Integrative Psychiatry for Insomnia Relief in California
Restore your nights. Reclaim your days. If you’re struggling with sleeplessness, you don’t have to suffer through it alone. I offer a holistic path toward deep, natural sleep.
Request a Consultation →Understanding Insomnia and Its Impact
Insomnia isn’t just an occasional bad night’s sleep — it’s a persistent difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep, or waking too early. You might lie awake with a racing mind or find yourself staring at the clock at 3 AM.
As nights of poor sleep add up, the effects spill into your days: fatigue, irritability, and trouble focusing. Insomnia raises stress hormones, weakens immunity, and increases the risk for depression, anxiety, and even heart disease.
The good news? No matter the cause — stress, hormone shifts, chronic pain, trauma, or anxiety — there are many ways to heal. With the right support, I can help you sleep naturally again.
Why Choose an Integrative Approach to Insomnia?
Prescription sleep medications can offer relief, but they rarely solve the deeper issues that keep you up at night. That’s why I look beyond pills to address the root causes of insomnia — physically, emotionally, and neurologically.
My integrative approach combines modern psychiatry with evidence-based holistic care. Whether your insomnia stems from stress, hormone shifts, sleep habits, or nervous system dysregulation, we’ll work together to treat it from every angle.
I assess your sleep, health, and lifestyle to uncover the real causes of your insomnia — and tailor treatment to you.
Together, we address stress, nutrition, hormone balance, and sleep habits — not just symptoms.
I combine therapies safely — medication, therapy, herbs, and testing — to create a complete picture of healing.
Restful sleep, calmer evenings, and brighter days — not just improved numbers, but better living.
With the right care, you can stop dreading bedtime — and start looking forward to it.
Medication Management: Using Medicine Wisely for Insomnia
Medication can be helpful in breaking the cycle of insomnia — especially if you feel stuck, anxious, or depleted. I prescribe gently, using the lowest effective dose and safest available options.
We’ll review any current sleep aids (like trazodone, Ambien, or melatonin) and determine whether to adjust, taper, or replace them with more targeted support — including newer medications that work with your natural rhythms.
My goal is always the same: help you sleep better now — and build a long-term plan that doesn’t rely on pills alone.
Psychotherapy for Insomnia: Healing the Mind for Better Sleep
Your thoughts, emotions, and stress levels shape how well you sleep. That’s why I offer therapy as a central part of your treatment — to calm the mind and restore peace at night.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I) is one of the most effective tools I use. Together, we’ll shift the habits and thought patterns that keep you awake and build new ones that support deep, natural rest.
We might work through stress, trauma, anxiety, or nighttime worry — anything that’s hijacking your sleep. This is a space to be heard, supported, and gently guided toward ease.
With therapy, you don’t just get more sleep — you gain resilience, self-trust, and the emotional calm that makes rest possible.
Lifestyle Coaching: Building Sleep-Friendly Habits
Sleep isn’t just something that happens at night — it starts during the day. I’ll help you shape your daily routines to support deep rest.
We’ll look at sleep timing, light exposure, caffeine, screens, exercise, and more — and craft a gentle evening ritual that signals safety and sleep.
Small changes, consistently applied, can retrain your nervous system to expect rest — and receive it. I’ll guide you step by step.
Herbal and Plant-Based Medicine for Sleep
Sometimes nature offers the gentlest relief. I often integrate calming herbs and supplements like valerian, chamomile, lavender, or magnesium into your care plan.
These plant-based remedies don’t sedate you — they restore your nervous system’s ability to settle. A nightly herbal tea, a trace of lavender oil, or the right magnesium blend can make a real difference.
I’ll help you choose evidence-backed, high-quality products that fit your biology — and your bedtime rhythm.
Functional & Nutritional Testing
Sometimes the reason you can’t sleep lies deeper — like low magnesium, high cortisol, or an imbalanced gut. I run advanced lab tests to uncover those hidden blocks.
If we find a deficiency, food sensitivity, or blood sugar problem, I’ll address it with nutrition, lifestyle shifts, or targeted supplements — so your body can finally rest.
No guesswork. Just real answers — and a clear path to healing from the inside out.
Advanced Hormonal Testing & Balancing
Cortisol, melatonin, thyroid, progesterone — these hormones govern your sleep cycle. When they’re off, your nights suffer.
I run precise hormone panels and interpret them in context with your symptoms. Then I help you restore balance — naturally or with medication, if appropriate.
When your biochemistry supports rest, your body remembers how to sleep again.
Nutrition for Deeper, More Restful Sleep
Your sleep is built on what you eat. I’ll help you nourish your nervous system with foods that support calm, rhythm, and rest.
Anti-Inflammatory Nutrition
I guide you toward whole, anti-inflammatory foods — like leafy greens, healthy fats, and omega-3s — that reduce pain, regulate mood, and prepare the body for deep sleep.
Stable Blood Sugar = Stable Sleep
We’ll balance your meals so your blood sugar doesn’t spike or crash at night — a common cause of 2 AM wakeups. I’ll show you exactly what to eat (and when) for better rhythm.
Sleep-Supportive Nutrients
I help you boost magnesium, tryptophan, vitamin D, and other key nutrients through diet or gentle supplementation. These are the building blocks of melatonin, serotonin, and rest.
Mind-Body Medicine: Relaxation Tools That Work
I teach simple, proven techniques that calm the body, quiet the mind, and invite sleep naturally. These are tools you can use anytime, anywhere.
Learn to pause, breathe, and release the day — even in five-minute sessions. Meditation helps you stop chasing sleep and start allowing it.
This simple body-based technique releases tension so your nervous system can finally let go. Ideal for unwinding before bed.
I’ll guide you through calming nighttime visualizations and body awareness practices to ease you into sleep.
Learn breath patterns (like 4-7-8 breathing) that signal “safe to rest” — and gently reprogram your sleep reflexes.
These aren’t just relaxation tricks — they’re long-term skills. Together, we’ll find the ones that fit your body and bedtime best.
Integrating Psychedelic Experiences
Psychedelic therapy isn't about escaping — it’s about revealing what’s unresolved. If you’ve participated in ketamine, psilocybin, MDMA therapy, or a retreat, I help you process the emotional, psychological, or spiritual insights that followed.
Together, we can explore what surfaced during your experience and turn it into grounded, lasting change — especially if it helped lift mood, release trauma, or shift long-held patterns affecting your sleep.
I don’t administer psychedelics myself — but I do offer legal integration support, preparation guidance, and a compassionate, judgment-free space. Your healing journey is welcome here.
Your Personalized Path to Restful Sleep
You don’t have to live with sleepless nights and groggy days. I’ll help you identify what’s keeping you up — and create a holistic plan that restores your natural rhythm, step by step.
Whether it’s anxiety, hormones, trauma, or habits that need reworking — I’m here to listen, guide, and support you with compassion and evidence-based care.
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