AIM: Advaita Integrated Medicine

AIM: Advaita Integrated Medicine Integrated psychiatric support, medication management, & counseling for individuals with mental health & substance use disorders in the Raleigh / Durham / Chapel Hill area.

At Advaita Integrated Medicine, we leverage an interdisciplinary team to work collaboratively with our patients to help them achieve their goals. We take a values-based approach to our service and we pride ourselves on clinical sophistication, care coordination, integrated care, all in the pursuit of human flourishing.

We offer psychiatric support, medication management, and counseling for individuals with mental health and substance use disorders. We believe that everyone has the ability to flourish. We're here to provide you the expert, holistic support you need.

Our services include:
- Psychiatry
- Medication Management
- Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT)
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)
- Therapy and Counseling
- Intensive Outpatient Programming (IOP) for Substance Use Disorder and Addiction
- Outpatient Therapy Groups
- Integrative Wellness Coaching
and more!

Main Office Phone: 919-893-4465
Main Office Fax: 919-689-5350

Most people who come to us for TMS have already tried multiple medications. Many have been struggling for years. What se...
04/13/2026

Most people who come to us for TMS have already tried multiple medications. Many have been struggling for years. What sets our program apart is not just the technology — it is everything around it. Psychiatry and therapy running alongside TMS, active oversight throughout the entire treatment course, and weekly progress tracking using a validated clinical scale. Depression gets targeted from every direction at once.

The result: a 78% remission rate.

We use BrainsWay Deep TMS for deeper, more targeted stimulation — but the technology is only part of it. Your treating psychiatrist remains actively involved every week, tracking your progress, adjusting the approach as needed, and working with you on the lifestyle factors that directly affect how well TMS works — sleep, exercise, nutrition, and stress. Most programs do not do that. We think it is the difference.

We are in-network with most major insurance providers, including Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, Aetna, United/Optum, and TRICARE. For anyone who has tried everything else and still hasn't found relief — there may be a path forward that hasn't been explored yet.

Ready to get started with TMS? Visit the link in our bio to learn more or schedule a consultation --> https://aimwellbeing.com/get-started/

04/10/2026

“To never be anxious is a dead person’s goal.”

Emotions are fickle and as inevitable as the tide.

They arise. They retreat. Then they come back again.

If you find yourself in a constant state of peace, congratulations—you’re either in total enlightenment or you’re dead.

Most people spend a lot of energy trying to get rid of anxiety.

It usually doesn’t work.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) takes a different approach.

Instead of fighting discomfort, the focus is on noticing it, allowing it, and choosing how to respond.

When you stop trying to swim against the tide, the experience changes.

And so does the amount of suffering that comes with it.

We hear this a lot in treatment:“They’re resistant.”ACT shifts how we approach that.Instead of focusing on changing the ...
04/09/2026

We hear this a lot in treatment:

“They’re resistant.”

ACT shifts how we approach that.

Instead of focusing on changing the content of thoughts, the focus moves to understanding the process of thinking and what those thoughts are doing.
That shift tends to open up different options in treatment.

It’s one of the reasons we use ACT across our programs at AIM.

04/08/2026

ACT is widely used across mental health treatment because it targets a core process: how individuals relate to their internal experience.

Rather than focusing on eliminating thoughts or emotions, ACT focuses on increasing psychological flexibility—the ability to experience those internal states without being controlled by them.

This has broad clinical application across anxiety, depression, and substance use, and reflects a shift in how treatment is approached.

At AIM, ACT is integrated throughout our services because it offers a structured, evidence-based framework that patients can apply directly in their day-to-day lives.

Your thoughts aren't the problem. The war you're waging against them is. We don't get to choose which thoughts show up. ...
04/06/2026

Your thoughts aren't the problem. The war you're waging against them is.

We don't get to choose which thoughts show up. But we do get to choose what we do with them.

Swipe through to see why that distinction can help you suffer less. 👉

04/03/2026

Depression can be unrelenting, but so are we. Learn more about how we do TMS differently by visiting aimwellbeing.com

04/01/2026

Why do we track anxiety and depression at the same time?

