Treatment
Mental health is physical health.
Our motto for clinical care at Aaram Health is medicus tractare, natura sanat – the physician treats, and nature heals. Our treatment approach seeks to deeply understand the patient and their context, including their comprehensive medical history, cultural and ethnic heritage, and their sense of spirituality and the sacred.
We meet regularly (weekly or every other week) over 50-minute telemedicine sessions to form a deep and understanding relationship between patient and clinician.
Together, we determine the best combination of tools for you to heal. We use a range of tools to promote healing, including psychotherapy through relational dialogue, guided breathwork, and careful use of medication therapy (molecular neuropharmacology).
The Aarām Method
Molecule to Movement
Depth psychiatry aims is a minimally-invasive approach to the psyche, (as deep as tolerated but no further) in order to advance the well-being of the patient through processing and metabolizing emotions to treat life stress. Sessions at Aaram Health are a space where you are met with understanding, warmth, and honesty.
These are some of the key scientific concepts we use in treatment:
Attunement
Attunement involves receptive listening, conversational immersion, and feeling and mirroring emotion. Our therapy seeks to understand the client’s perspective, thinking, and what gives them a sense of meaning.
Field
In therapy, the patient and doctor influence each other’s subjective experience. The dynamic flow of matter–energy and information organizes and reorganizes the field with infinite degrees of freedom. Fields form spontaneously and require an attitude of present-centered, “cultivated uncertainty.”
The Stress Axis
Stress is processed through a system in the body called the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) Axis. The HPA axis sends out neurohormones to organ systems the body through the vagus (“wandering”) nerve, affecting mood, heart rate, and the immune response.
Neuroplasticity
Neurons are cells that carry essential electrical information across the body. At any age, neurons can grow and form new connections. Promoting the growth of new neuronal connections can promote positive shifts in emotional processing.
The Transcendent Function
We open a dialogue between the conscious and unconscious mind to enable psychological growth. This welcoming exchange between conscious and unconscious generates the possibility of reframing pathology from the past on new terms.
“All that you touch
You Change.
All that you Change
Changes you.
The only lasting truth
Is Change.”