Her residency in psychiatric oncology deepened that interest while raising new questions. “What else is there that can help suffering? What am I missing?” Holes-Lewis asked. “What are the pieces that no one’s looking at?”
Over time, she expanded her expertise to include board certifications in nutritional and environmental psychiatry, as well as mindfulness-based stress reduction. Drawing on multiple disciplines, she evaluates how diet, environmental exposures, and emotional well-being affect overall health.
“Whole-person healing is so important,” said Holes-Lewis. “I hope to find the tools that can help people heal not only emotionally, physically, spiritually, but in all the ways.”
Deeper Healing echoes her medical philosophy, using a holistic approach to treat complex conditions, both diagnosed and undiagnosed.
“Most of the people that come to Deeper Healing are people who are really sick with known illnesses —autoimmune diseases, neurologic conditions or cancer. And then we take a comprehensive approach of looking at them holistically,” Holes-Lewis explains.
However, many patients arrive after years of chronic illness and have yet to find answers, diagnoses or a doctor who will take their suffering seriously.
The clinic’s comprehensive screening process includes lab testing to evaluate immune function, inflammation, hormones, cardiovascular health and toxin exposure. Practitioners also conduct in-depth consultations covering diet, environment, and mental health.
Physicians then fill in the gaps and put the puzzle pieces together, performing detective work to find and treat the root cause of the disease.
Treatment may include detoxification, lifestyle changes, conventional medication or newer technologies, such as Exomind. Either way, the patient is given the time and effort required for their doctor to make a fully-informed decision.
Holes-Lewis views limited time with patients as the biggest problem affecting psychiatry today, as well as the entirety of traditional medicine.
