Leva Psychiatry

09/27/2025

✨ Sometimes you just need clarity.
That’s why we offer Clarity Consults: a fresh, thoughtful review of your medications and treatment options, so you can feel confident about your next step.

🔹 Clear summary
🔹 Safer choices
🔹 Continued support

💡 Ask your provider about a referral today.

09/18/2025

You do not have to be a clinician to attend this! The THIRD annual Mental Health Hero ball.... by NAMI Coastal Virginia.

This event started as a way to bring people together after Covid- with such disconnection int he community where so many receptionists, staff, techs, therapists, providers, prescribers, holistic healers were working in the trenches.

It was a massive success in raising funds AND bringing people together.
This year--- is the third time everyone is coming together again to honor each other and be in community.

Join the movement to highlight ALL the individuals who bring awareness and save lives----- including yourself.

Behind every mask is a hero🎭✨

On October 18th, we’ll gather to celebrate the mental health heroes in disguise—the care workers, advocates, and community champions who bring hope and healing every day.

Tickets and sponsorships fuel NAMI Coastal Virginia’s free programs and support💚

Tickets: $100 | Sponsorships available now!
Visit namicoastalvirginia.org/mentalhealthheroball

08/27/2025

About 3 years ago, we started De-Prescribing because SO MANY people needed their medication lists reviewed.

From the primary care doc we met with last week-
"I see so many clients coming from psychiatry that are on SO many meds that are causing side effects, just aren't working, or were written and increased years ago and never re-evaluated. Its affecting my patients care".

What is De-Prescribing?

Deprescribing is the planned and supervised process of reducing or stopping medications. At Leva Psychiatry, we determine if medications need to stay or go.

Sometimes meds cause extreme side effects.
Sometimes meds are not beneficial anymore.
Sometimes meds were prescribed years ago and never re-evaluated to see if they were necessary.
Sometimes there are newer medications

WE OPTIMIZE quality of care by ensuring each medication is absolutely necessary.

08/26/2025

At Leva Psychiatry, we take a careful, balanced approach to the new GLP-1 medications (such as Ozempic, Wegovy, and Zepbound). While these medicines are very popular right now, we’ve seen important concerns:

Risks with rapid or extreme weight loss: loss of lean muscle mass and even potential cognitive changes if not supported from a nutritional perspective properly. We have seen the lack of monitoring of weight loss and lean muscle mass loss.

Food is medicine: we emphasize that nourishing the brain and body matters more than focusing on weight or numbers on the scale.

Whole-health perspective: we are especially mindful of metabolic health, since some psychiatric medications (like antipsychotics) can affect weight, blood sugar, and cholesterol.

💡 Our goal is to support metabolic wellness, brain health, and sustainable habits rather than chasing quick fixes.

We are offering metabolic management for those in need of metabolic support with the right type of nutrition support.

08/12/2025

Early intervention and testing for ADHD is crucial to knowing what to do with a child's strengths! With our testing at Leva, every family receives:

A clear, jargon-free diagnostic report
An individualized summary of your child’s strengths and challenges
Actionable, evidence-based recommendations for school, home, and clinical care
Access to curated resources, books, websites, and tools to support ongoing progress. 🌳Make the decision to explore strengths and learn your unique brain 🧠 and its inner workings.

08/06/2025

Dont worry dear, ive got you now.

07/18/2025

✨ Evening appointments now available Monday through Thursday with Sonja McFadden, PMHNP 🌙
For the ones juggling full days, caregiving, or careers — healing doesn’t have to wait.
Make space for you after hours.

📍Leva Psychiatry
🗓️ Limited evening spots — message us to schedule.

07/14/2025

✨ Now Enrolling: The Final Inner Child Healing Group Series of 2025 ✨

For 2025, we have been running groups and building community!

This 5-week small group experience is for anyone ready to gently reconnect with the parts of themselves that went through heavy stuff—and are still waiting to be held with love.

This isn’t just about healing the past.
It’s about learning how to feel again, SAFELY.
(Without shutting down. Without stuffing it. Without spiraling into panic.)

Emotions don't live in the mind, they live in the BODY.
And until we access and express them there, we stay stuck.

That’s why we use:
🌀 Hypno-Breathwork
🎨 Expressive Arts
🧩 Parts Work
💥 Emotional Release
🧘‍♀️ Somatic Integration + Nervous System Repair

To move you from: "I know why I do this..."
to
"I finally feel different."

This August marks our fifth and final group of the year.
If your body is craving co-regulation, connection, and a real shift—you’re not alone.
We’re building something brave, safe, and powerful. And we’d love to have you.

👉 Message us with any questions!

07/08/2025

You know what actually made a difference for me?
I finally talked about it.
I opened up to my husband about what was going on in my head.
Just saying, “Hey, I think something’s off—I can’t stop thinking,” felt huge.
The wild thing?
I didn’t even realize it was anxiety or worry.
I just thought I was someone who overthinks everything.
But when your brain is constantly in “what if” mode or replaying old moments—you’re not really here.
You’re not present. You’re not at ease.
Things didn’t start to shift for me until I learned how to reconnect with my body.
Now, feeling grounded feels like peace.
It feels like being calm in my own skin.
So if your mind’s been going nonstop, and you’re exhausted from it…
Maybe this is your sign to pause and check in with yourself.
And if you ever want to talk—I’m here. 💛

07/06/2025

You know what? People talk about "the work" and about "self love". But they wait to face conflict ( or avoid it completely). They also stay in toxic relationships and work places.or don't say no when needed. Or ignore the body and its messages. Self love is action- of loving ourselves so our bodies sense we care about all its messages. We all have the ability to love ourselves even more.