Medically Trained Integrative Doctor & Psychiatrist
Healing at a
deeper level,
together
"To effectively support someone on their healing journey, I believe it is necessary to understand them and their uniqueness in their entirety — their physical, mental and spiritual health, and in the context of their social relationships and environment. It is this holistic care and approach that I apply in my practice."
Neuroscience
Surgery
Research, UCL
Psychiatrists
mGNC assoc.
Integrative &
Functional Health
Identifying root causes of disease through a whole-systems approach — addressing energy delivery, diet, environment and lifestyle to restore balance naturally, without pharmaceutical suppression.
ExploreMental Health &
Psychiatry
Integrating biological, psychological and social perspectives. Understanding the cellular and metabolic roots of mental health, far beyond the outdated theory of neurotransmitter imbalance alone.
ExploreReproductive &
Fertility Health
Supporting couples from preconception to parenthood. Combining functional medicine, psychiatry and integrative care for your fertility journey — because you should not navigate this alone.
ExploreMy Approach
Root cause.
Not symptom suppression.
Modern healthcare can lack continuity and care oversight, undervaluing the doctor-patient relationship. Standard practice is diagnostically driven — observing symptoms and seeking to suppress them, often with only temporary relief at a cost.
Without wider systemic thinking and understanding of individuals in the context of their biological, social and psychological environment, there are missed opportunities for more effective, sustained healing at a deeper cellular level.
Biological
Cellular, metabolic & energy delivery systems
Psychological
Developmental, systemic & relational understanding
Social
Environment, relationships & lifestyle context
Spiritual
Identity, purpose & the whole person
The fundamental principles and approach used across all areas of health is applicable for all needs. As a medically trained, integrative doctor and psychiatrist, I am uniquely placed to achieve truly holistic care.
— Dr. Naomi Oteh
A Few Happy Words
"Naomi always treats me with such great care. She listens to me and takes on board my opinions. She has fantastic interpersonal skills and is brilliant when it comes to family integrated care approaches."
Patient Review
Integrative Health Consultation
"Naomi has been fantastic with my child — she is a fountain of knowledge."
Parent Review
Child & Family Care
"Consider me your holistic, cradle to grave, integrative psychiatrist."
— Dr. Naomi Oteh
About Me
A doctor who truly
sees the whole you
I am a medically trained consultant doctor with specialist training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and further training in Integrative and Naturopathic medicine. I have worked for over a decade within the NHS but have increasingly felt limited by the system and the current medical model.
Having worked in and navigated my own health journey within the system, I am aware of the shortcomings of standard practice as well as its strengths. This personal experience and the traditional training I have received, combined with my further learning in integrative practice, compels me to help others navigate their health challenges more effectively, with deeper understanding, compassion and support.
My practice seeks to identify the root cause of disease and address these with holistic treatment methods, integrating lifestyle, psychological and medical approaches, according to the needs of the individual. I have interests in Mental Health, Functional Health, and Reproductive Health.
Why I Practice This Way
Modern healthcare
can do better
Modern healthcare can lack continuity and care oversight and in doing so, undervalues the importance of the doctor-patient relationship in medicine. Standard practice is diagnostically driven — despite a diagnosis telling you nothing about the pathology — observes symptoms and seeks to suppress them with a pharmacological agent.
Without wider systemic thinking and understanding of individuals in the context of their biological, social and psychological environment, there are missed opportunities for more effective, sustained healing at a deeper cellular level.
I have interests in Mental Health, Functional Health, and Reproductive Health — consider me your holistic, cradle to grave, integrative psychiatrist.
— Dr. Naomi Oteh
Integrative / Functional Health
Energy. Food.
Light & Spirit.
The functional health medicine approach to healthcare recognises the body as a powerful and complex, interconnected system. It considers the genetics, epigenetics, environmental and lifestyle factors that contribute to an individual's health and aims to identify and treat the root cause of disease, rather than treating symptoms through suppression.
Functional medicine is a holistic, system-based, individualised approach, which creates a deeper understanding of health and wellness, and the needs of the individual. It recognises individuals as experts of their own body, and through partnership, empowers them to make meaningful change by harnessing the body's innate healing ability.
Root Cause Identification
Rather than managing symptoms, we identify and address the underlying physiological imbalances driving your presentation — at a cellular and metabolic level.
Energy Delivery Systems
Optimal mitochondrial function and energy delivery are foundational to all health. Disruptions here underlie many chronic conditions — fatigue, mood disorders and beyond.
Diet & Nutrition
The correct fuel for your body is essential. We work with you to identify nutritional needs, address deficiencies and optimise your dietary approach for your unique biochemistry.
Light & Circadian Health
Indoor living and excessive blue light exposure disrupt our circadian biology. Addressing light exposure is a key, often overlooked pillar of optimal health.
Inflammation & Oxidative Stress
Chronic low-grade inflammation and oxidative stress are modifiable contributors to most chronic disease — through targeted lifestyle and environmental interventions.
Hormonal Balance
Hormonal imbalances — thyroid, adrenal, reproductive — are frequently missed or under-treated. An integrative approach assesses and addresses these comprehensively.
The Overarching Concept
Symptoms are
signals, not sentences
Symptoms and disease are the result of imbalances in physiological systems due to dysfunction at a cellular and metabolic level. Possible contributors — including light/circadian disruption, inflammation, insulin resistance, oxidative stress and hormonal imbalances — are often due to lifestyle and environmental factors.
Significantly, these are modifiable. The aim is to rebalance the body as naturally as possible, without the need for pharmaceutical medications.
The aim is to rebalance the body as naturally as possible — harnessing its innate healing ability, without the need for pharmaceutical medications.
— Practice Philosophy
Mental Health
Mind, Epigenetics
& Family History
There is no distinction between physical and mental health. The body is a complex interconnected system, where symptoms — though they may present in different physiological and anatomical systems — have common underlying root causes.
Having trained in traditional medicine and psychiatry, and with further training in integrative health, I believe that understanding mental health presentations in their physiological and cellular context creates further opportunities for targeted healing, through lifestyle and environmental changes.
Hypertension, diabetes and PCOS all have underlying metabolic dysfunction. Similarly, mental health disorders presenting with changes to mood and behaviour may also have metabolic dysfunction, oxidative stress, inflammation, insulin resistance, hormone imbalances or gut dysbiosis as underlying pathology. All these potential causes have genetic and epigenetic underpinnings but can be modified through environmental exposures and lifestyle.
The Biopsychosocial Model — Expanded
Biological
Beyond genetics and neurotransmitters — includes metabolic function, inflammation, oxidative stress, hormones, gut health and energy delivery at a cellular level.
Psychological
Early childhood experiences, attachment, developmental history, identity, cognitive patterns and emotional regulation — understood with compassion and depth.
Social
Relationships within family systems, community, work and cultural context — including daily structure, routine, purpose and social support networks.
Environmental & Epigenetic
How lifestyle exposures — light, toxins, diet, stress — modify gene expression, creating further opportunities for targeted, meaningful change.
What Conventional Psychiatry Has Done Well
Developmental, systemic & biological —
together at last
What conventional psychiatry has done well — particularly in child and adolescent psychiatry — is to understand an individual and their family needs in the context of the psychological and social environment. It recognises the importance of early childhood experiences and development, attachment and relationships within social systems, identity and daily structure.
In taking a developmental, systemic and biological view of an individual's presentation, a comprehensive formulation and understanding of needs can be built to inform a treatment plan. This approach not only recognises the interconnectedness within biological systems, but also the connection between the body and mind, and the bidirectional effects they have on one another.
It is therefore not just desirable that there is parity between mental and physical health, but essential that they are seen as one. This is the ethos I apply to my practice to support individuals and families on their healing journey.
To my mind, having trained in traditional medicine and psychiatry, there is no distinction between physical and mental health. The body is a complex interconnected system.
— Dr. Naomi Oteh
Reproductive Health
From the cradle
to the grave
One of my primary motivations for choosing child and adolescent mental health for specialty training was the opportunity to prevent serious and enduring mental health issues in adulthood. I now believe that prevention starts before birth — and even at the preconception stage.
There is a unique opportunity to support couples to optimise their health and their relationship before they start their family. The health of the child and progress of the pregnancy depends on the health of both parents before conception and has implications for generations to come.
Today, 1 in 6 couples worldwide are struggling with fertility challenges. Finding yourself on this path can be one of the most painful, raw, vulnerable and isolating human experiences you can go through. Through an integrative, restorative lens it is possible to understand why a couple may be struggling, and design a plan to support them to heal, optimise their health, and build their family.
Many couples are left heartbroken, without answers — navigating various disjointed medical systems whilst holding on to nothing but hope and each other. You should not have to do this alone.
