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Dr. Katie Thomson Aitken ND

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Dr. Katie Thomson Aitken ND

Katie is a licensed naturopathic doctor practicing at Norfolk Wellness Centre in Guelph, ON.

12/29/2025

Nutrition support for anxiety is all about moving towards more nutritious foods, taking it one step at a time, and adding things in rather than restricting.

Follow for more anxiety management information ✨

12/25/2025

Taking a GABA supplement for your anxiety? If it works for you - great. But at this point in time, it's not my top recommendation. The research specifically on generalized anxiety disorders is a bit of a ghost town 👻 and with other options that have built up enough evidence to be recommended by national organizations like CANMAT I typically recommend we start with some other choices.

12/22/2025

What anxiety fact surprised you most?

12/18/2025

Look, I love guidelines, but updating them takes time. A lot has happened in anxiety research over the past 12 years.

Want to stay in the know?

I send out a monthly update to practitioners. Get The Anxiety Beat and keep ahead of the curve for your anxious patients.

Sign Up: https://www.tranquilmindnaturopath.com/anxiety-beat

12/15/2025

Anxiety and Depression can be the kind of frenimies you really wish wouldn't hang out together - and yet they do. All. The. Time.

It's not just you.

Having both anxiety and depression is common and makes it harder to treat. Having a multidisciplinary approach can help. Naturopathic medicine is a great option to walk alongside medications and therapy to support your mental health - especially when you have symptoms that are hard to manage.

12/11/2025

Sometimes it feels annoying to be asked some formal questions or be asked to fill in a survey before your appointment. These are some of the reasons I like formal screening tools - but it's always your choice. Nothing replaces your lived experience. ✨

12/08/2025

Talking about anxiety and exercise can be a tricky balancing act ⚖️ there isn't a one size fits all answer. Here are some of the things I think about when helping a patient with anxiety manage their exercise.

1. For someone who is stuck behind a desk and favourite hobby is reading 🙋‍♀️ any movement (even walking) is going to help.

2. Increasing intensity of exercise does seem to help more in reducing anxiety symptoms. I call this type of exercise "power pushes" and it can really make a difference in reducing anxiety. (Lets get that energy OUT 🏋️‍♀️)

3. The other side of the coin here is that folks with anxiety (especially if they have what I lovingly refer to as "Anxiety+", meaning there is more than generalized anxiety disorder in their health picture) sometimes become anxious about their exercise and worry about it being perfect, enough or hitting their metrics. In these cases, sometimes less really is more. 💕

If you need help navigating exercise and mental health I would love to help you. Book a complimentary consultation to see if working together is the next right step in your health plan.

12/04/2025

Here is what we know:
There is a strong CORRELATION between screen time and anxiety. We know that they "go up together" but we don't know if the increased screen time is causing the increased anxiety or is a symptom of the increased anxiety (or if they are in some fun bi-directional spiral together)

The risk seems higher for adolescents. This is already a sensitive time for mental health. Checking in on how teens feel about their screen use is important.

Not all screen time seems to be the same. Watching a TV show with a friend or having family movie night looks like it has less negative mental health impacts than video games and scrolling social media.

Screen time is a problem when it displaces other health behaviour. Someone reading on their phone rather than reading a paper book is going to be less impactful than watching TV instead of going for a walk or scrolling instead of sleeping.

It does look like cutting back on screen time is a helpful for reducing anxiety. So even if it's not the cause, it may be a helpful behaviour change.

12/01/2025

If you think alcohol lowers anxiety - you aren't alone - but you are wrong. Alcohol actually increases anxiety over the next 24 hours.

11/27/2025

Multiple studies have demonstrated improvement in anxiety scores with a standardized extract of lavender essential oil.

Wondering what options are right for you? Speak to your health care provider 😀

If you need a naturopathic doctor to support your anxiety - I am currently accepting new patients.

11/24/2025

Guidelines for Generalized Anxiety Disorder often suggest this kind of 3 step process:

1. Evaluating if someone needs treatment
2. Education and Informed Consent
3. Medication or Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

In your experience, are these guidelines being followed?

11/20/2025

Not trying to start a fight here but...

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86 Norfolk
Guelph, ON
N1H4J2

Opening Hours

Monday	10am - 6:30pm
Wednesday	12pm - 8pm
Friday	9am - 4pm

Website

http://www.tranquilmindnaturopath.com/

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