in CA and MN
When did life become about coping instead of creating?
These days, all of your energy goes towards keeping yourself duct taped together with a random smattering of alternate nostril breathing, mitochondrial supplements, and binaural beats.
You used to suck the marrow. You used to call your friends to snort-laugh and plot the revolution; now you're just checking a self-care box called "reach out."
You want to feel stoked again. But how is that possible when managing your mind has become a full-time job? The LMNT electrolytes, EFT tapping, PEMF mats. It’s starting to feel like an incoherent alphabet of desperation.
You had ambitions about changing the world. Now it’s a campaign just to change the sheets.
You’ve been trying to do everything on your own.
You’re smart enough to know what you're supposed to do, so you figure you’ll just do it. Better to order Women Who Run with the Wolves than risk being misunderstood by some blank slate psychiatrist who forgets your name.
Endless researching on the internet stays safely anonymous. The second you make an appointment, you’ll have to try to explain the way you feel the personal, political, and spiritual levels all at the same time.
Will they be able to track your “tangents” about Macklemore/late capitalism/that girl from third grade, or will they look at you like you’re crazy? You’d rather write in your journal than mention the Greenland ice sheet to a mental health professional and get a knee-jerk Zoloft prescription in response.
Are you too complex and sensitive for treatment?
Or has treatment not been complex and sensitive enough for you?
Enter: Cell & Self
Psychiatric practice that combines medication & therapy to hold you in all your multitudinous glory.
Cell & Self brings molecules & meaning into the same room, with biology & biography both in play. (Get ready for all the ampersands.)
We can start the stimulant & grieve the career you might have had if you’d been diagnosed earlier. Now which adult ed class do you want to take?
We can consider decreasing the antidepressant & notice that you’re scared to tell me that you don’t want to. Who else needs to hear your “hell no”?
We can think about a new medication & feel the fear that it will change who you are in your core. Is existential grappling your love language, too?
We can discuss hormone replacement therapy & welcome your rage against the patriarchy. What are you going to name your menopause-themed punk band? The Hags? Love it.
As combined treatment makes headway on your symptoms, you finally get some traction. What will you do with all the time, mental space, and energy you get back?
Because you know what's a lot more interesting than researching supplements? Researching your screenplay.
You know what's a lot more meaningful than trying to get your psychiatrist to coordinate with your therapist? Coordinating a potluck with your neighbors.
You know what's a lot more fun than filling out worksheets about anxiety? Literally anything.
The things that light you up are still in there. We’ll find them.
Cell & Self takes all the mental-health juggling off your plate, freeing you up to create your life again.
You’re not a machine to be fixed.
You’re a human to be understood.
If you want the deep benefits of medication + therapy, I’d love to have a convo.