Nobody taught your doctor how to take you off it.
Prescribing is a semester of pharmacology. De-prescribing isn't taught at all. Most people end up holding a handful of psychiatric medications, unsure which ones still help, which ones are causing the side effects, and no one trained to help them find out.
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Medical training covers how to start a medication. Almost none covers how to stop.
Most prescribers are taught to identify symptoms and match them to a drug. What they aren't taught is what happens biochemically when a nervous system has adapted around a medication for years — or what it takes to unwind that adaptation without the body rebounding into worse symptoms than it started with. So tapers get rushed, or never attempted, and medications accumulate instead of resolving.
This program exists for the people that leaves behind: on multiple psychiatric medications, dealing with side effects nobody is actively managing, and with no clear, medically-informed path toward taking less.
“Coming off medication isn’t a dosage problem. It’s a nervous system problem.”
Why the pace of the taper matters more than the medication itself
Four things happen before a single dose changes.
This isn't a standard taper schedule applied to everyone. It's built from your own biochemistry, supported chemically while it recalibrates, and only ever moved forward when your life can hold the change.
01 — TEST
Neurotransmitter urine testing
Before we plan anything, we measure. Urine neurotransmitter testing gives us a real picture of your serotonin, dopamine, norepinephrine, and adrenal output — not a guess based on symptoms alone.
02 — SUPPORT
Targeted oral supplementation
Based on what testing shows, we use oral supplements that support serotonin, dopamine, norepinephrine, and adrenal function — built to ease the biochemical side effects that show up as medications are reduced.
An exquisitely slow taper
Every reduction is small enough for your body to genuinely adapt before the next one. Slow is the method, not a compromise — it's what lets the nervous system re-regulate instead of just react.
04 — GROUND
Change only when life is stable
A medication change is only made when your environment is genuinely nurturing and stable. If life is in upheaval, we hold steady — we never taper into instability.
Readiness isn't optional. It's the foundation.
Weaning only begins once your mental health is demonstrably improving. That can look like any of the following:
1. Established prior mental health recovery
You already have a track record of stability and improving mental health going into this program.
2. Working through TRTP
Trauma resolution work through TRTP is actively supporting your emotional recovery.
3. Engaged in the Regulated Life program
You're building nervous system regulation through the Regulated Life program alongside this work.
Support for both the body and the emotional system behind it.
De-prescribing safely takes more than a lab panel. It takes someone who can hold both sides of what's happening — the physical recalibration of neurotransmitters and adrenal output, and the emotional and nervous-system experience of coming off medications that have been part of your stability for years. That dual support, physical and emotional, is what shapes every part of how this program is run.
What the program actually looks like.
LENGTH
6 months, start to finish
Long enough for testing, targeted support, and a genuinely slow taper to unfold in real biochemical time — not rushed to fit a shorter window.
LOCATION
Fully remote
Every session, every check-in, happens from wherever you are. Testing kits are completed at home and sent for lab analysis.
SESSIONS
Monthly, or more often as needed
We meet at least once a month to review testing, adjust support, and decide together whether the next step is ready to happen — with more frequent check-ins whenever your situation calls for it.
Let's find out what your biochemistry is actually doing.
A first conversation costs you nothing but the time it takes. We'll talk through your current medications, what testing would show, and whether this pace and process is the right fit for where you are right now.
This program supports nervous system recovery alongside your existing psychiatric care and works in coordination with your prescribing physician — it does not replace that relationship, and no medication is ever changed without your prescriber's involvement. Supplement and testing recommendations are educational and not a substitute for individualized medical advice. If you are in crisis or considering self-harm, please contact your local emergency services or a crisis line right away.