Blossom Center for Integrative Psychiatry

Blossom Center for Integrative Psychiatry is a psychiatrist in Hybla Valley, VA, located on King St. The practice offers psychiatric evaluations, medication management, psychotherapy, supplements, nutritional counseling, and cognitive-behavioral therapy for insomnia, treating conditions that include depression, anxiety, insomnia, trauma, feeding and nutritional issues, and the mental health of children and teenagers. Services are available both in person and remotely. The practice holds a rating of 5.00 based on 3 reviews.

Blossom Center for Integrative Psychiatry was founded on the understanding that treating mental health requires treating the entire person, and the center assesses emotional, psychological, and physical domains in its care. Dr. Weisheng Renee Mao is the Founder and Medical Director. She completed the George Washington University BA/MD Program with a BS in Economics, attended the George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, finished a psychiatry residency at George Washington University, completed a residency fellowship in health policy at George Washington University, and trained at the University of New England in Acumed Integrated Structural [acupuncture]. Dr. Mao describes her work as a partnership aimed at helping patients understand themselves and become informed authors of their own stories.

The center's services include psychodynamic therapy, which focuses on uncovering one's deepest self by working through disconnects between thought, feeling, want, and behavior; child and teen psychiatry and therapy delivered with attention to the specific challenges faced by young patients and their families; detailed medication and supplement management that frames pharmacology as part of a broader plan; and a six-to-ten week course of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I), the first-line treatment for insomnia recommended by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.

Dr. Mao's path to psychiatry ran through the humanities, economics, medicine, and ethics before she settled on the field as the discipline that got to the heart of why people feel the way they feel and how they can become the person they want to be. That integrative way of thinking shapes the center's combination of therapy, medication, supplements, and nutrition in Alexandria.