Personalized & Complete Care
For Your Body, Your Mind, and Your Spirit
While not often acknowledged — let alone addressed — our thoughts and feelings can have a large impact on how we feel physically. Similarly, when we experience physical discomfort for a prolonged period of time our emotions and behaviors can become severly affected.
Thoughts, feelings, behaviors, emotions, and stress-related physical symptoms directly and mutually affect a variety of conditions and diseases.
Treating mental health problems in a medical setting can be crucial, as many who seek help in such a setting have milder symptoms. Any issues, if treated appropriately and quickly, can be prevented from developing into a more disabling disorder.
Unfortunately, all too often mental health problems go undetected and untreated by physicians. Even when physicians do detect mental health issues in their patients, they often fail to provide them with adequate treatment.
Likewise, most mental health professionals are not qualified to prescribe or manage patient medications when they become a necessary part of the treatment plan. And many mental health professionals are unaware of the specific psychological symptoms that manifest when one suffers from any of the numerous physical health issues we face today.
The integration of counseling and health care seems natural. Mental and medical conditions can be highly interconnected and our mental health is no more a luxury than our physical health. Both are necessary components of a complete treatment process. So why are they not commonly made available in the same location?
Ease Your Pain and Overcome Distress —
Convenient, Integrated Health Care
For Men and Women
Despite the fact that more than 20 years of research shows collaborative health care is effective in decreasing primary-care patients' mental health symptoms and improving their social functioning and quality of life, integrated health care remains a distinct specialty.
Integrated health care provides mental and physical health services for the convenience of patients. Thus, in order to benefit patients, integrated care requires the expertise of professionals from different backgrounds. And these professionals not only need to work together, but to do so in harmony.
Integrated health care not only provides clinicians the expertise and resources they need to best serve their patients' needs, but makes it easier for patients to access the care they need to ease physical pain and overcome mental distress.
Why Integrated Healing Associates?
Dr. Mary Ann Miner, a highly-trained physician, and Dr. Nancy Marx, an experienced psychologist, combined their individual practices to form Integrated Healing Associates in order to provide their patients convenient access to comprehensive care and effectively treat the physical and mental pain and distress men and women experience in their lives.
Drs. Miner and Marx have a long-standing and successful working relationship. By working together, they are able to understand and attend to the physical, mental, and emotional needs of their clients.
They treat each individual within a holistic context, believing that health is more than the mere absence of illness. True health, mental and physical, is a path leading each individual to a happier today and a brighter tomorrow.
Dr. Miner and Dr. Marx offer a variety of health and mental health services to improve one's quality of life and interpersonal functioning across an individual's lifespan. Both women are highly dedicated to their professions, to establishing the most effective means of helping people, and to bringing about the positive change and healing you deserve.
Contact Integrated Healing Associates at either 650-562-1904 (Nancy Marx, Ph.D.) or 650-348-9800 (Mary Ann Miner, M.D.) for more information or to schedule an appointment.
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Integrated Healing Associates
520 S. El Camino Real, Suite 204, San Mateo, CA 94402
(Serving San Mateo, Burlingame, Hillsborough, Foster City, Belmont, San Carlos, Daly City, South San Francisco, Millbrae, Half Moon Bay, Pacifica, and the San Francisco Bay Area) |
