Integrative Psychiatry

Integrative Psychiatry is a sub-specialty of conventional psychiatry with the goal to increase a sense of connection to your own body, and to recognize the impact that your lifestyle decisions can make in your overall health, functioning, and well-being. It is a true understanding of how a balance of the physical, environmental, mental, emotional, social and spiritual aspects of your life is vital to your mental well-being.

Our Services

At WholeHealth Chicago our patients have access to providers who use an integrative and functional medicine model. Functional medicine is a real paradigm shift in the practice of health care. Instead of the traditional disease-centered focus of conventional medicine, functional medicine practitioners apply a patient-centered approach that addresses the whole person–not simply isolated symptoms.

Our Practitioners

We have assembled an outstanding group of practitioners here at WholeHealth Chicago, men and women all seasoned practitioners in their areas of expertise. By working with each other for years, they’re dedicated to our model of integrative health care.

David Edelberg, MD Internal Medicine
Cliff Maurer, DC Chiropractic Medicine
Caley Scott, ND Naturopathic Medicine
Parisa Samsami Chiropractic Physician
Katie McManigal Family Nurse Practitioner
Wendy A. Ploegstra, APN, FNP Nurse Practitioner
Rachel Gates, MSN, FNP Nurse Practitioner
Olivia Wagner, MS,RDN, LDN, IFNCP Clinical Nutrition
Mari Stecker, BA, LAc, Acupuncture
Sandra Subotich Acupuncture, Traditional Chinese Medicine
Sujatha Mannal, B.H.M.S Homeopathy
Katie Huff Oberlin, HTCP Healing Touch Certified Practitioner, Shamanic Healer
Jennifer Davis, LPC Licensed Professional Counselor
Christine Savas, LPC Licensed Professional Counselor
Janet Chandler, PhD, CGP Clinical Psychology

In order to maintain your continuity of care, WholeHealth Chicago now offers telemedicine appointments with most of our practitioners. During a telemedicine visit, you and your healthcare provider can review medical history, discuss symptoms, arrange for prescriptions, and more. When necessary, labs and diagnostic imaging can be ordered from a facility near your home, and our Natural Apothecary can ship supplements quickly to your door.

Please contact Patient Services for details and scheduling a telemedicine appointment, or to change a regular appointment to telemedicine by calling 773-296-6700.

We’re looking forward to meeting with you in our virtual consultation room soon.

Far and away, the commonest phone call/e mail I receive asks about COVID-19 diagnosis.
Just print this out, tape it on your refrigerator door, and stay calm.

ALLERGIES
• Runny nose
• Sneezing
• Red, swollen eyes
• Itchy eyes and nose
• Tickly throat
• No fever

COLD
• Runny nose
• Sneezing
• Sore throat
• Mild muscle aches
• Mild dry cough
• Rarely a low fever

STREP THROAT
• Painful sore throat
• Hurts to swallow
• Swollen glands in neck
• Fever

FLU (Standard seasonal flu)
• Fever
• Dry cough (no mucus)
• Sudden onset over few hours
• Headache
• Sore throat
• Fatigue, sometimes quite severe
• Muscle aches, sometimes quite severe
• Rarely, diarrhea

CORONAVIRUS-COVID 19
• Shortness of breath
• Fever (usually above 100 degrees)
• Dry cough (no mucus)
• Slow onset (2-14 days)
• Mild muscle aches
• Mild fatigue
• Mild sneezing

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