Mental Health Specialist

What is mental health?

Mental health is an essential aspect of your total wellness. Your mental health affects your physical and spiritual health, and vice versa. When striving to achieve optimal wellness, you must protect and treat your mental health just as you do your body when you have pain or other symptoms. 

An integrative approach to mental health appreciates how nutrition, lifestyle choices, health habits, genetics, behavior patterns, and physical conditions impact how you think and feel. A functional medicine approach uncovers the root causes of mental health conditions like anxiety, depression, and mood disorders. 

Dr. Kapoor and the ARA Integrative and Functional Medicine team prevent and treat mental health conditions by combining conventional and alternative methods using a highly personalized plan of care that fits your needs. 

What impacts my mental health?

Many factors can impact your mental health and cause unhealthy thoughts and emotional patterns, including medications, food, drugs and alcohol, toxic exposure, traumatic events, stress, and poor sleep. 

Conditions that can also impact your mental health include: 

• Obesity
• Adrenal fatigue and imbalance
• Metabolic disorders
• Cancer
• Chronic fatigue
• Autoimmune disease
• Sleep disorders
• Hormone imbalances 
• Nutritional deficits or imbalances 

A vital part of assessing and treating your mental health is uncovering the factors that cause or exacerbate your symptoms. Dr. Kapoor commits to equipping and empowering you to find what negatively affects your mental health and overcome those factors. 

What are the treatments for poor mental health?

Dr. Kapoor uses an integrative and functional medicine approach to protecting and treating your mental health, ensuring your customized treatment plan addresses your unique underlying causes and specific symptoms.

Your treatment plan may include: 

• Psychotherapy 
• Medications
• Detoxification
• Laboratory testing
• Natural supplements
• Dietary changes 
• Stress management
• Weight loss
• Lifestyle changes
• Genetic testing

To prevent mental illness and maintain optimal mental health, Dr. Kapoor works with you long-term, adjusting your treatment plan as your mental and emotional needs shift and life circumstances change. Protecting your mental health means making healthy decisions daily and minimizing factors that could negatively impact your thoughts and emotions. The ARA Integrative and Functional Medicine team is with you every step of the way and works alongside your primary care provider and/or any mental health care provider. 

For a holistic, systemic approach to your mental health, call or schedule an appointment with ARA Integrative and Functional Medicine today.