Better Mood, Hormones and Mental Health start here.
Personalized naturopathic medicine that gets to the root of your symptoms.
Mental Health
Get to the biochemical and hormonal bottom of mental health conditions. Learn tools and strategies for dealing with anxiety, depression, and burnout for optimal brain health, mood, and mental well-being.
Hormones
Balance irregularities in adrenal, sex, thyroid, and metabolic hormones for optimal brain function, mood, energy, periods, weight, and sleep, using lifestyle, herbs, and therapeutic nutrients.
The Gut-Brain Connection
Support the microbiome and heal the gut using nutritional therapies, food, and mind-body medicine to support the gut-brain connection for optimal mental health and mood.
Dr. Talia Marcheggiani, ND
The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore, the physician must come from nature, with an open mind.
– Paracelsus
I am an Ontario-registered naturopathic doctor.
I am passionate about health and wellness and what it means to live a beautiful, healthy life.
I’ve never been conventional. I’ve always had a gift for pattern recognition and a penchant for looking beyond the surface of things.
I have a background in science, teaching, and psychology.
My interests and gifts led me to the field of naturopathic medicine, a profession that encourages me to be a doctor, a teacher, a health expert, and an advocate for mental and emotional wellness.
A whole-body person-centred holistic approach
It is much more important to know what sort of person has a disease, than to know what sort of disease a person has.
– Sir William Osler, MD
An In-depth Intake
I want to know you as person, to get to the bottom of your health concerns and symptoms. Naturopathic medicine aims to get to the root cause of disease by putting together your health history, and lab work, with your unique biochemistry, lifestyle and genetics.
An Individualized Assessment
You are more than just a diagnosis or a health condition. You are a unique individual with unique health needs. You deserve to have someone spend time putting all the pieces together to address your specific symptoms and while taking into account your specific preferences and goals.
A Comprehensive Treatment Plan
Medicine goes beyond medication. It involves the food we eat, the social connections we make, our stress management, sleep, and lifestyle habits. Putting it all together and know where to start can be complicated. I provide you with the clarity, strategy, and support to live your healthiest life.
The Good Mood Project
I believe the doctor of the future will be a teacher as well as a physician. His real job will be to teach people how to be healthy.
– D.C. Jarvis
I run a lifestyle medicine education membership site. The Good Mood Project offers individual courses, free challenges, and a private membership community.
Explore lifestyle health education that incorporates nutrition, neuroscience, psychology, yoga, mindfulness, and herbal medicine, to support mood, mental health and hormones.
I also host the program Good Mood Foundations, a 6-week lifestyle program for mental health and emotional wellness.
Frequently Asked Questions:
How much are visits?
Initial Intake: $240
The initial visit is 75-90 minutes long. We spend that time getting to know your health history, the nature of your concerns, your health goals and your lifestyle, putting all the pieces on the table so that we can understand how it all fits.
At the end of the session, I send you home with initial recommendations and some resources.
Research and Care Plan Assembly: Free
I do work between our first and second session to put the pieces of your case together and do the deep dive into what is causing your symptoms.
I then put together a comphrehensive plan to help you take action.
Care Plan Appointment: $160
Scheduled 1 to 2 weeks after the Initial Intake, the Care Plan is where we sit down and go over the recommendations that will help you reach your health goals.
This visit is comprehensive and collaborative. You should walk out of our session with a clear idea of next steps, lots of optimism and excitment to get started.
Subsequent Follow-ups: $115 to $160
I believe that getting to the root cause and empowering transformation takes time. I prefer to spend an hour with patients so that we can get deep enough, and provide the support necessary to help you realize your goals so that you can have the mood and health that supports you in your life: your values and your dreams.
Most of my visits are 1 hour, however I do offer 30-minute appointments for acupuncture, supplement adjustment, and quicker check-ins.
My patients and I typically see each other once every 1 to 2 months for the first year of working together.
Are you covered by insurance?
Most extended health benefits cover naturopathic medicine, which can greatly help you offset the cost of care.
At the end of each session you’ll be issued an invoice that can be used to submit your claim so that you can be reimbursed for the amount that you’re covered.
Check with your insurance company to understand the nature of your coverage and how to submit claims.
Naturopathic medicine is too expensive.
I hear you. Amazing health is a universal right and I believe getting healthy should be free.
However, we know that health is sadly not free–neither is being unwell.
For less than a cup of coffee a day, you can get access to 1 on 1 specialized care with a naturopathic doctor.
If this investment is not realistic for you right now, I also offer foundational programs and free content that can benefit your mental health.
It is possible to start feeling better now–no matter what your financial status.
I don't want to give up coffee or take a ton of supplements.
Me neither! I also don’t want to follow a plan that might make me feel amazing in the short-term, but is expensive, difficult to follow and unsustainable in the long-term.
When creating a Care Plan I collaborate with you to make nutritional, supplemental, herbal and dietary recommendations that fit your health needs, preferences and lifestyle.
We make sure you feel empowered and GOOD when you leave my office and that you are well-supported.
I’m not going to take away your coffee!
I'm already taking medication.
You don’t need to choose!
I work with patients who are already taking medications to manage their mental health (or other) conditions, who are contemplating starting medication, or who are actively weaning from medications and require support.
I am trained to choose safe therapies that will not interfere or interact with your medical plan. I also collaborate with the rest of your circle of care if needed.
I help you develop a comprehensive care strategy that takes into account whatever current strategies you’re using to manage your health and wherever you are on your health journey.
Is naturopathic medicine for mental health evidence-based?
Yes. Research reveals that mental health conditions arise from imbalances in inflammation, oxidative stress, neuroplasticity, hormones and the gut microbiome. In an Australian study 32% of participants that underwent 12 weeks of dietary support and counselling experienced complete remission from their symptoms of depression compared to 8% remission achieved from medications and 12 weeks of therapy (1).
Mental health conditions stem from various biochemical, hormonal, and environmental drivers that I believe can be reversed if properly identified.
Many promising studies show that diet, exercise, social interaction, sleep hygiene, nutritional supplementation and herbal medicine all have merit in reducing symptoms of mental health conditions.
1. Jacka, F.N., O’Neil, A., Opie, R. et al. A randomised controlled trial of dietary improvement for adults with major depression (the ‘SMILES’ trial). BMC Med 15, 23 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-017-0791-y
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