Sleep Specialist and Disorder Doctor in San Francisco Via Telehealth
As a naturopathic sleep disorder doctor in San Francisco, California, Dr. Victoria Chan can help you get better rest and live a happier and healthier life. Dr. Chan is a highly educated and skilled holistic practitioner who draws from both traditional medicine and naturalistic approaches to put together a holistic treatment plan customized to your life and specific experiences. Dr. Chan offers telehealth visits, so anyone from anywhere can meet with her at a time and place of their choosing.
Why Choose Dr. Victoria Chan as Your Sleep Specialist?
Dr. Victoria Chan is highly educated, focused, and compassionate. She creates a personalized health plan for each patient, and her treatment approach includes looking at each patient’s specific history and experiences in order to discover what may be causing issues in the patient’s life. Rather than simply masking symptoms, she will help identify the root cause of your sleep disorder. To do this, she will listen carefully to your specific problems, draw on her experiences, knowledge, and education, and work with you to help you find relief.
Dr. Chan earned a Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine degree from Bastyr University and Bachelor’s degrees in Psychology and Human Resources from The University of Hong Kong. She is licensed as a Naturopathic Doctor (ND) in California, and she’s a Board Member of the Psychiatric Association of Naturopathic Physicians.
In addition to these credentials, she has had personal experiences with overcoming various health issues and finding her own path to health and wellness through Naturopathic Medicine. Before she became familiar with holistic methods and became a doctor herself, she consulted over a dozen doctors around the world, ultimately coming up empty handed.
Despite these difficulties, she was able to find relief from her symptoms and greater balance in her life through a naturopathic approach. In fact, her experiences with these challenges and the help she received from Naturopathic Medicine led her to become an ND herself.
Receive Treatment From a San-Francisco Based Sleep Disorder Specialist
What is Working With Dr. Chan Like?
In the early stages of a patient relationship, Dr. Chan will look for any relevant issues that you may have through both the medical and holistic lenses. She will discuss your history, symptoms, lifestyle, and any other factors that may be relevant to your situation. As needed, she can recommend lab work or any medical tests that may be called for. She will discuss with you in detail any treatments, testing, dietary changes, or nutritional supplements that may be helpful, and she will always consider your thoughts and opinions while creating a plan for you. If you live outside of California, where Dr. Chan is, her telehealth education process will be similar. Schedule your Discovery Call with Dr. Chan to learn more details.
Get a Customized Treatment Plan To Help You Sleep Better
Dr. Chan will create a plan for you to move towards relief from any sleep-related or other specific issues you may be having as well as toward general wellness. This plan may involve an exercise plan, prescribing medications, scheduling a sleep study, or making dietary alterations or changes to your sleeping schedule. If you are struggling with insomnia, for example, she may recommend some herbal supplements, behavioral modifications, or a sleep restriction schedule.
Achieving Results and Refining the Plan
After taking initial steps to move forward toward your goals, you would continue to collaborate with Dr. Victoria to optimize the healing process. You will discuss maintaining momentum, assessing your progress and the various treatment options you’ve chosen together, and optimizing your treatment plan.
Finally, Dr. Chan can help address other specific areas of discomfort. These may include restless leg syndrome, insomnia, or sleep apnea. She will also help you to come up with strategies for staying on the path to holistic wellness.
Naturopathic Professionals Are Uniquely Qualified to Help Resolve Sleep Disorders
What is Considered a Sleep Disorder?
A sleep disorder involves issues with things like the quality, duration, amount, or timing of a person’s sleep. They can sometimes occur in conjunction with mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, or panic attacks. They can be caused by various factors like sleeping environment, diet, overuse of caffeine, or hormone imbalances. Sleep disorders can cause various mental and emotional problems, so it’s important to diagnose and treat them when present.
Examples of sleep disorders include insomnia, sleep apnea, restless leg syndrome, narcolepsy, circadian rhythm disorders, and parasomnias. Insomnia, or having trouble falling asleep at night, is one of the most common. Sleep apnea is another very common sleep disorder that involves pauses in breathing during sleep. Restless leg syndrome (RLS) involves an urge to move your legs around and is often caused by uncomfortable feelings in the legs. RLS is sometimes referred to as Willis-Ekbom disease and can occur in combination with periodic limb movement disorder (PLMD). Conditions such as these can be uniquely addressed by a naturopathic sleep doctor.
Why Consult a ND Instead of a MD?
A Naturopathic Doctor (ND) will take a holistic approach to wellness, rather than just alleviating your symptoms with pharmaceuticals or short term methods (although NDs are licensed to prescribe pharmaceuticals when appropriate and necessary). NDs consider important factors such as the root causes of the problems at hand, a patient’s life as a whole, and preventative care. Naturopathic Doctors are trained in the same medical sciences as MDs so they are well-equipped to give medical advice like a traditional doctor, but they can also draw from deep expertise in exercise, diet, meditation practices, behavior modifications, and herbs and nutritional supplements.
Schedule Your Telemedicine Consultation with San Francisco’s Sleep Disorder Doctor
Skip the stress of driving to the doctor’s office and talk with Dr. Victoria Chan from the comfort of your home via telehealth video conferencing. Dr Chan conducts telehealth visits to help people from anywhere. . Schedule your Discovery Call with Dr. Chan today and start on your path to wellness.
