Integrative and Functional psychiatry (or precision psychiatry) provides an enhanced way to treat psychiatric conditions and care for the whole-person, not just their symptoms, in addition to offering evidence-based for the symptoms of mental illness. There are far more factors that influence mental health than just neurotransmitters like dopamine and serotonin. Medication alone does not always resolve the root cause or underlying triggers.

This approach is more of an individualized, patient-centered focus in creating treatment plans addressing both allopathic and holistic methods of balancing the body’s biology and systems by treating the underlying causes of illness and disease. Integrative and Functional psychiatry is whole-body approach to treating psychiatric conditions like depression, anxiety, or ADHD. This approach identifies the root causes of mental illness in order to treat and restore health of the body and brain.The root causes of mental illness are unique to each patient, and may be genetic, biochemical, nutritional, hormonal, metabolic, dietary, lifestyle-related or environmental. Integrative and functional medicine treats the underlying imbalances that are causing the symptoms in the first place. By resolving these imbalances, patients have a greater change at lasting recovery and overall wellness. The goal is to identify the root causes, along with the underlying chemistry affecting brain and behavior, to promote healing and recovery. Through precision medicine testing and treatment of deficiencies, imbalances, infections, inflammation, and toxins, functional medicine can help patients achieve healing beyond what traditional treatment can provide.

AnneLaura will be offering these sessions in 2026 after she completes the Johns Hopkins University Psychiatry post-graduate training, board certification, and state licensure.