Dr. Catherine Stayer is a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist specializing in mental health and well-being for children, teens, adults, couples and families. She offers an integrative approach to psychiatry which includes psychopharmacology and psychotherapy as well as complementary modalities (i.e., nutritional support, botanicals, nutraceuticals).

 
What is Integrative Psychiatry?

                                                     A healing-oriented approach to mental health, wellbeing and resilience 
     that incorporates the many aspects of an individual - body, mind, and spirit, 

     within the context of environment and lifestyle. It applies both conventional 

     and alternative therapies tailored to the specific needs of the individual. 

Principles of the Practice:

·        Build a collaborative partnership that underscores our innate capacity to heal 

·        Treat not merely symptoms but rather prevent illness and optimize well-being 

·       Create a plan that incorporates mind, body, spirit, environment, lifestyle, etc.

·       Apply the least invasive, most natural, optimally effective interventions possible

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Stayer trained in Adult Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry in a fellowship for clinician-researchers at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and Children’s Hospital, Washington D.C. She is a fellow at the University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine and the American Academy of Anti-Aging, Functional, and Regenerative Medicine.

While attending medical school in Munich, Germany, Dr. Stayer performed research in sleep physiology at the Max-Planck Institute for Psychiatry. She trained in Neurology and received a doctoral degree at the University of Heidelberg. Prior to medical training, she studied Traditional Chinese Medicine in Oakland, California and Wuhan, China and subsequently worked as a licensed acupuncturist (L.Ac.) in Berkeley, California. She is a graduate of UC Berkeley with double majors in Biophysics and Neurobiology. 

Dr. Stayer has research experience in Childhood-onset Schizophrenia, Tourette’s and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, sleep physiology, neurology, and pediatric psychopharmacology. She has authored numerous articles in neurology and psychiatry.  She is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in Adult as well as Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.