Umu Coomber Benjamin

Umu Benjamin is a Holistic Integrative Nutritional Psychiatry Nurse Practitioner with over 15 years of medical nursing clinical hands-on experience in critical care medicine, emergency room, as well as inpatient psychiatry training and experience. She is trained as a nutritional and integrative psychiatric healthcare provider with a personal background in herbal and supplementation medicine. During her years as a clinical provider, she has provided her clients with remarkable holistic and scientifically proven care to help support their wellness. She started her clinical practice because of her love of health and wellness with a mindset that mental wellness requires multi-dimensional interventions.A multifaceted approach that understands that to sustain true wellness, we must manage and correct blood chemistry abnormalities, emotional abnormalities, nutritional abnormalities, gut health, toxins, and environmental or potential disease states. These abnormalities can exacerbate or …cascade the onset of mental illness that cannot be gained or sustained as a wellness approach using interventions that only utilize psychotropics.She understands the importance of assessing these root causes while understanding that all wellness journeys are difficult yet achievable. Wellness is also a unique process for everyone. Individualistic treatment has always been the core of her practice- a holistic individualistic approach. Understand that your wellness should combine traditional, alternative, conventional, and non-conventional medicine, food hygiene, herbal medicine, many wellness books, podcasts, meditation, therapy, dance, exercise, good people, etc. She wants to help you learn how to maintain your wellness that can be established around your everyday routines and sustained through consistency with the support of a provider/s that understands and is capable of supporting you.