About the Center
Integrative Health Center of Chapel Hill welcomes you. The Center is home to independent medical and therapeutic practitioners committed to an integrative, individualized, whole-person approach to health and healing. Medical doctors offer expertise in adult primary care; chronic adult disease management; headache specialty care; women’s health; nutrition; acupuncture and Chinese herbal therapy; kidney and hypertension care, and ayurveda. A doctor and graduate of the Andrew Weil Integrative Medicine Fellowship offers specialty integrative evaluations and consultations for adults and children. A highly-experienced naturopathic doctor and compounding pharmacists are also available to see clients at the Center.
Mind/body therapists offer a wide-range of healing modalities such as deep tissue massage, craniosacral therapy, coaching, physical therapy, meditation, and more.
Experienced counselors offer individual and family psychotherapy; integrative mind/body therapy (combining counseling and body work); clinical hypnosis, and relationship counseling.
The Center is also committed to providing opportunities to learn self-care skills through classes in its beautiful studio. Individual and group classes in T’ai-Chi, Qigong, Yoga, and Restorative Yoga are ongoing.
What Is Integrative Medicine? Integrative medicine is an established medical discipline that focuses on combining the best of Western scientific medicine with complementary and alternative therapies such as acupuncture, herbalism, nutrition, and mind-body strategies. It brings a broad approach to the understanding and scope of medical care by incorporating, when appropriate, complementary therapies that can optimize healing results, foster preventative health, and improve one’s efforts at health maintenance. To accomplish this, a doctor has to have a dynamic understanding of the nature of illness, healing, and well-being. Integrative medicine is committed to a partnership relationship between practitioner and patient, empowering people to be active participants in their own care. Integrative medicine focuses on treating the whole person–body, mind and spirit.
What is Complementary Therapy?
Complementary therapy is an umbrella term for a number of disciplines which are used in tandem with standard medical practice. Collectively, these therapies include acupuncture, massage, ayurveda, clinical hypnosis, mind-body therapies, stress reduction techniques, and energy-based therapies, among others.
The public’s interest and use of complementary therapies has been on the rise for years. Along with increased use, there has been increased interest in their effectiveness by the public, by researchers and medical practitioners. More and more doctors are studying complementary therapies, referring patients out to skilled practitioners for these therapies, or learning techniques themselves and incorporating them into their medical practice. They are also paying attention to the connections between one’s mind and one’s body, something that many healing therapists have been focused on for many years.
In summary, the Integrative Health Center brings integrative doctors and healing therapists together under one roof. Here at the Center, one finds practitioners who are open-minded and knowledgeable about different healing disciplines; professionals who are interested in learning from each other; and providers who work individually or collaboratively to meet patients’ medical and healthcare needs. The Center provides a relaxing, inspiring environment in which patients can feel fully cared for and supported for both routine and more complicated concerns.
By attending to the whole person and respecting the interconnectedness of one’s body and mind, our doctors, practitioners, and class instructors believe they can help you achieve significant improvement in your overall health and well-being.
The practitioners at the Center adhere to the principles of integrative health care:
- Customized integration of medical, nutritional, and therapeutic resources to meet your health care needs
- Individualized partnership between you and your health care providers
- Collaborative, innovative team approach to patient care when needed
- Attention to healing your whole self: physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually
- Balanced use of conventional, complementary and alternative therapies
- Recommendations for gentler, non-invasive procedures and techniques
- Guidance with lifestyle choices to maximize health, healing, and longevity
- Mindful, heart-centered presence and support for all levels of your being
At Integrative Health Center you can:
- Consult with one of several medical doctors with expertise in Integrative Medicine for adults and children
- Receive general adult medical care from a family doctor committed to an integrated approach to your health care needs
- Consult and review your medications with a compounding pharmacist
- Come in for routine medical laboratory tests
- Consult with a nutrition specialist to maximize your health, manage a chronic illness, prepare for surgery, complement medical treatments for cancer, etc.
- Receive acupuncture treatments or for a wide range of conditions
- Consult with an experienced Traditional Chinese Medicine doctor to consult on Chinese herbal therapies
- Schedule two or more providers to meet with you at the same time, such as a physician and an acupuncturist
- Choose from a variety of body therapies to help you heal and stay healthy
- Meet with an experienced CranioSacral therapist for headache and other clinical conditions
- Explore treatments that might result in decreased need for some medications
- Get answers to your questions about alternative treatments
