Integrative Medicine in Farmington Hills & Ferndale, Michigan

Hi, I’m Dr. Hawkins! In my practice as a board certified osteopathic family medicine physician with over a decade of healthcare experience, I began to recognize a recurrent pattern in my patients presenting for common physical health problems who often had an accompanied underlying and unaddressed psychological condition. Upon further investigation, I discovered that these were frequently related to life stressors that impacted their sleep, nutrition, activity, work, mood, and interpersonal relationships. Utilizing my background and education in psychology, I integrated this therapeutic approach to patient care by emphasizing healthy lifestyle modification. In my work with patients, I recognize the strong association between diet, exercise, sleep quality, stress management, family bonds, cultural background, use of positive coping skills, and environmental influences on health. I was trained in the philosophy that the individual person is a unit composed of the mind, body, and spirit and the health of the individual is contingent upon the integration and the harmonious functioning of these three component parts.