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Mental Disorders Treated

Balanced Living Psychiatry provides adults with medication management, psychotherapy, and complementary practices for treatment of a broad spectrum of mental disorders. Dr. Michelle Zipperman specializes in helping overworked professionals; patients in life transitions such as adjusting to college, parenting, divorce, or empty nest scenarios; parenting challenges; and general depression due to a lack of meaning in life or low confidence. Dr. Zipperman has clinical experience treating cancer patients and served at Overlake Hospital as the principle psychiatrist providing consultations for oncology patients in the outpatient setting. She uses psychiatric medications and complimentary therapies to help with sleep disorders, low appetite, anxiety/ depression, and fatigue that often arise as patients undergo cancer treatment.

Psychiatric Conditions

Some of the conditions treated at Balanced Living Psychiatry with our unique integrative psychiatry techniques include:

Anxiety Disorders:

  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder
  • Social Anxiety
  • Panic Disorder
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
  • Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

Depression:

  • Chronic Depression
  • Complex Grief Reaction
  • Adjustment Disorders
  • Illness-related Depression
    • Cancer
    • Chronic Pain
    • Fibromyalgia
    • Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
    • Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder
    • Seasonal Affective Disorder
    • Perimenopausal Depression

Other Mental Disorders:

  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Adult ADHD
  • Postpartum/Perinatal Mood Symptoms
  • Eating Disorders
  • Work and Relationship Stress
  • Difficulties with Transitions (such as leaving for college and empty nest syndrome)
  • Dr. Zipperman has a great deal of experience and special interest in helping overworked professionals struggling with work-life balance; also, patients in early adulthood with the unique struggles millennials face today.

Contact Dr. Zipperman, Psychiatrist in Seattle, WA

For a treatment plan tailored specifically for you and your mental disorder, make an appointment with Dr. Zipperman today. Give us a call at Balanced Living Psychiatry in Seattle, Washington at (206) 914-9254, or request an appointment online.