Healing Your Mind
Starts With Understanding
Your Body
Root-cause metabolic psychiatry and functional medicine for depression, anxiety, and fatigue, so you can finally understand what your symptoms are trying to tell you.
IFM CERTIFIED 2014
PSYCHIATRIST
UNITED HEALTHCARE IN-NETWORK
DENVER, CO
There’s a Deeper Reason You Feel This Way
Living with depression, anxiety, fatigue, or insomnia can feel incredibly isolating. You may be exhausted from pushing through each day, frustrated by treatments that only seem to manage symptoms, and discouraged by prescriptions that come with unwanted side effects.
You may be asking yourself, “Is this just my life now?”
Dragging yourself through the day. Running on empty. Feeling like you are surviving instead of truly living.
But your mental health symptoms are not separate from your body. Depression and anxiety can be connected to underlying metabolic issues, nutrient deficiencies, inflammation, hormonal shifts, gut health, or other imbalances.
When you understand the connection between your brain and your body, healing becomes possible.
There is another way forward. Let’s find the root cause together.
Meet Dr. Mary Braud: Your Partner in Metabolic Psychiatry
I know how exhausting it is to keep searching for answers when the treatments you were told would help fall short. I have sat with that frustration alongside my patients, and I have felt it myself as a physician trained to trust a system that too often overlooks the full picture.
Through my work in metabolic health and psychiatry, I began to see the limitations of the “chemical imbalance” narrative. It did not fully explain what I was witnessing in real people with complex, interconnected symptoms. I knew there had to be more. That realization led me to pursue deeper training and ultimately complete my certification through the Institute for Functional Medicine in 2014.
Today, I am part of a small but growing movement in metabolic psychiatry, one that looks beyond symptom management and toward true root-cause healing. This is not just an approach I teach. It is a way of living that I embody every day.
My mission is not to “fix” you. It is to walk alongside you as you reconnect with your body, understand the deeper drivers of your symptoms, and reclaim agency over your mental and physical health. Because when you begin to address the root causes, you do not just feel better. You can truly live your life on your terms, not held hostage by your symptoms.
Uncover the Root of Your Symptoms. Reclaim Your Life.
Through root-cause metabolic psychiatry and functional medicine, we create a personalized healing plan designed to support your brain, body, energy, and long-term well-being.
Together, we look beyond symptom management to uncover what is really driving your depression, anxiety, fatigue, or insomnia.
Complete the Inquiry Form
Fill out a brief form to help us understand your primary concerns, past treatments, and goals. Once submitted, we will reach out via email to schedule a complimentary 20-minute consultation call.
Comprehensive Evaluation & Labs
Over the course of two visits, we will conduct a thorough bio-psycho-social assessment. We will often start with targeted amino acid therapy or supplements to provide immediate symptom relief while we order and review comprehensive laboratory tests, such as a nutritional panel, to identify underlying imbalances.
Your Personalized Wellness Plan
Based on your lab results and our discussions, we will create a customized treatment plan. This plan may include conventional treatments if needed, along with specific recommendations for nutrition, high-quality supplements, movement, and relaxation techniques to maximize your well-being.
Transparent Pricing and Insurance
We believe in making holistic care accessible. Dr. Braud is currently contracted with United Healthcare. For patients with other insurance providers, we operate on an out-of-pocket basis. We are happy to provide superbills upon request for you to submit for potential out-of-network reimbursement.
What Staying Stuck Costs You
Another year of waking up exhausted. Another conversation with your doctor that ends with a higher dose and a few more medications. Another birthday, another holiday, another ordinary Tuesday where you feel like you are dredging through quicksand.
What most people do not realize is that the depression, the anxiety, the relentless fatigue are not just emotional struggles. They are often your body’s warning signal that something deeper is going wrong. Unaddressed metabolic imbalances do not stay contained to your mood. They affect your cardiovascular health, your hormones, your brain function, and your long-term risk for serious conditions like dementia and type 2 diabetes.
Every year that passes without addressing the root cause is a year your body is working against you while you believe you are simply managing a mental health condition. The fog gets thicker. The frustration turns inward. The life you imagined for yourself starts to feel like it belongs to someone else.
You do not have to wait any longer. And you do not have to keep settling for existing and not living.
What Healing Actually Feels Like
Imagine waking up and not immediately dreading the day. Not because a medication has numbed the edges, but because your body is finally getting what it has always needed.
When we address the metabolic root causes driving your depression, anxiety, and fatigue, something remarkable happens. Your energy returns. Your thinking is clear. The weight you have been carrying, not just physically but emotionally, begins to lift. Patients who commit to this process often experience improvements in mood, sleep, metabolic health markers, and overall sense of vitality, sometimes within days of beginning targeted nutritional support.
This is what it looks like when your brain and your body are finally working together instead of against each other. You become more present for the people you love. More capable at work. More like yourself than you have felt in years.
This is not about managing your condition for the rest of your life. It is about understanding what your body has been trying to tell you, and finally giving it the answer it needs.
Ready to Stop Managing Symptoms and Start Healing?
Take the first step toward a holistic, root-cause approach to your mental health. Let’s uncover what is really going on and build a plan to get your life back.