WHAT IS SENSEMED

A clinic for people who want to improve their health, using scientific evidence and guided exploration of how chronic stress, life experiences and the environment interact with their body function and sensations

Our Mission

To uncover the causes of chronic disease, by exploring how chronic stress, environmental exposures and our body's learned responses influence our thoughts, emotions, body sensations and overall health.

Our Philosophy

1. Chronic stress and trauma influences the way our bodies function at many levels – from within our body cells, to how we react to environmental triggers and sensations in our body.

2. These factors – that are not commonly talked about in a doctor's office visit – are fundamental to understanding how our bodies function and what treatments will work to improve our health. Therefore, a more complete medical visit must include questions to help explore how these factors might affect the person's health.

3. A 'quick fix' is often not possible. Exploration of the causes of suboptimal health must happen in a partnership between the patient and their doctor, and can take time to identify.

4. Doctors can guide their patients about what to look for in their daily lives and how to test themselves to figure out what factors might be making them feel unwell.

Ways To Interact With SenseMed

1. High Quality Personalized Medical Education

Personalized Medical Education

Weekly Education Sessions

Tailored education on anti-inflammatory living, mitochondrial health, connection to self and environment as well as dysfunctional breathing as powerful ways to improve your health.

Contemplative Practice

We will meet weekly for brief sessions of guided meditation to foster this fundamental tool for wellbeing.

Resources for Health Improvement

You will learn about resources you can access for improving your own health, including nutrition resetting, internal family systems, acceptance and commitment therapy, somatic breathwork, and biomagnetism – to name just a few.

Priority Retreat Entry

SenseMed hosts “Untangle” retreats in various locations around the world where you will have the space and support to unlearn patterns that are no longer useful for your health, and become inspired to fundamentally reset your life.

2. Medical Consultation

Brief Consultation
The SenseMed Program

Brief Consulation

The brief consulation includes a brief introductory call, your uploading of your medical records for my review, followed by a one hour consultation to review your medical history and provide insights on what I believe the possible root causes may be and any additional testing your primary doctor might consider ordering. You can start here and move to the full program if you would like SenseMed to guide the additional diagnostic workup. Please note, this is only available to clients in NY or MA at the time of the consultation.

The SenseMed Program

The full SenseMed program recognizes that healing is a process that needs time for effect and that you can be empowered to discover root causes of your symptoms and what you can do about it gradually.

We start with a brief introductory call so we can understand yoru expectations and needs, and most significant symptoms. You then can upload your prior medical testing results and complete several detailed surveys so that I can review in detail before our first meeting.

We meet for 60-90 minutes for the first clinic meeting after which we come up with a plan for what you can test at home and what to look out for in terms of triggers of symptoms. We may order additional testing and supplements if this fits your budget.

We will be in contact on at least a weekly basis to see how things are progressing and will meet again at least one more time for a final 60-90 minute visit.

What you will get

at least two 60-90 minute telehealth clinic visits with me
regular contemplative practice and breathwork sessions guided by me
briefly weekly check-ins
my review of the medical records you upload
ordering additional tests if within your budget – for those covered by insurance you will have to submit for reimbursement
access to targeted educational content related to nutrition, mental health, contemplative practice and breathing techniques
a final report with differential diagnosis and treatment recommendations that you can share with your other practitioners at the conclusion of the program
priority entry into the in-person retreats offered by SenseMed.

3. Somatic Breathwork

Somatic Breathwork

Somatic Breathwork

Dr. Hajizadeh is a certified somatic breathwork coach (SomatIQ).

Healing requires releasing not just of bodily toxins, but also of emotions that are ‘stored within the body’. These are known as embodied emotions and experiences. Bessel Van der Kolk’s book The Body Keeps the Score summarizes the science on how what happens to you in life can be stored in your body – even at the sub-cellular level. Somatic Breathwork is a guided method of diaphragmatic breathing that toggles between parasymphathetic and sympathetic predominant nervous system stimulation.

Benefits may include:

retraining of dysfunctional breathing patterns
diaphragmatic muscle strengthening
connection to breath and awareness of breath
building resilience to nervous system changes (by leveraging the power of your own breathing patterns)
building resilience to changes in blood carbon dioxide content
abdominal lymphatic movement (through deep breaths)
release of emotions not readily accessible to the thinking mind
deep relaxation

Sessions are 90 minutes at the start which includes a 30 minute didactic and Q+A.

4. In-Person Wellness Retreats

Untangle

Wellness Retreats

SenseMed hosts retreats throughout the year that blend in-person health education, art therapy, contemplative practice (guided meditation), and somatic breathwork within beautiful nature settings to reset and learn practical tools for improving your wellbeing.

What you get

Medical Review

Review of your existing medical records and assistance obtaining these to upload into a central file for our review and for your future use.

Personalized Treatments

A personalized list of treatments that includes more than prescribed medication, and integrates self- and group-guided examination of the effects of chronic stress and our environments on our health.

Reinforced Commitment

A reinforced commitment to ‘do no harm’ which starts with ensuring that recommendations are based in evidence and scientific rationale as well as common sense.

Discovery tools

Practical discovery tools that you can use to understand possible causes of health related issues.

Citizen Scientist

If interested (and only if you choose to be a part of), the ability to contribute to our scientific discovery of causes of poor health as a ‘Citizen Scientist.’ This means that you can choose to contribute your ideas, personal experiences with health difficulties, what works and does not work for you, and your laboratory and other data so that we can discover solutions that might work for others, together.

Testimonial:

Dr Hajizadeh and Emily helped me through long COVID when none of my other doctors had either practical advice or medical guidance to offer. She offered straightforward but effective approaches, combined with a deep investigation of how my emotions and psychological state were impacting my healing.

Her practice allowed me the space to understand what was happening to me both physically and emotionally, and by looking at the wholeness of my experience, I was able to regulate and adjust to what I needed to feel better. By eliminating the artificial divide between our physical and psychological health, I was able to regain my health and end up with a deeper understanding of the role of trauma, anxiety and fear in physical illness.

Working with Dr. Hajizadeh has re-oriented my perspective on both illness and health, and helped me recover and move forward with a much more informed, holistic perspective. Jessica, Brooklyn NY

How SenseMed Works

We offer a new method of medical inquiry, where the doctor is a guide to help the patient identify the causes of poor health, that take into account chronic stress, environmental triggers, life experiences, as well as the way a person's internal organs are working which is measured by conventional medical testing (blood work, radiology tests, pulmonary function tests, cardiac tests, etc.)

Schedule a visit

Our clinic staff will send you an application form for entry into our clinic. Please note that due to the very small size of our clinic we may not be able to accommodate every application at this time.

Working to Help You Breathe Better

Costs and Why We Don’t Take Insurance (Yet)

SenseMed was always intended to be a clinic serving people who have trouble breathing and fatigue regardless of socioeconomic background. Therefore, we started off with the intention of accepting insurance, including Medicaid and Medicare. Unfortunately, after hours of reviewing reimbursement options we discovered that there...