Rxfunctionalpsychiatry

02/22/2024

- Our loss is your gain!

02/01/2024

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12/25/2023

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11/06/2023

Nov 6, 2023 - 7:30 AM ~ Dec 1, 2023 - 8:00 AM - Shop our black friday deal all month! This deal will give you 30% of all our infusions booked from now until the end of November! Valid for as many uses as you want this month! Only available on infusions- not available for our injection treatments. Do...

09/25/2023

09/14/2023

I have been getting the question a lot and would love to educate you on what functional psychiatry actually is!

I have been working as a psychiatric nurse practitioner and as a functional medicine provider for over 4 years. My psychiatric NP job has been in the traditional medical world where I see patients and prescribe medications to treat psychiatric illnesses. In my work in the functional medicine realm of medicine I work to find the root causes for symptoms and diseases. Most of my functional medicine patients also have psychiatric diagnoses. I look at the whole person, and all the symptoms in all places of the body (not just the brain) to figure out where the dysfunction is happening. Once we find and treat that, the symptoms in the rest of the body improve, if not resolve.

I have basically decided to bring both worlds and my passion together more formally. As a functional psychiatric nurse practitioner (a new term I basically gave myself but describes best what I do) I look for the root causes for psychiatric illness. I still prescribe psychiatric medications as I do find them helpful in many cases but I also look at a lot of other factors involved such as nutritional deficiencies, gut dysfunction, toxins, bacteria, viruses, hormone imbalances, and lifestyle factors that could be contributing to brain inflammation. I look at the whole person, not just the brain to treat patients.

Basically the traditional medical world does not allow me to practice in this fashion so I had to go outside of it and create my own practice so that I could treat patients the way I felt was best.

Please Share so we can educate patients on a better way of care and make functional psychiatry the norm instead of the exception!

09/09/2023

Amen 💗🙏🏻

09/05/2023

09/02/2023

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08/31/2023

Complete transparency story:

A couples months ago I was considering giving up on my dream of running a successful functional medicine practice. Starting something from scratch and trying to make a living out of it is HARD work and I was getting tired of fighting for it. I was still also working my full time NP job and was ready to just do that… it was easier. I didn’t believe in the model of care but it was at least providing us a good sustainable income with benefits and I could do it without the added stress of trying to grow the business and take care of 3 kids.

Then I got laid off from my NP job… the company I was working for was not doing well and lost a lot of its facility contracts so they did multiple layoffs. At first I was devastated… I’d never been layed off before and I didn’t know how we were going to make ends meet without my paycheck. Right after I was layed off I went for a long walk to clear my head… I started the walk crying and ended it laughing. You see, God has a plan for you and me, and sometimes it takes a loss for you to see the plan. I was laughing because God took away what I thought I wanted to show me that building a practice that helps people in a way that I am passionate about is what I am supposed to be doing full time. It’s scary… it might not work… but I know now I have to try. It’s now all I have and I can put more focus into growing it.

Next question I’m pondering and could use your help with… should I open a physical office space to see patients in person??? Let me know your thoughts!!