Functional Medicine & Integrative Psychiatry in Alaska

Together, we investigate why symptoms are happening and how your unique experience is shaping your well-being. This includes comprehensive history, lifestyle, and environment mapping, metabolic and hormone screening, and other specialized lab testing to build a personalized treatment plan tailored specifically to your biochemistry.

Combining conventional psychiatry with an integrative medical approach, I offer diagnostic clinical assessments, psychiatric symptom monitoring, and a wide array of treatments. If prescriptions are part of your plan, I utilize them with precision and radical transparency—continually evaluating how they interact with your broader metabolism, hormones, and lifestyle to optimize your brain chemistry.

When your body struggles to regulate blood sugar, insulin, and systemic inflammation, your cognitive function is often the first thing to suffer—frequently pairing with stubborn weight management hurdles. Moving beyond standard laboratory reference ranges, I look for optimal biomarkers to identify hidden metabolic roadblocks. Together, we work to repair underlying metabolic dysfunction and support healthy weight optimization, providing your brain and body with a steady, reliable fuel supply.

Your brain consumes roughly 20% of your body's total energy. If your mitochondria—the powerhouses of your cells—are under-functioning, you will feel it immediately as persistent brain fog, fatigue, and even depression or anxiety. I design targeted protocols to support mitochondrial health, clear out neuroinflammation, and restore your baseline physical stamina from the cellular level up.

Your brain relies on steady hormonal signaling to regulate focus, mood, and daily drive. I evaluate the critical communication pathways between your brain, thyroid, adrenal glands, and sex hormones. By targeting subtle deficiencies and cortisol imbalances, I help you lift cognitive fog and restore your natural stamina.

Your gut-brain axis directly dictates your energy, hormones, and mental clarity. Moving past restrictive fad diets, I focus on foundational feeding principles and your biochemical individuality to design anti-inflammatory, nutrient-dense strategies to optimize your digestion, stabilize blood sugar, and clear out systemic inflammation.

High-quality, evidence-based supplements provide your body with the raw building blocks required for hormone and neurotransmitter production, cellular repair, and optimal function. I build precise, targeted clinical nutraceutical and botanical protocols based strictly on your individual biochemistry and objective lab data.

Chronic stress suppresses your digestion, alters hormone production and function, and exhausts your body's energy reserves. I teach you practical, evidence-based tools to actively reset your autonomic nervous system from the bottom up, re-training your body to navigate professional and personal stressors without burning out.

Restorative rest is a biological imperative for cellular health and recovery. Instead of using sedatives that merely mask symptoms, I investigate your circadian rhythms and evening cortisol patterns to rebuild your natural sleep architecture, resolving morning grogginess and restoring deep, non-disrupted sleep.

True longevity and brain health require a precise balance of strength training, Zone 2 conditioning, targeted intervals, and mobility work. I help you design progressive physical activity strategies that build lean muscle mass and cardiovascular endurance without causing burnout. For those struggling with chronic fatigue, we strategically balance your physical energy—starting with somatic tools to safely regulate your nervous system before progressively upgrading your body's physical capacity.

Human beings are biologically wired for connection. While meaningful relationships actively stabilize your nervous system and immune health, chronic loneliness and interpersonal stress act as severe biological drivers of chronic illness. I help you objectively assess your relational landscape, teaching you practical behavioral tools to build protective boundaries and foster the supportive communities your body needs to truly heal.

True wellness means using the least amount of medication necessary to achieve the best long-term quality of life. I provide cautious, skillful, and highly individualized guidance to help you safely reduce or discontinue medications that are no longer needed, not helping, or causing unacceptable side effects. Because stopping certain medications involves careful risk-benefit analysis and strategic planning to monitor your stability, discontinuation itself is never the ultimate goal—your long-term vitality is.