Because they rarely show up in isolation.

We use standardized measures, the GAD-7 for anxiety and the PHQ-9 for depression, and track both over time. Those scores aren’t just collected, they’re used. Our therapists and medication providers work together to adjust care based on what’s changing week to week.

In our programs, patients entering at higher levels of severity showed an average 10.5 point combined reduction across both measures, with 35% leaving in a lower, more manageable range on both.

You can’t improve what you don’t measure. We’ve always believed data should drive how we care for people — because we do...
03/30/2026

You can’t improve what you don’t measure.
 
We’ve always believed data should drive how we care for people — because we don’t want to waste anyone’s time on care that isn’t working. Collecting that data isn’t easy, and we’re nowhere near where we want to be. But we keep building.
 
Over the past 30 months, Advaita Health has built a longitudinal outcomes measurement system across our virtual and in-person services through and — tracking anxiety, depression, and substance use across 3,100+ patients and 31,474 total assessments.
 
This week we’re sharing what we found — not to claim perfection, but because accountability is how we get better.
 
We’re proud of what the data shows. We’re equally proud of the infrastructure we built to collect and measure it.
 
Stay with us this week

03/27/2026

Antidepressants and TMS are not doing the same thing differently. They work on entirely different dimensions of depression.

Antidepressants increase the availability of neurotransmitters like serotonin and dopamine throughout the body. For a significant portion of people with depression, that isn't the core problem. The prefrontal cortex, the region of the brain responsible for mood regulation, is underactive. It isn't firing the way it should. Increasing neurochemical availability to a circuit that's already struggling to function has limited impact. That's why some people can take every medication correctly and still not get meaningfully better.

TMS targets that region directly. It uses magnetic pulses to stimulate the underactive circuitry at the source rather than adjusting the system as a whole.

Dr. R. Dewayne Book, Chief Medical Officer of Advaita Integrated Medicine, explains what TMS actually does and why it works when medication hasn't.

To learn more about AIM's approach to treatment-resistant depression, click the link below!

https://aimwellbeing.com/why-antidepressant-stop-working/

Roughly 1 in 3 people with major depression won't respond adequately to antidepressants. With each medication that fails...
03/25/2026

Roughly 1 in 3 people with major depression won't respond adequately to antidepressants. With each medication that fails, the likelihood the next one works gets smaller.

Antidepressants adjust brain chemistry systemically. They increase the availability of neurotransmitters like serotonin and dopamine. For a significant portion of people with depression, the underlying issue isn't neurochemistry. It's circuitry. The prefrontal cortex isn't firing the way it should, and medication doesn't address that directly. TMS does. It targets that region and stimulates the neural circuitry linked to depression at the source.

The FDA approved TMS after a single failed antidepressant trial. Most patients don't hear about it until they've been through five or six medications.

Dr. R. Dewayne Book, MD | Chief Medical Officer of Advaita Integrated Medicine, explains when TMS should be considered and why earlier in the process is better.

To learn more about AIM's approach to treatment-resistant depression, click the link below 🔗

https://aimwellbeing.com/why-antidepressant-stop-working/

03/24/2026

If antidepressants haven't worked, there's a reason.

Antidepressants adjust brain chemistry systemically — meaning the medication travels through the entire body before reaching the area where depression actually lives. TMS works differently. It targets that region directly, stimulating the brain circuitry linked to depression at the source rather than working around it.

Dr. R. Dewayne Book, Chief Medical Officer of Advaita Health, breaks down the differences between antidepressants and TMS.

If you'd like to know more about Advaita Integrated Medicine's comprehensive approach to treating depression, click the link in the comments.

https://aimwellbeing.com/get-started/

Address

6112 Street Giles St
Raleigh, NC
27612

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 6pm
Tuesday 8am - 6pm
Wednesday 8am - 6pm
Thursday 8am - 6pm
Friday 8am - 6pm

Telephone

+19198934465

Website

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