Michelle Indianer,
D.O.
250
Blossom Hill Road
Suite 101
Los Gatos, California, 95032
phone (408) 395-4117
fax (408) 395-1441
Suite 101
Los Gatos, California, 95032
phone (408) 395-4117
fax (408) 395-1441
MindBody Psychiatry and Health
Optimization
MindBody
Psychiatry is an approach to patient care that looks at the whole
person, also known as Integrative Psychiatry. I like to use the word
"wholistic" rather than the more common spelling
holistic to emphasize a complete approach without "holes". This is also
known as the Bio-Psycho-Socio-Spiritual Approach to
Psychiatry. This is the only way I know to truly help a person
reach a healthy and satisfying way of life. Too often medicine is
compartmentalized and the whole person is not truly seen by his or her
physician. I am a second generation Osteopathic Physician.
The modeling I learned from my father who was a
Family Physician and the perspective I learned in medical school
looked at the whole mindbody connection. My style is to seek
ways to help a patient reach optimum health through looking at multiple
approaches to their care including body based therapies, conventional
"allopathic" medicine, and nutritional medicine.
I am trained as a General Adult Psychiatrist and completed a Fellowship in Substance Abuse Treatment. I worked a few years as the Assistant Unit Chief of the Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Center at the Palo Alto VA Medical Center. I obtained my Board Certification in Psychiatry opened my private practice of Psychiatry in Los Gatos, California in 1988. From the beginning I have helped my patients seek optimal health, co-treating with their general doctor. In the past decade I have been called upon more often to make suggestions for more complete diagnostic work ups and general health care for my patients. It became obvious to me in the last several years that I needed to address issues of thyroid disease, adrenal dysfunction and bioidentical hormone replacement therapy to help optimize outcomes for healing in my Psychiatric patients.
I completed a two year Fellowship for Anti-Aging and Functional Medicine in 2007. In 2008, I obtained my Board Certification in this field. Anti-Aging Medicine is a relatively new field that is concerned with expanding a person's healthy life span, i.e. not just how long but how well you live. Functional Medicine is concerned with looking at the factors that impact your general health. These include "givens" that can not change like your genetics and environmental toxins from your past. Funtional medicine tries to impact these given factors with various interventions including hormone replacement therapy, diet, and nutritional supplements. Both of these branches of medicine look at stress reduction, exercise and maintaining healthy eating habits.
Another important aspect of health optimization is looking at Mindbody issues, i.e. Psychosomatic Medicine as described by Doctor John Sarno. With all of these approaches I am particularly well suited to help because of my diverse training in various forms of psychotherapy, including Psychodrama, Redicision Therapy (TA/Gestalt), Psychodynamic and Transpersonal. I am also a certified teacher of the Enneagram, having recieved training from Helen Palmer, Don Riso and Russ Hudson.
I am trained as a General Adult Psychiatrist and completed a Fellowship in Substance Abuse Treatment. I worked a few years as the Assistant Unit Chief of the Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Center at the Palo Alto VA Medical Center. I obtained my Board Certification in Psychiatry opened my private practice of Psychiatry in Los Gatos, California in 1988. From the beginning I have helped my patients seek optimal health, co-treating with their general doctor. In the past decade I have been called upon more often to make suggestions for more complete diagnostic work ups and general health care for my patients. It became obvious to me in the last several years that I needed to address issues of thyroid disease, adrenal dysfunction and bioidentical hormone replacement therapy to help optimize outcomes for healing in my Psychiatric patients.
I completed a two year Fellowship for Anti-Aging and Functional Medicine in 2007. In 2008, I obtained my Board Certification in this field. Anti-Aging Medicine is a relatively new field that is concerned with expanding a person's healthy life span, i.e. not just how long but how well you live. Functional Medicine is concerned with looking at the factors that impact your general health. These include "givens" that can not change like your genetics and environmental toxins from your past. Funtional medicine tries to impact these given factors with various interventions including hormone replacement therapy, diet, and nutritional supplements. Both of these branches of medicine look at stress reduction, exercise and maintaining healthy eating habits.
Another important aspect of health optimization is looking at Mindbody issues, i.e. Psychosomatic Medicine as described by Doctor John Sarno. With all of these approaches I am particularly well suited to help because of my diverse training in various forms of psychotherapy, including Psychodrama, Redicision Therapy (TA/Gestalt), Psychodynamic and Transpersonal. I am also a certified teacher of the Enneagram, having recieved training from Helen Palmer, Don Riso and Russ Hudson.
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