Integrative Medicine at Stanford Hospital, featuring David Spiegel, MD
The Stanford Center for Integrative Medicine offers patients alternative medicine approaches in addition to the mainstream medical care they receive.
Center for Integrative Medicine
Integrative Medicine combines the best of mental (meditation, hypnosis), nutritional, acupuncture, and lifestyle treatments with mainstream modern medicine and psychotherapy to provide care for the whole person: mind and body. Started in 1998, the Stanford Center for Integrative Medicine (SCIM) is committed to evidence-based practices. We are here to help you live more fully, cope better with your medical condition, control symptoms, and participate more fully in your medical care.
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Center for Integrative Medicine
Maps & Directions
211 Quarry Road2nd Floor, Suite 205
Palo Alto, CA 94304
Phone: 650-498-5566 Getting Here »
Our Doctors
Care and Treatment
Comprehensive Evaluation and Integrative Medicine Counseling
We provide an hour-long evaluation and counseling program to help patients match integrative medicine offerings with individual needs. This involves assessing medical problems, coping resources, family and social support, and evaluating patient goals, abilities, and opportunities.
We help patients evaluate available non-traditional treatment options. We help patients to combine "alternative" techniques, including acupuncture, hypnosis, mindfulness, and information regarding dietary supplements, with traditional medical care.
Our evaluation and counseling staff includes a physician-naturopath, an internal medicine/psychiatrist, and a psychiatrist.
In health, mind matters. David Spiegel of Stanford University’s School of Medicine explains what happens in the brain when somebody is hypnotized, and how hypnosis can reduce pain, improve cancer survival rates and help people stop smoking.
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A reliable source of information about Integrative Medicine is the National Institute of Health's National Center for Complementary & Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) website.
Individual psychotherapy
Enables patients to cope with current stresses that cause anxiety, chronic pain, fatigue, depression and uncomfortable physical symptoms. Can be combined with other techniques such as hypnosis or guided imagery, as well as medication.
Medical hypnosis
Enables patients to focus intently on a specific problem and its resolution while maintaining a comfortable state of physical relaxation.
Make an Appointment
Returning Patient
To request an appointment, call 650-498-5566.
Please bring a completed Integrative Medicine Clinical Intake Form to your appointment.
