About Andrea Best, M.D.
Physician, teacher, speaker, psychiatrist, chemist, and nutritionist --Dr Best has been serving communities for over 25 years. Her group workshops and retreats teach prevention and treatment of anxiety, addressing issues of the brain, gut, and adrenals. Dr Best enjoys sharing advanced methods of treating + preventing anxiety, with practical life, changing tools that serve one life-long. She teaches in- person + virtual groups around the world: general medical knowledge, up-to-date advances in medicine + quantum physics healing understanding and ways to integrate Western and Eastern Medicine/Global Medicine in cases involving all body systems. With training in General Medicine, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Neurology, Holistic Medicine, Women's Medicine, Chemistry, and Nutrition, her wellness practice teaches methods from traditional medicine as well as naturopathic options. Options such as nutrition, vitamins/supplements, plant medicine/herbs/oils/teas, sleep hygiene, meditations, fitness/movement plans, writing exercises, relaxation techniques, and cognitive behavior therapy protocol exercises.
Based out of Santa Monica, California, Dr. Best offers workshops to help individuals tap into their own inherent power. Her traditional mixed with holistic approaches are designed to lead one back to Full Wellness, Joy, Peace, Self Healing and Vitality... Less time in doctor offices, More time In Living Well.
Please Note: The workshops and retreats are Integrative/Holistic models of health--private pay/Not billed through any insurance. Dr Best does not provide "Individual care", direct treatment to individuals. in these workshops. Dr Best, as a physician and teacher, is not the treating physician for any participant, and instead shares with the group, holistic principles and practical techniques that each individual may use on their own, or with their own treating provider. One member participant is interviewed, asks questions at the twice-monthly workshops--with the other member participants able to submit questions and receive understanding of how to heal, improve one's health through the measures shared.
Workshops for corporations, entertainment divisions, schools, sports teams, health care providers /administrators are scheduled, contracted separately, based on the needs of the client (s).
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Credentials
Degrees & Professional Experience
Bachelors Degrees/Double Major Chemistry and Nutrition
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC
Doctor of Medicine Degree
University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Chapel Hill, NC
Internship in Medicine/Pediatrics
University of California, Los Angeles UCLA Medical Center
Los Angeles/Westwood, CA
Residency in Adult Psychiatry
UCLA Medical Center and Neuropsychiatric Hospital
Fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
UCLA Medical Center and Neuropsychiatric Hospital
Fellowships/Additional Training in Addiction Medicine, Women’s Health, and Integrative Medicine
UCLA Medical Center, Wadsworth VA, American Naturopathic/International Homeopathic Centers South America, Asia, United States
Santa Monica and Northridge, CA
Office: 818-394-0894
Fax: 818-739-5755
DrBestIntegrative@gmail.com
CEO, Owner and Founder:
-Center for Integrative Medicine, 2005-present; offices previously in Valencia, Studio City and Northridge, CA. Currently in Santa Monica and Northridge, CA
-Andrea C. Best, MD INC
-Founder, Lightguide Productions and Travel Wellness
-Founder Sweetspotting Series. Coming Summer 2022
Teaching Western and Eastern Medicine:
medical students, residents, nurse practitioners
UCLA Medical Center, Mindpath Health.
Group workshops, corporate
at Headquarters of Google, Microsoft
Virtual, Lockheed Martin
NAMI
Various colleges, school districts nationally
Consultant:
-Child and Family Guidance Center
-Mindpath Health, Inc.
-Healme.com, Kaiser Permanente and various health insurers, corporations, hospitals
Collaborations, Workshops ongoing:
Royal Dynastics Organic Hemp Farm, NJ
American Holistic Health Association
National Medical Association
SPEAK, Board of Directors
Association of Black Women Physicians
Soulular Sisters Productions
American Academic Excellence Scholar
Society of Physical and Mathematical Scientists Outstanding Service Award in Teaching
National Science Foundation Academics and Teaching Award
Sarah Kenan Leadership Award
Board of Governors Medical Scholar
American Psychiatric Association Research and Teaching Fellow
American Medical Association Fellow
American Medical Women’s Association Fellow
US Psychiatric Mental Health Congress Fellow
American Academy of Addiction Medicine Fellow
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellow
