What is Interventional Psychiatry?
Cutting-edge
pathways to
relief of
Mental &
Emotional
Challenges.
Interventional Psychiatry: Medical Procedures & Technologies intended to promote Rapid changes
in Brain
Function
Employing Modern Technologies & Procedures to Enhance Mental, Emotional, and Cognitive Health.
We collaborate closely with you, your current providers, and align with your existing treatment plans, using advanced procedures to support more rapid symptom remission by addressing impaired brain systems, to achieve relief faster!
Interventional psychiatry is an emerging field within mental health care that focuses on advanced, technology-driven therapies to treat conditions that may not respond to traditional treatments or may respond to supplementation with advanced procedures. By integrating innovative techniques with established practices, interventional psychiatry offers hope to individuals facing severe or treatment-resistant mental health challenges.
While psychotherapy, medication, and lifestyle interventions are effective for many, a significant number of individuals experience little to no relief from conventional treatments. Conditions such as severe depression, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), chronic stress, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) often prove resistant to first-line approaches.
Interventional psychiatry aims to fill the gap in modern psychiatric care, by providing new pathways to relief for those who have exhausted traditional options or prefer to avoid long-term reliances on conventional treatment options.
As our understanding of the brain deepens and technology continues to advance, interventional psychiatry is poised to revolutionize mental health care.
Interventional psychiatry offers innovative procedures are aimed at targeting brain function more directly and with improved precision than by conventional approaches . Two notable examples are stellate ganglion block (SGB) and transcranial electrical therapies.
By addressing the frustrations of delayed responses and limited efficacy in conventional psychiatric treatments, interventional psychiatry paves the way for faster, more durable, and more personalized mental health care. Procedures like SGB and transcranial electrical therapies demonstrate the potential to improve brain function and transform lives, offering a powerful complement—or alternative—to traditional approaches.
Psychiatry of the Future, Today.
A minimally invasive procedure that involves injecting a local anesthetic, under imaging guidance, near a bundle of nerves in the neck called the stellate ganglion, which influences the sympathetic nervous system. This treatment can rapidly reset the overactive "fight or flight" response often seen in conditions like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and anxiety disorders.
IV therapies deliver essential nutrients, antioxidants, and compounds directly into the bloodstream, to ensure rapid and maximum absorption, supporting energy production and cellular repair, reducing oxidative stress and inflammation, protecting brain cells from damage, enhancing detoxification, and rapidly correcting deficiencies in vitamins and minerals are linked to mood disorders and cognitive dysfunction.
Ketamine Therapy
Our Scottsdale Ketamine Clinic is distinguished by offering full-spectrum ketamine therapy (administration of ketamine via a range of potential routes, including sublingual, nasal, intramuscular, and intravenous). Our ketamine therapy is closely supervised by experienced and board-certified, psychiatric providers.
Functional
Neurorehabilitation
An approach to brain optimization by addressing imbalances or dysfunctions with the use of targeted exercises, sensory stimulation, eye movement training, balance rehabilitation, neuromodulation technologies, and lifestyle modifications to promote neuroplasticity—the brain's ability to adapt and rewire.
Medication
Management
Interventional Psychiatry does not mean "entirely avoiding medication". In some cases, carefully selected and professionally managed prescriptions can make a dramatic difference in someone's life. Our evidence-based approach works by combining procedures with prescriptions to produce the most effective combination for you.
Vagal Nerve Stimulation
Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) has demonstrated benefit for treatment-resistant depression, with growing evidence supporting its use for other mental health conditions. Studies show that VNS can enhance mood regulation by modulating brain regions involved in emotional processing, VNS is typically used as an adjunct to conventional treatments.