About
Dr. Jingna Zhao
Medical
I am trained and board certified in both family medicine and psychiatry and pay close attention to medical conditions that can be impacted by or contribute to mental health issues.
Nutritional Psychiatry
Trained in the latest gut-brain research, I completed MGH Certification in Nutrition and Mental Health to develop evidence-based treatments of mental health conditions with food as medicine.
Personalized and progressive nutritional strategies can optimize your gut microbiome, brain chemistry, inflammation, and even your genetics.
I am also trained and certified in Advanced Ketogenic Nutrition.
Whole Person Approach
Your cultural influences that go beyond ethnicity or race, your family dynamics, sense of duty, job demands, core beliefs, values, interests, insecurities, introversion/extroversion, strengths, personality traits, and dreams are all important and relevant to your wellness.
Autonomy
Your goals, values and priorities matter in selecting the right medications, therapy modalities, behavioral interventions, and dietary prescriptions. There are always options and alternatives.
Hope
Everyone has strengths. Everyone makes progress. Everyone can find hope.
Favorite Quotes
When "I" becomes "We", Illness becomes Wellness
Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
Do not let perfection get in the way of progress
Never underestimate the power of a small group of committed people to change the world. In fact, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
Nothing is as bad or as good as it seems
Ideologies separate us.
Dreams and anguish bring us together.
- Eugene Ionesco