Kayse Budd, MD Integrative Psychiatry in Carlsbad's La Costa area operates from Costa Del Mar Road, led by a board-certified psychiatrist who graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School in 2002 after completing her undergraduate degree at Duke University. The practice integrates evidence-based herbal medicine, nutraceuticals, Ayurvedic protocols, and psychotherapy with conventional pharmacotherapy, building holistic treatment plans that draw on a modality range developed partly during tenure as the Chopra Center's first integrative psychiatrist at the Omni La Costa Resort — an interdisciplinary approach that parallels the acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine offered at Aviara Acupuncture & Integrative Health in the Aviara area. University of Arizona psychiatry residency training and authorship of the chapter on mindfulness, meditation, and yoga in the Handbook of Wellness Medicine (Cambridge University Press, 2020) ground the integrative framework in peer-reviewed methodology. Teaching affiliations at UCLA, UCSD, and the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine add academic credentials to the clinical practice. Pediatric psychiatry dual training addresses mood disorders in children and anxiety across the lifespan, creating a practice scope broader than adult-only psychiatric models — one that connects with the bodywork and stress-reduction therapies at North County Spa for patients whose treatment plans incorporate somatic relaxation. Highest-complexity cases include nutraceutical-pharmacotherapy combination protocols using 5-MTHF augmentation for MTHFR-variant patients, adaptogenic herb titration alongside SSRI therapy, and Ayurvedic constitution-based dietary prescriptions integrated into psychiatric treatment planning.