Dr. Brown views each person as an individual with a complex dimension of personal existence.  As such, he fully endorses the psychiatric concept of the bio-psycho-social-spiritual model, and thoroughly rejects a purely biomedical perspective of psychiatric diagnosis and treatment.  

The Bio-Psycho-Social-Spiritual model of psychiatry [and life] basically suggests there are parts of a problem that relate to your body, your mind, your social group, and your life meaning.  The focus on body might include exercise, diet, relaxation exercises, meditation, and potentially medication.  My philosophy is the fewer medications that provide response the better.  The the focus on mind, which includes how you see the world, your lifelong patterns of coping, and psychotherapeutic models of intervention to help you see beyond your personal blindspots.  The focus on your social world includes relationships both personal and at work.  and finally, the focus on the spiritual includes how you see yourself in the context of bigger life questions and your meaning in life.  

Dr. Brown is adept in multiple schools of psychotherapy, hypnosis, and psychopharmacology.   This includes newer researched psychotherapies such as EMDR and various Energy Psychologies, in addition to more traditional therapies including 5-PATH® Hypnosis, 7th Path Self Hypnosis®, and psychodynamically informed therapy.  I do not provide basic CBT or DBT, although elements of each may be woven into other modalities.

His supervision and teaching of resident physicians at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at the University of Nevada Las Vegas has helped him remain current in each of these areas of practice.  

He has interest in models of Transpersonal Psychiatry, meditation, the ideas of Carl Jung, M.D., and the philosophical questions related to mind-brain interaction.  For additional information about Dr. Brown’s training, please review the home page.