The Holistic Psychiatrist
The Holistic Psychiatrist podcast is the place for insights, information, and inspiration on holistic mental health. Discover critical information on safe, effective psychiatric medication withdrawal. Learn to apply easy energy medicine techniques that can help heal effortlessly from traumas, toxins, and infections. Understand which nutritional supplements and detoxification products are useful and why. Explore new ideas that enlighten and expand the mind from cutting-edge authors and experts. Hear from former patients as they share their miraculous healing journeys. Holistic and integrative medicine doesn’t need to remain a mystery.
Your host, Alice W. Lee, MD, combines 10 years of medical training, 37 years in child, adolescent, and adult psychiatry, and 24 years in holistic and integrative psychiatry to distill and simplify the nutritional, orthomolecular, functional, and energy medicine information you need to help you build your well-being from the thought up.
The content provided by this podcast is for informational purposes only and has not been approved by the U.S. FDA. This podcast is not intended to provide personal medical advice, which should be obtained from a medical professional.
Episodes
114 episodes
Can Thoughts Make Us Sick—or Help Us Heal?
There’s a moment in this conversation where something quietly shifts…Not because of a bold claim — but because of a different way of seeing.In this episode, I’m joined by Dr Elisa Medhus, a physician with over 30 years in internal...
Discovering the Long-term Effects of SSRI Use
What are the long-term effects of SSRIs—and why do some people experience protracted withdrawal long after stopping antidepressants?In this episode, Dr. Alice W. Lee sits down with Emily to explore the science and lived experience behind...
Exploring Amanda’s Easy Withdrawal from Three Psychiatric Medications
What if coming off psychiatric medication didn’t have to be terrifying?In this episode of The Holistic Psychiatrist Podcast, Alice W. Lee, MD, speaks with Amanda, who shares her experience of withdrawing from three psychiatric ...
Getting Out of the Carnival Fun House Using (I∞T)® Advanced Level: Story Form
Today, I share another interesting Story Form, using the metaphor of a carnival fun house, to help people heal from difficult, disorienting, and destabilizing experiences. Many of us have suffered in the past from experiences that...
Gaining Confidence in Self-Sufficiency: Using (I∞T)® Advanced Level: Story Form
One of my patients’ favorite Infinite Intention Techniques is an advanced approach called “Story Form.” It is even more powerful than EET!However, for a clinician, it takes a lot of skill, creativity, intuition, and insight to use this ...
Calm in the Chaos: Overcoming Political Anxiety Using EET to Empower Yourself
Calm in the Chaos: Overcoming Political Anxiety Using EET to Empower YourselfMany individuals feel overwhelmed, anxious, and powerless in response to the current political climate. But what if those emotions can be resolved—not just ment...
Beyond the Taper: Understanding Protracted Psychiatric Medication Withdrawal & Paths to Healing
🎙 Beyond the Taper: Understanding Protracted Psychiatric Medication Withdrawal & Paths to Healing | Holistic Psychiatrist PodcastWelcome to The Holistic Psychiatrist Podcast with Dr. Alice Lee, holistic psychi...
How Spirituality and Religiosity Affect Mental Health
Holistic practitioners believe in healing the mind, body, and soul. However, it's rare to find clear examples of an association between spirituality, religiosity, and physical well-being. Tina's (pseudonym) healing journey clearly illustrates t...
Breaking Stereotypes and Embracing Vulnerability
What is mindful masculinity? Scott Grace's new book, Mindful Masculinity, made me wonder. Does masculinity or femininity exist, or are they artificial social constructs?Through songs, Dr. Seuss-like poetry, and profound and pra...
How to Beat Physician and Professional Burnout with Tomi Mitchell, MD
Dr. Tomi Mitchell's new book: The Soul-Sucking, Energy-Draining Life of a Physician: How to Live a Life of Service Without Losing Yourself, discusses the soul-sucking side of medicine—aspects of work that cause burn-out among so many p...
Unfinished Business: Emily Continues Her Healing Journey
After a year, Emily reached out to me to further discover any remainingdeep-seated, underlying issues that impeded her ability to continue herpath towards fulfillment and well-being. What brought her back to further her healing?...
Beyond the Carousel of Medications and Mainstream Narratives
Beyond the Carousel of Medications and Mainstream Narratives isn't just about one person's healing journey, it's about a new integrative approach to treating "mental illness" beyond the standard of care that uses psychopharmacological ...
How to Achieve Abundant Finances and Fulfilling Relationships
How to Achieve Abundant Finances and Fulfilling RelationshipsCreating abundance may be easier than you think when we use energy healing techniques to help us bring abundance into our lives. This recording was created for my patie...
Why Are Supplements Causing Negative Reactions?
In this EET Healing Series, I share an EET template to help with hypersensitivity reactions to nutrients such as vitamins and minerals. I also include other innate, natural molecules that sometimes end up with hypersensitivity reactions. <...
Creating Post-Traumatic Growth
Have you ever been triggered by an experience or even a bit of stimuli associated with some past trauma(s) such that your past traumatic suffering adds to your suffering in the present? Who hasn’t, right?Everyone’s mind is made to assoc...
Episode 4 of The Empower Energy Technique (EET) Healing Series: Stop Whipping Yourself to Get Tasks Done
Today's recording walks you through the Empower Energy Technique (EET) to help you address the habit of bossing yourself around to get tasks done. It was an EET template used during one of my sessions with a patient that I think many people wou...
The Soul-Sucking, Energy-Draining Life of a Physician: How to Live a Life of Service Without Losing Yourself. Interview with Tomi Mitchell, MD
Hello and welcome to the Holistic Psychiatrist Podcast!Our podcast today is about Tomi Mitchell, MD's upcoming book: The Soul-Sucking, Energy-Draining Life of a Physician: How to Live a Life of Service Without Losing Yourself.
Periodicity: A Universal Energetic Aspect of Health
Today's podcast provides a meditation directed toward healing problems with dysfunctional biorhythms and periodicity.What is periodicity? It means the quality, state, or fact of being regularly recurrent or having periods. It is an inna...
Episode 3 of The Empower Energy Technique (EET) Healing Series: Healing from Dependency on Psychiatric Medications
Episode 3 of The Empower Energy Technique (EET) Healing Series: Healing from Dependency on Psychiatric MedicationsI am excited to start The Empower Energy Technique (EET) Healing Series which share the EETs that I've done over the years...
Episode 2 of The Empower Energy Technique (EET) Healing Series: Healing from Emotionally Immature Parents
Episode 2 of The Empower Energy Technique (EET) Healing Series: Healing from Emotionally Immature ParentsI am excited to start The Empower Energy Technique (EET) Healing Series which share the EETs that I've done over the years...
Episode 1: Introduction to The Empower Energy Technique (EET) Healing Series: Healing from Negative Self-Judgment and Back Pain
Introduction to The Empower Energy Technique (EET) Healing Series: Healing from Negative Self-Judgment and Back PainI am excited to start The Empower Energy Technique (EET) Healing Series which share the EETs that I've done over the yea...
Not Just Why, But How: Practical Advice on Creating an Ideal Diet - Conversation with Dr. Cori Stern
For too long mental illness has been confined to brain health and neurotransmitter management. Today's conversation shifts the focus on the important impact of nutrition on mental health. Dr. Cori Stern shares her personal healing journey. In a...
What is Trauma Resolution Therapy? Interview with Michael Gurevich, MD
Michael Gurevich, MD, a holistic psychiatrist with decades of holistic experience practicing in Glen Cove, New York, shares his unique and valuable expertise on Trauma Resolution Therapy, an effective method for helping people resolve traumas r...
Strengthen Detoxification Through Energy Medicine for Glutathione and Metallothionein
Through my energy medicine training, I have learned to use energy testing techniques to assess patients' function. From my testing results, I have come to believe that many of my patients have difficulty with detoxification beyond the typical i...
Enhancing the Endocannabinoid System from the Thought Up
Building well-being from the thought up may be a novel idea, but as a holistic clinician, I've found the approach very versatile and helpful--not just in terms of psychotherapeutic benefits but as a way to support the physical healing process.<...