Naturopathic Services Include

A deep look at your health, and real strategies for feeling better.

A comprehensive approach
authentically holistic
Giving you the tools
providing accessibility
Helping you

There’s a saying that Naturopathic Doctors don’t treat diseases,

we treat people.

A disease is generally comprised of a constellation of signs and symptoms, messages that one’s system is out of balance. For most people, symptoms are troubling and uncomfortable, and we generally want them to resolve as quickly as possible.  However, I want to do more than address your symptoms.  I want to help you get to the root of your health concerns, so that you can thrive.

Conditions Treated

Over-focusing on symptoms and diagnoses can be lead us astray, because our real aim is to restore health and vitality.  Nonetheless, here is a list of common conditions or symptoms that motivate people to seek naturopathic support.  This is not an exhaustive list of ‘conditions treated,’ but includes many of the conditions that I commonly see and/or have expertise addressing.

  • Digestive Health, including IBS, SIBO, Crohn’s, Colitis, reflux, abdominal pain, and gut flora imbalances (dysbiosis, parasites, candida overgrowth)
  • Autoimmunity or other types of immune dysfunction, including allergies, histamine intolerance and MCAS
  • Food and environmental sensitivities
  • Mold toxicity and other environmentally acquired illnesses
  • Cardiovascular Disease, including high cholesterol, high or low blood pressure, arrhythmia
  • Diabetes
  • Headaches, migraines, and other types of chronic pain
  • Chronic fatigue & fibromyalgia
  • Dementia, cognitive issues, brain fog or other mental fatigue
  • Anxiety, depression or other mood disturbances, limbic dysfunction
  • Insomnia or other sleep issues
  • Hormone Balance, including thyroid and adrenal health, menstrual and menopausal issues
  • Reproductive balance, including fertility and preconception planning
  • Skin Health including acne, eczema, psoriasis
  • Urinary and Prostate Health, including acute or chronic urinary tract infections, overactive bladder, interstitial cystitis, prostatitis, & BPH
  • Genetic SNP issues, including MTHFR
  • Healthy childhood development, ADD/ADHD or other developmental Issues
  • Health optimization and preventative medicine

Treatment Modalities

Nutrition

  • Providing nutritional recommendations based on each individual’s unique health picture and constitution
  • Offering tips to make healthy eating both tasty and convenient

Lifestyle Interventions

  • Providing practical and non-costly tools for self-care
  • Recommending healthy habits conducive to good digestion, proper metabolism, restful sleep, healthy immune function, enhanced energy, and improved stress tolerance
  • Providing harm-reduction strategies when lifestyle changes aren’t feasible

Botanical Medicine

  • Using plant medicines to enhance physiological functions and augment nutritional intake
  • Emphasizing  local, organic, and sustainably harvested plant medicines
  • Prescribing based on empirical/traditional knowledge and scientific validation and using both western and Ayurvedic approaches
  • Using well-versed and up to date information to avoid potential medication interactions or other contraindications

Nutraceuticals

  • Judiciously recommended when stronger interventions are needed to restore balance
  • Prescribing based on best available scientific evidence and empirical knowledge
  • Providing professional brand supplements from supplement companies with high quality and safety standards and demonstrable environmental consciousness

Mind-body Medicine

Link to: Focusing in Naturopathic Medicine

Experiential Focusing

  • A body-centered mindfulness practice where we are cultivating an inner relationship with our bodily knowing, a felt sense that can guide us to deeper awareness and healing. 
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Biofeedback and mindfulness coaching

  • Building awareness of basic physiological functions such as breath and heart rate.
  • Discovering how habitual stress responses alter physiology
  • Learning how to modify those responses in order to promote greater well-being

Hands-on Therapies

Correct structural imbalances, enhance physiological function and support somato-emotional balances

Craniosacral therapy

  • A gentle osteopathic technique focused on supporting proper mobility within the cranial bones, the spine and pelvis, and throughout the nervous system
  • Learn more about Craniosacral Therapy

Visceral Manipulation

  • A gentle osteopathic technique focused on restoring proper movement and functioning of the major organs and related fascia

Chi Nei Tsang

  • Breath and awareness oriented massage to improve organ function and promote healthy digestion of emotions
  • Incorporating Taoist and Chinese Five Elements philosophy
  • Addresses emotional holding patterns in the breath and viscera

Additional Approaches

Environmental medicine

  • Assessing and treating issues caused by environmental toxicity or reactivity
  • Supporting the body’s natural detoxification processes with safe and effective methods
  • Providing resources to help reduce problematic environmental exposures

Ayurvedic medicine

  • One of the oldest continuously practiced forms of medicine which is based on 5,000 years of observation and practice.
  • Utilizing constitutional assessment to understand an individual’s unique way of responding to their environment.
  • Providing education and tools for maintaining balance given an individual’s propensities.

Pharmaceuticals

  • Recommended judiciously when natural methods are not sufficient or practical, and the risk of harm or severity of discomfort from under-treatment exceeds the risks of the medication
  • Dr. Somine utilizes hormone therapies, such as thyroid hormone and bio-identical hormones including estrogen and progesterone.
  • Dr. Somine also maintains a supervising physician agreement, which allows her to prescribe legend drugs in the state of California.

Telemedicine Clinic

Get your healthcare needs met, wherever you are in California.

Telemedicine appointments involve a similar process as in-person appointments.  We go into depth about your health concerns and generate a plan that is resonant with you.  After the visit, you will receive a written summary of recommendations, typically within 48 hours, which may include diet and lifestyle practices, an herbal or supplement regimen, recommended laboratory testing or any other next steps to take on your way to wellness.

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To ensure that our cancellation policy of 48 hour notice is honored, we require a credit card to be placed on file upon making your appointment.

Have more questions?  Please contact the office.