Release the optimized you.

Mental health should not be a barrier, but the strength that drives you forward.

you can feel & live better.

• Are you living in accordance with your values? 

• Are you allowing yourself to dream? 

• You have the courage to be vulnerable, to seek help. You have the insight to recognize the disconnection between what you want and what you have. But what’s the cause of it? 

• And how can you reestablish connection with your inner self who knows exactly what needs to change?  

Optimize Psychiatry is the culmination of the holistic sum that drives optimal health and wellness. I use medications when warranted and appropriate, then focus the majority of sessions on uncovering values, strengths and heavily relied upon defenses in order to partner with clients to reveal the key to unlock their wellness. That “key” is insight.

I apply various therapeutic methods within and outside of the fields of psychology and neuroscience to help uncover (patterns, defenses, resistance, ambivalence), observe and repair what we mutually agree needs repairing. My approach is highly personalized and incorporates your own history, values and beliefs into the matrix of our treatment.

I stand behind the Hippocratic Oath to “first do no harm” and advocate for methods that nourish the body and mind. In so doing, I dedicate my practice to the process of achieving optimized mental and physical health.

In traditional psychiatry, there is an old model (“biopsychosocial”) which is helpful, but incomplete. I have adapted it to create a new model which I think better aligns with a modern understanding of mental health and is targeted, comprehensive, evidence-based, holistic, efficient and effective.  The Optimize Psychiatry Triadic System (OPTS) incorporates the main drivers of health or disease--Biochemistry, Psychology, & Lifestyle--and breaks these areas into three primary personalized and essential components for the individual, which when realigned, result in conscious access to the inner self, or the “Optimized Self”.