Services
Psychiatric & Medication Services
Psychiatric medications are valuable tools to treat mental health conditions, their symptoms, and to prevent recurrence. Allyson offers psychiatric evaluations and medication management.
Education
Allyson provides comprehensive and straightforward education about mental health, lifestyle modifications, and medications tailored to your learning style. She explains the benefits and the risks of all potential treatments and provides options that align with your values and goals.
Nutritional Psychiatry & Complementary Alternative Treatments
What we eat influences our emotions. Nutritional psychiatry uses nutritional approaches and supplementation to optimize mental wellness. It is used in prevention and reduction of psychiatric conditions. Exiting areas of research reveal the connections between gut health (the microbiome), brain health, and inflammation. Nutrition is essential for adaptive neuroplasticity. Allyson's approach is to learn more about your relationship to food and how to incorporate nourishing foods and sometimes supplements into your life based on simple and actionable steps. She considers your budget and lifestyle and strives to make healthy food enjoyable!
Referrals & Collaboration
Ruling out medical causes for mental illness is critical in proper diagnosing. A detailed assessment of sleep, stress, and other potential disorders that may cause mental health disturbances is evaluated. If right for you, she creates a team of qualified medical providers to guide you to optimal health. With permission, she communicates with your existing providers for continuity of care. Further, she'll provide local community resources for additional support.
Genetic & MTHFR Testing
Certain variations in our genes can affect how we break down and metabolize medications. Allyson offers pharmacogenetic testing that analyzes these variations in our DNA and allows us to make informed decisions about prescribing certain psychiatric medications.
Brief Psychotherapy
Allyson utilizes an integrative psychotherapy approach that blends many modalities into most treatment sessions. These include CBT, supportive therapy, motivational interviewing, interpersonal neurobiology, existential therapy, and psychodynamic therapy. We do not offer stand-alone therapy and offer referrals to qualified and skilled therapists to help meet your wellness goals.