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
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. Maybe some ginger shots and cold plunges on a good week.
You used to suck the marrow. You used to call your friends to 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 podcasts about hormones. The productivity planners and gratitude journals. The IG feed full of tips about vulnerable communication and nerve flossing.
You had ambitions about changing the world, but now it’s hard just to change the sheets.
It would be so much easier if you could just figure it out on your own.
You’re smart enough to know what you're supposed to do, so why can't you just do it? Better to order The Myth of Normal, look up theacrine and methylliberine, and try the next 30-day cortisol detox challenge than risk being misunderstood by some dismissive psychiatrist.
Thing is, deep down, you know this cocktail of LMNT electrolytes, EFT tapping, and PEMF mats is an incoherent alphabet soup of desperation, and the only real result is… expensive urine.
There’s no hub of this self-help wheel, just spinning. You know the wellness industrial complex is problematic, that Claude isn’t a therapist, that healing happens in relationsh—actually, nevermind. Healing definitely happens researching on the internet.
Because no one’s going to get it. The way your mind sees everything at once, the way you feel the world’s pain, the way you connect disparate dots.
Are you too complex and sensitive for treatment?
Or has treatment not been complex and sensitive enough for you?
Enter: Cell & Self
A 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. (Yes, ampersands are happening.)
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 “no”?
We can think about a new medication & feel the fear that it will change who you are in your core. Shall we dive into the existential grappling?
We can discuss hormone replacement therapy & hear all your rage against the patriarchy. What are you going to name your menopause-themed band?
When we combine medication and therapy, molecular support can be relational, not reductive.
I love science. I’m that nerd who feels awe learning about the structure of serotonin receptors, and I am grateful for the life-saving discoveries of the medical model.
But a purely materialist framework doesn’t cover everything, especially when it comes to the mind. There are things that science cannot measure or force into neat categories.
“Complimentary and alternative” methods address what MRIs cannot see, labs cannot detect. Dreams speak to us in symbols, plants effect us energetically—this is another valid level.
Just as science has its limits, so does “mind over matter.” We stay grounded as we explore all the options, from evidence-based to esoteric.
You’re not a machine to be fixed.
You’re a human to be understood.
The Cell & Self model can meet you as you are.
If you want the deep benefits of medication + therapy, I’d love to have a convo.