HOLISTIC PSYCHIATRY & MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING IN CEDAR RAPIDS, IA AND ST THOMAS, USVI
(In-person & Telemedicine Are Available)
We believe a healthy you is the greatest gift you can give yourself, your family, and the world.
Our goal is to provide cutting-edge, compassionate, and confidential mental health care that addresses the root causes of mental health disorders.
Dr. Laurie McCormick, founder, is an Integrative/Holistic Psychiatrist & Family Physician, completing functional medicine certification with the Institute of Functional Medicine and training in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy with the Integrative Psychiatry Institute and Numinus.
She has recently started a new clinic to focus on ketamine-assisted psychotherapy and functional medicine approaches to address the root causes of illness and reduce dependency on psychotropic medications to heal, not just treat symptoms.
Dr. McCormick has over 25 years of clinical experience as an MD and is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (DFAPA). She graduated from medical school in 1998, completed residency training in psychiatry and family medicine, a neuropsychology fellowship, and was a tenure track clinical research scientist/assistant professor at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine for 10 years until 2013.
Why are We Uniquely Qualified to Assist You on Your Journey to Wellness?
We aim to reduce the trial-and-error approach commonly used in Western Medicine by obtaining a more in-depth understanding of all the genetic/inherited, environmental, cultural, and transgenerational factors that impact your health and well-being. We want to help you not just survive but thrive!
A New Day for Mental Health
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Expertise and Experience
Our clinicians are all well-trained and have many years of clinical experience. They are committed to taking the time to truly understand you and the problems you are facing and collaborate with your other providers when needed. Our staff is very responsive and attentive to the needs of our patients/clients at every step of the journey.
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Cutting-Edge Treatments
We are committed to providing revolutionary mental health care approaches and treatments to help you become a better version of yourself and live more optimally.
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Holistic Health Approach
Our holistic approach takes into account all the factors that impact your health (genetic, environmental, early childhood trauma, and social/cultural aspects that impact spiritual, mind, body, and lifestyle) to discover the root causes of your symptoms to not only treat but heal and correct underlying causes of illness.
Using an integrative or whole brain-body approach to restoring wellness, we provide a personalized approach to addressing root causes of symptoms from hereditary/genetic and transgenerational spiritual predispositions, phase of life epigenetic and hormonal contributions, environmental food sensitivities and allergens and bioenergetic factors that underlie root cause origins of symptoms and disease states.
Our goal is to help patients get to the root cause of illness, which is often spiritual (early attachment, transgenerational, interrelational) trauma, to reduce or eliminate dependency on pharmaceuticals and heal, not just manage trauma or debilitating mental states.
Integrative Psychiatry Approach
Our psychiatry providers are trained to provide holistic care that addresses the root causes of mental and physical illness, taking into account genetic predisposition, early childhood trauma, lifestyle, and interpersonal connections. We provide treatment options that include traditional and complementary medicine approaches.
Functional Medicine Lab and Genetic testing
In addition to traditional lab testing, we offer a variety of GI tests to determine gluten sensitivity, SIBO or leaky gut conditions, autoimmune, Lyme disease, hormones, vitamins, and methylation to determine genetic age as well as extensive heritability assessments with Self Decode and Genesight testing.
Weight Loss & Lifestyle Improvement
Our therapists are experts in trauma-informed care and offer EMDR as well as traditional supportive and cognitive-behavioral therapy to help change thoughts and behavior to reduce reactivity and remain grounded during life’s ups and downs. Our therapists are learning to assist with ketamine-assisted psychotherapy and will be offering that treatment soon.
Herbal & Plant Medicine Supplements
In conjunction with traditional medicine, we also prescribe nutraceutical supplements from a functional medicine perspective when needed. We will discuss which vitamins and minerals may be needed when taking certain medications, anti-inflammatory approaches to autoimmune disorders, hormonal options in middle age, and alternative approaches to augment or replace traditional psychotropics.
We offer conventional and integrative psychiatric and psychotherapy services as well as a variety of Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) options to more people suffering from a variety of conditions, including anxiety, depression, PTSD or trauma, OCD, and eating disorders.
From Success Stories To In-Depth Explorations
We truly understand the transformative spiritual healing potential of psychedelic medicine, specifically with ketamine + Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) to alleviate trauma responses as well as mental illness.
We are now offering in-person intramuscular ketamine treatments with KAP for individual or group treatments. Please call for more information.
42 7th Avenue SW, Suite 100,
9151 Estate Thomas, Foothills Bldg #106,