Integrative Medicine

Richard Aryeh Nanas

Richard Aryeh Nanas is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a specialty in Mindfulness Based Psychotherapy and Stress Reduction.  Aryeh has spent his entire adult career working in the mental health field and is thrilled to be able to exercise his passion for helping others with the empirically validated mindfulness based approaches to anxiety, depression and stress.  The approach is gentle, compassionate and rigorous. Mindfulness meditation rests at the center of the approach and works to help the client gain an awareness that transforms emotional pain and suffering.

In addition to working at the Santa Cruz Integrative Medicine Center, Aryeh speaks to groups on Mindfulness appraches to stress reduction and trains clinical staff at a variety of agencies.  Aryeh is  delighted to be associated with the Center that clearly represents the future of medicine. Santa Cruz is very fortunate to have an Integrative Medicine Center.  It has been a dream come true for so many of us.