AMANDA BROWN, PA-C, MMSc

Founder of Carolina Integrative Psychiatry

I am a licensed and certified Physician Assistant with a Master’s degree in medical science from Wake Forest School of Medicine and a Bachelor’s of Arts degree in philosophy. I have a very well rounded background that includes over 6 years of experience; this includes over 2 years experience working as a PA-C in the hospital medical intensive care unit and over 3 years experience working in outpatient psychiatry and addiction medicine.

I am a seeker of knowledge, a lover of logic, and I have a passion for philosophically and ethically sound decision making. “Knowledge” has never been a straightforward concept to me and as I learned while studying philosophy that’s because it’s not! As I have had many experiences with the standard medical approach and the boundaries of “knowledge” it operates within I have become frustrated with the feeling that this approach is incomplete and unfairly limited. It lacks nuance and logic and treats a whole as merely parts. The more experience I gain as a medical provider the more I feel my passion for logic driving me towards an integrative, root cause approach to health - an approach that makes sense. I truly feel this is the most thorough, logical, and ethical approach to healthcare and I hope that someday it will become the standard of care.

I believe mental health is inseparable from physical health and that most mental health disorders have at least some root causes that lie outside the brain and are not addressed by traditional psychiatric pharmaceuticals alone. Symptoms may improve temporarily with conventional psychotropic medicine, however when root causes go untreated the symptoms often come back again and again. The patient gets caught in an endless cycle of dose adjustments, medication changes, and unpleasant side effects. My goal is to treat mental illness at the source in order to provide lasting relief and true healing.