Axis Integrated Mental Health is Colorado’s leading clinic for
alternative depression treatments, offering integrative psychiatry, therapy,
Spravato treatment,
Deep TMS, and
TMS treatment within one collaborative care team. We provide accessible, evidence-based options for people who have not found relief with traditional antidepressants, helping patients recover faster with treatments that go beyond medication. Our mission is to make advanced depression care simple, compassionate, and personalized so individuals can finally experience real improvement after years of trial and error. We are committed to helping people reclaim their lives through proven, innovative therapies designed for
treatment-resistant depression and complex mental health needs.
Axis Integrated Mental Health releases a free 34-page Holiday Wellness Survival Kit with practical strategies for managing holiday anxiety & seasonal depression “A kit can help with holiday stress. It can’t treat depression. If the low mood started long before the holidays, that’s our cue.” — Dr. Kartiki Churi, MD DENVER, CO, UNITED STATES, October…
The advice to “get outside” is easy to give and hard to take in December, when the sun sets by 4:30, and the couch is right there. But Boulder has a particular advantage most winter cities don’t: south-facing trails that catch sun all afternoon, and many of them are a short drive from our Louisville…
Written by Kat Kreiger, PA-C, and clinically reviewed by Kartiki Churi, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Axis Integrated Mental Health, Denver Tech Center. Antidepressants fail because of two main reasons: a) trial may have been too short, b) an underlying condition may be undiagnosed/misdiagnosed. Also, lack of sleep, hormonal imbalance, or untreated trauma can lead to…
Most holiday advice tells you what to do. Journaling asks you what you want, which is a different question and often a harder one. By the first week of December, many people are running on a list of obligations they never chose, and they haven’t had ten quiet minutes to notice. These eight prompts come…
Written by Samrawit Mersha (PMHNP-BC), and clinically reviewed by Kartiki Churi, MD, MBA, FAPA, Chief Medical Officer, Axis Integrated Mental Health. Lexapro often feels like it is not working in the fall because shorter days change how your brain handles serotonin; the same chemical Lexapro works on. Some people also build tolerance to SSRIs over…
Somewhere between the second scroll and the third cup of coffee, the holidays stop being something you do and start being something you are graded on. The table is not styled. The lights are not synced. The cookies came from a box. None of this would bother you in March, but in December it lands…
Everything you need to know about your benefits, your options, and how to get the care you deserve without the runaround. Introduction Mental health care in Colorado has never been more accessible. In fact, we rank #14 for access to care but #50 for the prevalence of mental illness amongst all states. The issue is…
There is a particular kind of quiet at a holiday table when a chair is empty. It can arrive the first year or the tenth. It can be set off by a recipe, a song in a grocery store, or nothing you can name. And it tends to show up at exactly the moment everyone…
A companion guide for partners launches alongside it, because the people closest to her usually have no idea what’s happening either. Every perimenopausal woman I see has already built a case against herself.” — Dr. Kartiki Churi, Chief Medical Officer at Axis Integrated Mental Health Axis Integrated Mental Health today released Perimenopause? Or Does Your…
If you know which cousin is vegetarian, which gift still needs wrapping, and what time the airport shuttle leaves, you already know the answer to this question. The holidays do not land on everyone equally. In our clinics, the weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year’s bring a wave of women who are less sad than…
Taking an antidepressant every day, doing everything right, and still feeling low as the days get shorter is one of the most common situations we see in January. It is also one of the most discouraging, because it can feel like the last option has already been used. It has not. This post explains why…
Most people expect seasonal depression to announce itself as sadness. It usually does not start that way. For many people, the first changes are in sleep, appetite, and energy, and those changes can begin weeks before mood drops. This post lists those early signs in plain language, explains when seasonal depression tends to start and…
