Your mental health feels... complicated.
Luckily, you don’t have to figure it out alone.
Welcome to care that sees complexity as a strength.
Medication + psychotherapy in CA and MN
Your mental health treatment shouldn’t be another thing you have to manage.
Your therapist listens to your dreams about drowning. Your psychiatrist increases your trazodone. Neither one knows about the other, and you’re too exhausted to translate.
Your last psychiatrist labeled you “treatment resistant.” Part of you is like, Dude, treatment resists me. Another part is ashamed to be seen as a difficult patient.
You’re asked to fill out a depression screening form. But you don’t want to reduce your life to the number 14. You want to talk about Big Pharma, the nature of subjectivity, and Mercury retrograde, but there are four minutes left in the appointment.
I believe that prescribing can be relational, not transactional. When I know you more deeply, we can collaborate on treatment that lets you spend less energy managing your psyche and more on the things you actually want to do.
brain & being ~ cell & self ~ synapse & story ~ molecules & meaning ~ biology & biography ~ science & psyche ~ neurons & narrative ~ chemistry & consciousness ~ serotonin & soul ~ data & dreams ~
brain & being ~ cell & self ~ synapse & story ~ molecules & meaning ~ biology & biography ~ science & psyche ~ neurons & narrative ~ chemistry & consciousness ~ serotonin & soul ~ data & dreams ~
The meds &
the meaning.
We can start the stimulant & grieve the career you might have had if you’d been diagnosed earlier. Then we plot which class you want to take this fall — horticulture? Physics?
We can consider decreasing the antidepressant & notice that you’re scared to tell me that you don’t want to. Turns out there are a lot of people who need to hear your “no.”
We can think about a new medication & feel the fear that it will change who you are in your core. Along the way, you rediscover shades of emotion, and the poetry and painting start to flow.
We can discuss hormone replacement therapy & validate the rage against the patriarchy. You decide menopause is about fostering pit bulls and never sharing your dessert again.
Meds + Meaning in action:
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Meds have helped with your panic attacks. Now what to do with the debilitating existential dread?
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Starting hormones is the easy part. Navigating a radical midlife rebirth is where it gets interesting.
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Molecules can buffer your nervous system. Then we unpack how sensitivity shaped your story.
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.