Mental Health Treatment
Meet Your Anxiety Treatment Practitioner
Tracy Shulsinger, FNP-C
Get the Anxiety Treatment You Need through a Functional Medicine Approach at The Healing Collective
With the number of people suffering from an anxiety disorder at an all-time high, the current treatment options focusing on pharmaceuticals like SSRIs and Benzodiazepines do not address the underlying root causes. Many clients are tired of dealing with drug side effects and are looking for a drug-free way to treat anxiety that provides long-lasting results. At The Healing Collective, we take a functional medicine approach to anxiety disorder and other psychiatric conditions. Rather than masking symptoms with drugs, we use new and emerging treatments for anxiety, addressing brain inflammation, the gut microbiome, and more to facilitate healing, so you can live a life free from anxiety.
What Is Anxiety?
Anxiety is actually a natural response to a stressful situation characterized by a sense of dread, fear, or uneasiness. However, it should not be a constant or persistent state of being. Anxiety disorder has five different types: generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), panic disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and social anxiety disorder.
Our providers' research into the root causes of anxiety at The Healing Collective has found that many anxiety conditions are inflammatory in nature. While nutrient deficiencies play a role, the brains of people suffering from anxiety and other mental health challenges often show elevated levels of inflammatory cytokines. As a result, addressing the inflammation, specifically gut inflammation that leads to brain inflammation, may be a key to healing and recovering from an anxiety disorder.
At The Healing Collective, our Functional Medicine and Physical Therapy practitioners will design a customized plan of care to address your gut microbiome, including identifying food irritants and bacterial pathogens and improving your microbial flora. We also utilize Frequency Specific Microcurrent and Pulsed Electromagnetic Field Therapy to directly reduce inflammation in the brain and body. Achieving healing from anxiety disorder and symptom relief without drugs is possible!
Signs Indicating You Need Anxiety Treatment
Anxiety disorder is a very individual condition that affects each person differently. This is precisely why the personalized functional medicine approach is so effective for anxiety. It's also the reason anxiety disorder symptoms vary from person to person.
Here are some of the signs and symptoms indicating you may benefit from holistic anxiety treatment:
- Feeling restless or nervous
- Difficulty controlling feelings of fear and worry
- Sense of impending doom
- Difficulty concentrating
- Digestion problems
- Increased heart rate
- Heart palpitations
- Rapid breathing
- Trembling
- Chest pain
- Insomnia
While medications may treat or temporarily relieve some of these symptoms of anxiety, making lifestyle changes and addressing nutrition, hormones, and gut health can solve the problem of brain inflammation and provide true relief–without the drug side effects. At The Healing Collective, we believe the secret to reducing gastrointestinal inflammation that leads to anxiety is identifying your unique food irritants and bacterial pathogens so we can begin to help you improve microbial flora.
