At My Mind & Me, PLLC, I believe mental health care should honor the whole person—mind, body, and environment. My approach blends psychiatric medicine with functional and integrative strategies that address the root causes of emotional and behavioral concerns. I view each patient as an active partner in their healing process and focus on cultivating insight, resilience, and balance rather than symptom suppression alone.
I believe that true wellness requires connection—between biology and behavior, family and community, and clinician and patient. Whether working with a child navigating focus and learning challenges, or an adult managing life transitions, my goal is to create a collaborative and compassionate space where growth is both possible and measurable. I value education, self-awareness, and evidence-based care that empowers patients to understand themselves deeply and thrive across all stages of life.
No two children experience anxiety, depression ADHD or Autism the same way — because no two brains function identically.
That iss why every care plan is customized through a biopsychosocial-functional matrix that captures the biological, emotional, and environmental influences shaping that child’s world.
This allows us to design individualized strategies that align with the child’s neural type — focusing not only on what to treat, but how to nurture optimal functioning in their brain and body.
The foundation of My Mind & Me begins with a simple but radical premise: every child’s brain is wired differently, and those differences are not disorders to correct but languages to learn.
For too long, psychiatry has divided children into diagnostic boxes ADHD, anxiety, depression, oppositional behavior focusing on symptom control rather than comprehension. What I’ve come to believe, both as a clinician and as a mother, is that these patterns are not “problems” to be managed but neural signatures that reveal how a brain experiences, processes, and adapts to the world.
I began to see that my younger children’s behaviors their impulsivity, sensitivity, creativity, or hesitation were not signs of defiance or dysfunction. They were simply expressions of a different neural type, asking to be understood. When we frame children through the lens of neurotypes rather than pathology, our role as providers and parents changes. We stop asking, “What’s wrong with this child?” and start asking, “What is this brain communicating?”
This reframe reshapes every layer of care: evaluation, classroom expectations, parenting language, and treatment selection. It turns the provider from a fixer into a translator, guiding families to understand the world through their child’s neural lens.
From this understanding grew what I call the Theory of Positive Neurons — the belief that when we nurture brains proactively, we strengthen adaptive pathways and prevent future dysfunction.
A child’s brain is not waiting to be treated; it is waiting to be tuned.
When environments provide predictable rhythm, emotional safety, proper nutrition, and regulation strategies, we activate neurons that communicate in harmony. Those “positive neurons” multiply through safety and understanding, not through correction or control.
Early recognition of neural type allows us to provide interventions that align with biology:
Each strategy feeds neural pathways toward stability and self-efficacy, reducing the future need for pharmacologic management.
I imagine a world where classroom strategies, parenting tools, and medical interventions work in tandem to support the developing brain. When proactive neuro-support becomes the norm, we will see fewer children overwhelmed by anxiety, depression, or burnout. Instead, we will see resilient, emotionally literate young people whose neural patterns have been supported rather than suppressed.
That is the essence of My Mind & Me: to build systems that honor neurodiversity, measure growth, and cultivate positive neurons — because when we nurture the brain’s language early, we shape a lifetime of possibility.
Explore the root causes, evidence-based practices, and whole-family support strategies behind our integrative mental health care.
