From Mat to Couch: Integrating Yoga and Mental Health with Veronique Robins-Brown, M.D.

Whole Body Mental Health Radio

Veronique Robins-Brown, M.D., is a psychiatrist in private practice, integrating yoga, mindfulness, nutrition, and psychotherapy into her work with patients. Dr. Robins-Brown is Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Tulane, where she facilitates two courses for residents: Integrative Psychiatry and Personal Wellness. Dr. Robins-Brown has deep interest in mindfulness, natural healing techniques, and integrative medicine. She has always been driven by her desire to heal people—and to do so as naturally as possible—constantly exploring new ways to help people heal themselves. During residency Dr. Robins-Brown became a Registered Yoga Teacher and taught yoga to hundreds of psychiatric patients on inpatient units and at the Veteran’s Administration’s Intensive Outpatient program for Substance Abuse in New Orleans. After finishing her psychiatry residency at Tulane University, Dr. Robins-Brown embarked upon a journey across much of the United States and parts of India searching for insights into integrative medicine, especially as it pertains to mental health. During her journey, she met and learned from physicians, psychologists, yoga teachers, naturopathic doctors, and other healers. While in India, Dr. Robins-Brown studied at the National Institute for Mental Health and Neuroscience (NIMHANS), an allopathic hospital researching yoga in mental health disorders, in Bangalore, where she was honored to teach staff, faculty and patients yoga. www.soulfulpsychiatry.com