Whole-person care without forcing you into one treatment box.
Our disciplines are different, but our starting point is similar: understand the whole person, take complexity seriously, and make treatment decisions collaboratively.
What is neuropsychotherapy?
Neuropsychotherapy is therapy informed by how the brain and nervous system actually work. We consider how your brain and body function together, as well as your relationships, personality, emotions, wants, and needs, and tailor treatment to you.
This can be especially helpful when symptoms are complex, overlapping, or haven’t responded well to standard approaches.
That doesn’t mean every session becomes a lesson in brain biology. It means we can draw on what we know about memory, learning, attention, emotion, body states, relationships, and development when deciding what may help.
No two patients are alike.
Our approach is to organize care around all parts of the human experience, including body and sensory experience, thoughts and emotions, relationships and development, and questions of meaning. This gives us room to draw from different therapeutic approaches depending on what you need and where you are in the process.
Mental health and physical health affect one another.
Deborah approaches psychiatric care as part of whole-person health. Diagnosis can be useful, but it is also a working model that may evolve as more becomes clear. Medication can be very helpful, but it should serve the patient rather than become the entire treatment plan.
When possible, she prefers the minimum effective medication burden and is comfortable simplifying or deprescribing. When a complicated situation genuinely calls for a more complex medication regimen, she is comfortable with that as well. Side effects, day-to-day functioning, and quality of life remain part of the decision.
Medication is ultimately the patient’s choice. Deborah will not insist that you take a medication, and she will not prescribe something simply because it is requested. Decisions are made by considering symptoms, risks, benefits, alternatives, and your goals.
You can work with one or both of us.
Some patients want psychotherapy and psychiatric medication care in the same practice. Others want only one service. Both are welcome.
When you see both of us and want your care coordinated, Jeremy and Deborah can collaborate with your permission. We also consult with or refer to outside clinicians when another specialty is needed.
This can be especially useful when psychological symptoms, medications, medical conditions, family relationships, and day-to-day circumstances interact in ways that are difficult to separate.