Integrative Mental Health
A holistic approach to wellness, blending physical, psychological, and sleep-focused methods for comprehensive health
Integrative Mental Health with a Focus on Sleep
What is a Certified Mental Health Integrative Medicine Provider? Integrative Mental Health combines conventional therapies with complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), addressing the mind, body, and spirit for overall wellness. As a Certified Mental Health Integrative Medicine Provider, our holistic approach now places a special emphasis on sleep, recognizing its critical role in mental and physical health. The program does emphasize Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBTI) as a cornerstone of treatment. Alongside CBTI, we integrate CAM practices like nutrition, yoga nidra, and mindfulness to enhance overall well-being, recognizing that good sleep is foundational to health. This integrative method ensures a comprehensive wellness journey, attending to every aspect of your being.
Integrated Approaches with a Focus on Sleep
Tracking
Monitor daily food, mood, and sleep patterns with our worksheet. Identify how behaviors and emotions connect with sleep quality, helping you recognize healthy and unhealthy habits.
Nutrition
When we eat good, we feel good. What we eat does impact our mental and physical health. Learn more about nutrition affects your mental well-being and sleep, and discover foods that promote better sleep quality.
Yoga, CAM and Art
Yoga, acupuncture, bodywork, somatic exercises, blue light blocking sunglasses, and art exercises are just a few of the exercises that may help with your wellness and sleep journey.
Coaching
Will have a coach walking side-by-side with you on this wellness journey to help you unlock your potential for better sleep and mental health.
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Disclaimer: This is not a weight loss program
Brief introduction to Ayurvedic Nutrition
Ayurveda is the science of life. It’s the sister science to yoga; an ancient tool for balance and wholeness. With Ayurveda, digestion starts with the mind; while in western nutrition, it starts with the mouth. There are forces in nature that impact our physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual wellbeing. These forces are called Gunas. In Ayurveda, the forces are rajas, tamas and sattva. Rajas is the doing or kinetic energy of the world. Tamas is the potential energy or the not doing. Sattva is a balance between the doing and not doing. Ayurveda looks at 5 elements to explain the constitution of different things. These elements are earth, water, fire, air and ether. They make up our dosha or constitution. There are 3 doshas: vata, pitta and kapha. Knowing your dosha can help you have a nutritional balance and wholeness that is right for you.
Brief introduction to Yoga
Yoga means union/unite or to yoke. Hatha yoga is often used for exercise or stress relief. There are 8 limbs of yoga that help still the mind and body: Yama (abstinence), Niyama (observance), Asana (posture practice), Pranayama (breath control), Pratyahara (sense withdrawal), Dharana (concentration), Dhyana (meditation) and Samadhi(contemplation, absorption and superconscious state). Yoga practices that help in quieting the mind and promoting a state conducive to sleep.
Yoga Nidra or yogic sleep
It’s the state between wake and sleeping. It is different than meditation. Yoga Nidra is when the body and mind are at rest and the consciousness is awake. This practice is done by resting comfortably in savasana (corpse pose) and having the teacher guide you through stages of self, leaving you with a sense of wholeness and deeper state of relaxation. Great benefit for reduction of stress and anxiety, and enhancing your sleep quality, leaving you feel whole and deeply relaxed.