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A clinic for people who want to breathe better, using scientific evidence and guided exploration of how chronic stress, life experiences and the environment interact with your body function and sensation of breathing.

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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.

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.)

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.

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.

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COSTS AND WHY WE DON’T TAKE INSURANCE

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...