This article examines how the childhood belief that love must be earned can lead to lifelong patterns of people-pleasing, perfectionism, and emotional emptiness. Through patient examples and Empower Energy Technique, it offers a holistic approach to releasing conditional-love beliefs and reconnecting with unconditional love, self-acceptance, and inner strength.

Explore an honest and thoughtful conversation about conventional and holistic treatment failures in psychiatry. Discover how failed approaches, medication challenges, withdrawal struggles, and treatment resistance can become powerful opportunities for deeper understanding, persistence, and true healing.

Coming off psychiatric medications is only one part of the healing journey. This article looks at what comes next — rebuilding identity, confidence, relationships, habits, and purpose after years of treatment, while learning to move forward with patience, self-compassion, and a renewed sense of freedom.

The focus on blocking neurotransmitter receptors has been the mainstay of psychiatric treatment. While it has led to suppression of symptoms, it has also suppressed the exploration and treatment of the underlying causes of mental health symptoms. Over the years, as I integrated both functional and energy medicine approaches, it has become clear that mental illness is hardly just mental.

Explore an insightful conversation with Dr. Elisa Medhus on energy medicine, scalar healing, and the power of thought. Discover how intention, visualization, emotions, and self-perception may influence the body’s healing process — offering a broader view of wellness that goes beyond the physical body alone.

This article examines the often-overlooked long-term effects of SSRI use and why some people experience protracted withdrawal after stopping antidepressants. It shares clinical insights into how nutrition, detoxification, functional medicine, and holistic support may help patients recover from persistent withdrawal symptoms.

Explore Amanda’s inspiring journey of coming off three psychiatric medications with surprising ease after decades of treatment. Discover how holistic support, self-responsibility, emotional healing, trust, boundaries, and root-cause understanding helped create a smoother path toward recovery, freedom, and renewed hope.

When patients have been on a carousel of medications for decades without finding relief, there may be a deficiency in a hidden (less well-known) neurotransmitter system that could be undermining mental health. Why would this neurotransmitter system be overlooked? How can we support patients holistically to restore and improve this neurotransmitter system, rather than treat it with another drug? Explore answers to these questions in this article.

For the past two decades, I have been interweaving functional, energy, and allopathic medicine into a cohesive healing approach. This article explains how I integrated energy medicine into my holistic psychiatric approach to help my patients come off their medications. The Energy Field, a published magazine from the Association of Comprehensive Energy Psychology, invited me to summarize my work in a nutshell.

SSRIs are best known for their effects on neurotransmitters, but their influence extends deeper into the body. This article explains how these medications—and especially the withdrawal process—can disrupt key hormonal systems that regulate stress, sleep, and overall well-being. Understanding this hidden connection can make SSRI withdrawal safer and more manageable for both patients and clinicians.

On August 19, 2025, my office moved near downtown Stamford, Connecticut. My new location is in a beautiful, cherry tree-lined residential neighborhood, a block away from Stamford Hospital, a five-minute drive from the Metro North train station, and a 20-minute drive to the HPN/White Plains airport. Read on to learn more about how I used energy techniques to support the positive social changes I wanted.

Energy healing techniques can work remarkably well, but then “stop working” after a few days. In this article, I share a new, 20-second method to reactivate the benefits of an energy healing session using a simple “copy and paste” method. This method allows patients to replicate the benefits of a previous effective energy session.

Story Form, an advanced form of the Infinite Intention Technique, uses metaphor, visualization, and story to heal. In this podcast, a recorded healing session uses the metaphor of a carnival fun house to help patients process disorienting and chaotic experiences. The patient found the experience so immersive and healing that she lost track of time during the session but emerged feeling grounded and calm.

Today’s podcast uses Story Form to support and heal those who have experienced chronic and repetitive traumas, health problems, or challenges that have undermined their self-confidence in being self-sufficient. Listen to this recording of the Story Form session to help you live a self-sufficient and independent life and accomplish all that you have deeply desired. Following the actual session, the patient demonstrated increased confidence and readiness to become more independent.

In this episode of the Holistic Psychiatrist Podcast, Dr. Lee introduces a powerful energy healing technique (EET) to help release the emotional burden caused by political stress. She shares how this method helped a patient overcome deep anxieties by reconnecting with Life Energy and fostering inner peace. Listeners are guided through a transformative process to release inherited trauma, reclaim personal power, and choose healing in the face of uncertainty.

In this episode of the Holistic Psychiatrist Podcast, Dr. Lee explores the complex issue of protracted psychiatric medication withdrawal and its long-term effects on the body. She explains how factors like genetics, immune response, and improper tapering contribute to chronic symptoms. Dr. Lee also shares her holistic healing approach, including energy medicine techniques and targeted nutritional support, to help patients recover.

For years, I believed that healing the mind was the key to overcoming mental illness. But true healing, I’ve discovered, begins within the heart. Emotional healing holds the key to lasting transformation, and when we resolve emotional wounds with love and openness, real change becomes possible.