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Finding the right mental health support can feel overwhelming, especially when you’re looking for care that aligns with a metabolic or low-carb approach. This directory is designed to make that search easier. Here you’ll find clinicians, coaches, and communities who understand the powerful connection between metabolic health and mental well-being, and who can guide you on your path to feeling better; mind and body.

Keto for Mental Health
Clinician Directory

Explore a directory of clinicians experienced in ketogenic and metabolic therapies for mental health conditions. Connect with providers who understand this emerging approach and can support your care. This list is for information purposes only and does not imply endorsement of any provider.

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Featured Metabolic Mental Health Practices

Discover the practices using metabolic therapies, including ketogenic interventions, as part of comprehensive mental health care. Approaches vary by provider, and individuals are encouraged to consult directly to determine fit.

MH²
Metabolic Mental Health Provider

MH²

Founded by Dr. Chris Palmer, MH² integrates cutting-edge metabolic therapies with evidence-based mental health care to address the root causes of conditions like depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and more. By combining psychotherapy, targeted medications, and lifestyle interventions with advancements in functional medicine and longevity science, the institute delivers a precision, whole-person model designed to restore lasting health, resilience, and metabolic balance.

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Accord
Metabolic Mental Health Provider • Residential Program

Accord

The Accord residential program supports metabolic and mental health through personalized nutrition, fitness and lifestyle plans. Clients receive biomarker testing, daily meals from a full-time chef, regular consultations with a nutritionist, tailored exercise guidance, and practical education to help maintain progress independently.

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Mental Health Keto
Metabolic Mental Health Provider • Virtual Group Program

Mental Health Keto

With extensive experience in behavioral, cognitive-behavioral, and dialectical behavior therapy, Nicole Laurent, LMHC supports clients through emotional and behavioral changes in the healing process of using therapeutic carbohydrate restriction as a mental health intervention.

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Ellenhorn
Metabolic Mental Health Provider

Ellenhorn

Ellenhorn is an innovative alternative to intensive outpatient, residential and hospital-based care. The Ellenhorn team integrates the often-overlooked social elements of recovery and combine psychiatric treatment and curated forms of therapy, like ketogenic therapy, to help clients live purposeful and productive lives.

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Integrative Ketogenic Research & Therapies
Metabolic Mental Health Provider • Virtual Group Program

Integrative Ketogenic Research & Therapies

Learn how to implement ketogenic metabolic therapy safely and effectively through a metabolic mental health program led by Erin Bellamy, PhD.

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Touchpoints180
Metabolic Mental Health Provider

Touchpoints180

Led by internationally recognized psychiatrist Lori Calabrese, MD, Founder and Medical Director of Touchpoints180™, this clinic-based and consultative practice specializes in evidence-forward metabolic psychiatry and comprehensive brain–body health strategies.

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Amae Health
Metabolic Mental Health Provider

Amae Health

Amae Health’s integrated clinics offer a clinical model that combines case management with whole-person care—including metabolic psychiatry and ketogenic therapy—to support long-term recovery from complex mental health conditions. Multidisciplinary care teams, including psychiatrists, therapists, dietitians, peer mentors, and more, collaborate to deliver personalized, comprehensive treatment tailored to each individual.

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Children's Mental Health Resource Center
Metabolic Mental Health Provider • Virtual Group Program

Children's Mental Health Resource Center

The Child Mental Health Research Collaborative (CMHRC) is led by mental health professionals with lived experience, offering guidance and resources to help families, educators, and providers recognize and respond to early-onset mood and bipolar disorders. Through education, advocacy, and support—including guidance on metabolic interventions like ketogenic therapy—CMHRC empowers families to pursue accurate diagnoses and effective treatment plans for lasting stability.

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Healing Depression Project
Metabolic Mental Health Provider

Healing Depression Project

The Healing Depression Project is designed to help individuals overcome depression by integrating medical treatments, lifestyle interventions, and trauma-informed practices to support emotional healing and renewed vitality.

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Metabolic Psychology
Metabolic Mental Health Provider

Metabolic Psychology

Australia’s first psychology practice specializing in metabolic therapies, offering a revolutionary approach to mental health. By understanding the connection between brain metabolism and mental health, they provide personalized care beyond traditional symptom management.

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Metabolic Psychiatry Labs
Metabolic Mental Health Provider

Metabolic Psychiatry Labs

Metabolic Psychiatry Labs is a telehealth clinic founded by Stanford psychiatrist Dr. Shebani Sethi. The clinic integrates psychiatric care with metabolic medicine to support people with depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, OCD, schizophrenia, eating disorders, and related conditions. MPL also works with individuals experiencing treatment-resistant symptoms, metabolic side effects from psychiatric medications, or persistent brain fog, fatigue, and mood instability.

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Advanced Ketogenic Therapies
Metabolic Mental Health Provider

Advanced Ketogenic Therapies

Team of registered dietitians coach working with clients who have been diagnosed with mental health conditions, epilepsy, migraines, and cancer to help reduce symptoms and improve quality of life by implementing and maintaining a therapeutic ketogenic diet.

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Lighthouse Clinic
Metabolic Mental Health Provider

Lighthouse Clinic

The Lighthouse Clinic is a mental health clinic with over thirty years of experience with offices in the heart of Milwaukee. Its metabolic psychiatry program is dedicated to empowering clients to reclaim their voice and autonomy.

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Featured Peer Support

The peer communities listed below offer spaces to connect with others who understand the journey of using ketogenic metabolic therapies for mental health.

