You, or someone you care for, may feel labeled or boxed-in by a diagnosis or treatment. For some people medication causes more problems than it’s worth, or simply doesn’t give the help needed. In your heart, you may reject the idea that your current treatment plan is as good as it gets.
We believe in creating a treatment plan that’s developed for your individual situation. After a truly comprehensive evaluation we begin creating a plan to address the root causes of issues, not just the symptoms. Often patients find the real causes stem from areas neither they nor other physicians have yet considered.
We find these root causes reveal a need in one or more of the following areas:
1. Repair what causes problems: Exp. using neurotherapy after a head injury.
2. Remove what’s offending: Exp. taking an allergen food out of your diet.
3. Replace what’s missing: Exp. use of supplements such as B12 to affect energy levels.
Our treatment plans usually involve one or more of the following options:
Neurotherapy/Brain Mapping
As the only behavioral health clinic in Nashville to offer brain mapping and neurotherapy we make great progress and success in this area. We create a brain map with a test known as a qEEG (Quantitative Electroencephalogram) which simply involves placing 19 non-invasive electrodes on a patient’s head that are connected to a computer. In about an hour we have the data to create a three-dimensional, color-coded map of the brain showing its electrical activity. Many behavioral and emotional disorders will be demonstrated by an imbalance of brainwaves or the electrical activities of neurons. After all chemical imbalances are represented by electrical imbalances.
Armed with this data we can begin discovering and treating the real causes of our patients’ issues. Neurofeedback is one of our main treatment options, but the qEEG helps us understand nutritional and cognitive needs as well.
Nutritional Therapy/Body Chemistry
More than just a healthy diet, our nutritional therapy options seek to treat food allergies as well as surpluses and deficiencies of chemicals in the body. These may include chemicals that shouldn’t be present (such as mercury) or addressing the amount of chemicals the body produces on its own (such as casein resulting from reactions to dairy).
We may recommend removing certain offenders from a diet for a time or altogether. In addition, nutritional supplements make up an important part of our common treatments. All our supplements have been chosen because they metabolize effectively and safely, a guarantee that supermarkets and retail stores can’t give.
Learn more about Nutritional Therapy
Cognitive Therapy and Counseling
Many patients may have visited a psychiatrist in the past that didn’t make regular counseling sessions a priority. At 17th Avenue weekly hour-long visits are common; we look forward to them. It’s our chance to find out how other therapies are working and minister to the mind and the spirit. Much of how we function is based on how we perceive life and the choices we make. We’re eager to help our patients realize they have influence over the mind and spirit as well.