— Dr. Naomi Oteh
Services Offered
Functional Preconception Optimisation
Comprehensive assessment and optimisation of both partners' health before conception — nutrition, hormones, lifestyle and emotional readiness — laying the best possible foundation for a healthy pregnancy and child.
Overcoming Fertility Challenges
An integrative, restorative approach to understanding why you may be struggling. Working with you to identify and address the root causes — medical, nutritional, hormonal and psychological — with onward specialist referral where needed.
Emotional & Psychological Support
Individual and couples support through one of life's most challenging journeys. Navigating the medical, psychological, social and spiritual dimensions of fertility — with compassion, expertise and continuity of care.
The Bigger Picture
Prevention begins
before birth
The father contributes genes that make up the trophoblast of an embryo that becomes the placenta, which determines the health of the child and mother during pregnancy. The mother not only contributes the mitochondrial line through generations, but determines the health of her granddaughter's eggs.
The mother's nutrition, wellbeing and behaviour throughout pregnancy also affects outcomes of the pregnancy, birth and child — so supporting mothers and their partners is essential from the very start. It is one of the biggest transitions people go through in life, both as individuals and as a couple.
If assisted conception techniques are appropriate, the preparation and work put in ahead of this process are foundational to the success of the technology, and the health of mother and baby.
— Practice Philosophy
Dr Sarah Myhill
A mentor, trailblazer
& dear friend
Dr Sarah Myhill is a GP by background, working as an ecological practitioner and naturopath. I met Sarah at a conference just as the wave of the Covid Era was coming to an end — she was a keynote speaker outlining a dietary approach for optimal energy delivery mechanisms, with emphasis on the need for the correct fuel for the tank.
Anyone who has come across Sarah will appreciate her immense breadth and depth of knowledge, her enthusiasm, energy and generosity with which she delivers her teaching. It is utterly captivating. I sent her an email seeking personal and professional advice, and she invited me to her home at Upper Weston to see how she worked.
I have since frequented Upper Weston several times to attend her workshops, to disciple under her, and help with the odd gardening task! I regularly attend her quarterly peer supervision and CPD online group, along with other like-minded medically trained professionals. More than a mentor, Sarah is a brave and unwavering trailblazer, a true matriarchal tribal leader, and a dear friend.
Why She Matters
What it means
to be a good doctor
Far from being a troublemaker for the General Medical Council, my observations have been that Sarah works, thinks and practices in a way that more closely embodies what it means to be a good doctor than any other I have met throughout my career.
Covid uncovered and highlighted a lot of concerns I had about the limitations of the medical system. I was seeking professional and personal guidance for healing beyond the centralised arena. Sarah provided exactly that — and continues to do so through her quarterly peer supervision and CPD online group, alongside other like-minded medically trained professionals.
Not only am I privileged to have Sarah as a mentor — to have the opportunity to discuss cases and explore new health ideas with her — but I am honoured to receive regular referrals from her.
Sarah is a brave and unwavering trailblazer — a true matriarchal tribal leader. Her immense breadth and depth of knowledge is utterly captivating.
— Dr. Naomi Oteh on Dr Sarah Myhill
Costs & Fees
Transparent,
considered pricing
The fees below are reflective of my consultant-level expertise and experience, and the time I invest in each client. Initial consultations, including the time taken to complete the client management frame, are longer and more comprehensive than you will find at most independent practices.
I believe that a thorough assessment from the outset is more helpful and saves time, uncertainty and cost overall. All initial appointments include interpretation of any recent blood tests.
All initial assessments include a written report and client management frame, with interpretation of any recent blood tests — because understanding should never be rushed.
Onward referral pathways to psychologists, therapists and specialist fertility services are available where required. Charitable funding is available for those in financial need — please contact us to enquire.
General / Functional Health
Initial Integrative Assessment
Incl. report & blood test interpretation
£775
Follow-up — 30 mins
£125
Follow-up — 60 mins
£250
Mental Health
Initial Integrative Psychiatry Assessment
Incl. report, intake form & blood test interpretation
£775
Follow-up — 30 mins
£125
Follow-up — 60 mins
£250
Psychology / Psychotherapy
Onward referral available
POA
Reproductive Health
Initial Integrative Reproductive Assessment
Incl. report, intake form & blood test interpretation
£775
Follow-up — 30 mins
£125
Follow-up — 60 mins
£250
Specialist Fertility Referral
Onward referral available where required
POA
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