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.
Pregnancy and the postpartum period are often portrayed as joyful, picture-perfect times. Glowing expectant mothers, smiling babies, and happy families. But for many, reality includes moments of deep sadness, anxiety, or emotional numbness that don’t seem to lift. Perinatal depression occurs during pregnancy and affects far more families than most realize. The World Health Organization…
October is the right month to prepare for winter, because in January the energy to prepare is exactly what is missing. Small changes made now, while the days are still long enough to notice them, are easier to keep than changes attempted in the middle of the hardest weeks. One thing to say clearly before…
You can find help at Axis Integrated Mental Health in their Aurora clinic led by Dr. Kartiki Churi (MBA, FAPA, MD Psychiatry). Axis is a top-rated mental health clinic with four locations (Denver, Boulder, Westminster, and DTC) and is the trusted referral partner for integrative psychiatry for PCPs, Psychiatrists, and Providers. Traditional medication management can…
Mindbloom and Spravato both use ketamine-based approaches for mental health treatment, but they differ substantially in how treatment is delivered, monitored, and regulated. Mindbloom provides prescribed ketamine for use at home, with treatment supported remotely and a designated peer monitor present during dosing. This model may appeal to people who prioritize convenience and prefer receiving…
Light therapy and antidepressants help many people with seasonal depression. This post is for the people they have not helped enough. If the winter pattern has returned two, three, or five years in a row despite a lamp, therapy, or medication, the question is not whether you tried hard enough. The question is what else…
Dr. Kartiki Churi of Axis Integrated Mental Health will present a CME session for clinicians on September 1, exploring gender differences in depression, treatment-resistant depression, perinatal mental health and when to consider treatments such as TMS Men in Colorado die by suicide at more than three times the rate of women. Yet men who die…
Colorado is one of the sunniest states in the country. Every fall, people here still notice the same slump: more sleep, less energy, more irritability, and a mood that sinks as the days get shorter. Many of them assume it cannot be seasonal depression, because seasonal depression is supposed to be a problem for cloudy…
Written by Kartiki Churi, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Axis Integrated Mental Health If you refer patients for mental health care, you already sense the pattern. Some patients get labeled fast. Some get missed for years. And more often than we want to admit, the split tracks with the patient’s gender. This is a short, evidence-based…
Some people start an antidepressant and, after a few weeks, notice the sadness is gone. Then they notice that other things are gone too. Good news does not land. Bad news does not either. Music, food, and people they love feel muted. They are not sad anymore, and they are not much of anything else.…
How to Tell Depression Fatigue From Antidepressant Fatigue? Depression fatigue is exhaustion caused by depression itself. It usually comes with a low mood or loss of interest. It does not lift with rest, and for many people it is worse in the morning. Antidepressant fatigue is tiredness that tracks your medication. It often starts or…
Struggling to find effective depression care for your teen? Discover how TMS treatment offers a safe, medication-free option for teenage depression in Colorado. Learn how it works, its benefits, and how to get started with Axis. *Please note, this blog is intended to guide alternative treatments for teenage depression and does not constitute medical advice.…
Struggling with treatment-resistant depression that won’t lift? Get cutting-edge, insurance-covered treatment in Boulder, Denver & Westminster. Explore TMS, Ketamine (Spravato) & more. Start your recovery at Axis—book today. Advanced Depression Treatments in Boulder, Denver, and Westminster: What Works When Nothing Else Has When depression won’t lift despite therapy and antidepressants, it’s not your fault—and it’s…