Metabolic Collective
COMMUNITIES

Metabolic Collective

Metabolic Collective is a nonprofit building grassroots communities that support people in adopting metabolic therapies, sustaining recovery, and turning personal transformation into collective impact.

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Metabolic Therapies for Mental Disorders
Communities

Metabolic Therapies for Mental Disorders

An online community lead by Lauren Kennedy West for people using metabolic therapies to treat their mental disorders.

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Mia’s Mental Health & The Ketogenic Lifestyle Meetup
Communities

Mia’s Mental Health & The Ketogenic Lifestyle Meetup

Mia Mendez's Meetup groups are for individuals looking to manage and overcome mental health challenges through a ketogenic way of eating.

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Donika’s Keto Lifestyle for Mental Health Virtual Meet-Up
Communities

Donika’s Keto Lifestyle for Mental Health Virtual Meet-Up

Visit this twice-monthly online support group for people interested in using ketogenic diets for mental health.

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Featured Family & Friends Support

The communities listed below offer spaces to connect with others who understand the journey of supporting a loved one using ketogenic metabolic therapies for mental health.

Family & Friends Support Group
Communities

Family & Friends Support Group

Founded by MAMAS (Mom Advocates of Metabolic Awareness & Support), the Family & Friends Support Group is a biweekly, facilitator-led support group for anyone supporting a loved one through mental health or brain-based challenges. It offers a safe, compassionate space to share experiences and explore practical solutions rooted in metabolic health.

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Low-Carb and Keto Lifestyle Clinician Directories

The practitioners listed in these directories offer clinical services related to low-carb, ketogenic, and metabolic health approaches. This list is for informational purposes only and does not imply endorsement of any provider.

Doctor Kiltz
KETO

Doctor Kiltz

Dr. Robert Kiltz promotes a holistic wellness philosophy called the Kiltz Method, which focuses on ancestral healing through a high-fat carnivore lifestyle, intermittent fasting, and "living joyfully" within a supportive global community known as the Mighty Tribe.

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Low-Carb Practicioners
KETO

Low-Carb Practicioners

Low-Carb Practitioners is a comprehensive worldwide directory that connects patients with medical professionals and health coaches who specialize in ketogenic and low-carb metabolic therapies.

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Society of Metabolic Health Practitioners
KETO

Society of Metabolic Health Practitioners

The Society of Metabolic Health Practitioners is a non-profit organization that provides a global directory of accredited healthcare professionals specializing in therapeutic carbohydrate restriction and metabolic health interventions.

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General Questions

What is the connection between metabolic health and mental health?

Numerous studies indicate that those with poor metabolic health, including impairments like insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, pre-diabetes, or type 2 diabetes, have a significantly increased risk of serious mental illness such as bipolar disorder, major depression, or schizophrenia.

The correlation holds in the opposite direction as well; those with serious mental illness have a higher likelihood of having metabolic dysfunction. Clinical experience and emerging evidence suggest that improving metabolism through ketogenic diets, as well as smart approaches to nutrient deficiencies, sleep, exercise, and stress reduction, can create mental health. This is the connection we explore at Metabolic Mind.

THINK+SMART, our free metabolic mental health program, including e-books, worksheets, and a guided email course, helps individuals personalize their wellness journeys using these strategies.

What are metabolic therapies for mental health?

Metabolic therapies for mental health are interventions or treatments that improve systemic metabolic and mitochondrial function to prevent, reduce, or eliminate symptoms of psychiatric illness. Typical therapies include nutritional ketosis, sleep management, movement/exercise, substance use management, meditation, and mindfulness. In addition, medications that improve insulin resistance are sometimes used to address psychiatric symptoms.

What mental illnesses can be helped by metabolic therapies?

Metabolic therapies are being explored for a wide range of mental health conditions, particularly serious mental illnesses. At Metabolic Mind, the primary focus is on conditions such as major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and anorexia nervosa.

Research and clinical perspectives, including those outlined by Dr. Chris Palmer in his book Brain Energy, suggest that if mental illness is linked to metabolic and mitochondrial dysfunction in the brain, then many psychiatric conditions may potentially benefit from metabolic approaches.

According to Dr. Palmer, the scientific literature has identified mitochondrial dysfunction in the following psychiatric conditions:

  • schizophrenia
  • schizoaffective disorder
  • bipolar disorder
  • major depression
  • autism
  • anxiety disorders
  • obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
  • post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
  • attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
  • anorexia nervosa
  • alcohol use disorder (alcoholism)
  • marijuana use disorder
  • opioid use disorder
  • borderline personality disorder
  • Alzheimer’s disease

Additionally, the field of metabolic neurology is expanding, with clinicians such as Dr. Matthew Phillips and researchers such as Steven Cunnane exploring metabolic therapies for neurodegenerative disorders, including dementia, Parkinson’s disease, ALS, and Huntington’s disease. In our expert by experience stories featured in THINK+SMART, you will find individuals across a wide range of psychiatric and neurological conditions who report meaningful improvements with metabolic therapies.

What is ketogenic therapy for mental illness?

Ketogenic therapy for mental illness is a sustained dietary strategy that improves metabolic function by inducing therapeutic nutritional ketosis to prevent, reduce, or eliminate symptoms of psychiatric illness.

There can be many different components of ketogenic therapy, but it often includes selecting a low-carb dietary strategy (what and what not to eat), establishing a target macronutrient ratio (typically 60% calories or more from fat), measuring ketones daily, and restricting timing of eating (when and when not to eat). Ketogenic therapy can also include tracking metabolic and mental health measures (see our sample lab order here), and supplementing with electrolytes, MCT oil, exogenous ketones, carnitine, Vitamin D, B12, and other nutrients.