When a person chooses Sierra Tucson, he or she benefits from the latest advances in clinical neuroscience, as well as receiving safe and effective therapies.

Since we first opened our doors in 1984, Sierra Tucson has been a leader in the development of integrative approaches to mental healthcare. We have also led the way to integrate recent advances in clinical neuroscience with effective and compassionate therapies.

What are Integrative Therapies?

The word ‘integrative’ in integrative therapies refers to creating a whole, cohesive treatment plan, and bringing together the cognitive, behavioral, and physiological systems within an individual. Integration suggests that the therapeutic elements are part of one combined approach to theory and practice.

An integrative approach to therapy looks at the whole person, and combines mainstream therapies with alternative therapies to bring healing to all areas of one’s life. Additional Integrative Therapy packages are available for purchase.

What are the Benefits of Integrative Therapies?

In conjunction with traditional treatment methods, integrative therapies enhance a resident’s treatment and recovery experience. Integrative therapy techniques are proven to advance the process of treatment.

An individualized, integrated approach to therapy promotes wellness in all areas of life – physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual. Through integrated therapies, residents work on overcoming habitual, self-defeating behaviors and begin to take positive steps toward optimal health. Additional benefits include:

Lowering of blood pressure
Promoting restful sleep
Reduction in anxiety
Stress management and reduction

What is Integrative Psychiatry?

Sierra Tucson also embraces the integrative philosophy as it applies to our psychiatric services.

The term “integrative psychiatry” describes an evidence-guided approach that incorporates appropriate and effective conventional therapeutic modalities to the assessment and treatment of mental health problems.

Key Elements of the Integrative Psychiatry Philosophy

The resident and healthcare practitioner are partners in the healing process. All factors that influence mental health, wellness, and disease are taken into consideration, including mind, body, spirit, community, and the environment.

The development of integrative psychiatric practices should be based on a rigorous evidence-based approach. Integrative psychiatry is organized around an interdisciplinary team model that respects and recognizes the contribution of practitioners from different disciplines. Practitioners of integrative psychiatry should exemplify its principles and commit themselves to self-exploration, self-healing, and self-development.

In addition to treating mental health, integrative psychiatry recognizes the importance of supporting physiological and psychological resiliency and the enhancement of positive psychological factors.

Holistic Therapies and Services

For more details on what types of holistic therapies and services are offered at Sierra Tucson, please download our comprehensive booklet.

Integrative Therapies Booklet

Our Holistic Therapies and Services Include:

CranioSacral Therapy

CranioSacral Therapy (CST) stems from osteopathy, releasing restrictions in the cranial bones, spine, and fascia. This gentle, non-invasive approach focuses on balancing the nervous system and musculo-skeletal system.

SomatoEmotional Dialoguing Therapy

SomatoEmotional Dialogue (SED) Therapy is an advanced form of CranioSacral Therapy that uses guided imagery and creative visualization to initiate dialogue with the body and assist in the release of emotionally charged energy, including anxiety, depression, and/or the effects of trauma that are still retained deeply and stored in the memories of the body’s tissues, muscles, organs, and cells.

Acupuncture

Acupuncture is one of the treatments used in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), a complete system of healing for over 2,000 years, and includes the use of fine needles placed on specific points of energy channels (meridians) to stimulate a person’s vital energy (Qi).

Therapeutic Massage

Therapeutic massage methods can include Swedish, deep tissue, myofascial release, cupping massage, neuromuscular therapy, visceral massage, and medical massage, all of which are customized to meet the client’s needs.

Shiatsu Massage

Shiatsu is a Japanese style of bodywork that works with the energy channels (meridians) of the body. It includes rhythmic movement, assisted stretching, range of motion, traction, and compression, among other therapeutic techniques.

Zero Balancing

Zero balancing (ZB) uses skilled touch to balance mind and body, enabling a client to feel a sense of wholeness. The practitioner uses finger pressure and gentle traction on areas of tension in the skeleton, joints, and soft tissue in the body to create fulcrums, or points of balance, around which the body can relax and reorganize.

Physical Therapy and Personal Training

Physical therapy is a non-invasive discipline that helps individuals develop, maintain, and restore maximum body movement and physical function. Personal training Is an individualized service that provides clients with 1:1 guidance around multiple modalities such as calisthenics, balance tools, weights, physio ball, Bosu, machine, pulley, TheraBand, and water.

Chiropractic Care

Chiropractic care focuses on the relationship between the body’s structures, function, and how that relationship affects the preservation and restoration of health. It is well-known for the hands-on technique to adjust imbalances in the skeletal system, particularly the spine.

Mini qEEG and Physio-Stress Evaluation and Interpretation

QEEG Brain Maps measure electrical activity being generated by the brain from sensors placed on the scalp. By comparing your brain activity to recordings donein hundreds of other cases, we can identify patterns related to symptoms like anxiety, depression, or difficulty concentrating.

Heart Rate Variability

Biofeedback (HRV-BF): Heart Rate Variability (HRV) refers to small degrees of change in how fast your heart is beating from moment to moment. In HRV-BF, our technicians use real-time feedback to teach you how to use your breath to improve your HRV.

Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS)

tDCS provides a small amount of electrical stimulation to the scalp to make it easier for neurons to fire. This increases neuroplasticity, which is the brain’s ability to change itself. This is a well-studied and safe method for improving brain function.

Neurofeedback (NF)

In NF, you will learn to modify your brain activity using real-time feedback from an EEG device. In this technique, we use the QEEG Brain Map to identify types of brain activity that are too high or too low. We then use feedback, presented in the form of a computer game that you play with your brain, to help you train your brain find and stay in healthier states.

Audio-Visual Entrainment (AVE)

Brain activity at different speeds, or frequencies, indicates different underlying brain processes. AVE presents light, sound, and a small stimulation on the earlobe together at specific frequencies to shift the speed of brain activity. Because the brain tends to match—or entrain to—the frequencies that are coming in (via light, sound, and touch), this can help push brain activity towards healthier states.