Esophageal Health

Integrative Digestive Health

When you have an esophageal disorder, it can impact your overall health and wellbeing.

A growing body of evidence suggests mind-body therapies such as relaxation and mindfulness may decrease symptoms and improve quality of life for specific upper gastrointestinal disorders and can add benefit to your treatment plan.

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The Walter and Shirley Wang Center for Integrative Digestive Health offers a collaborative team approach where we emphasize personalized care in addressing your health needs through education on prevention, health promotion and empowerment for sustained healthy lifestyle choices.

Our team includes:

  • Integrative digestive health practitioner
  • GI psychologists
  • GI dietitians

Wellness approaches can include:

  • Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)
  • Biofeedback training
  • Coping support
  • Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
  • Health coaching
  • Hypnosis (medical)
  • Mindfulness-based interventions
  • Nutrition
  • Relaxation therapies
  • Self-compassion

Meet with our integrative digestive health practitioner to transform your health by learning and practicing techniques to improve your symptoms, promote sleep, fitness, stress management and optimize resilience and overall well-being.

We also offer guidance in connecting you to our UCLA integrative health partners UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center and the UCLA Center for East-West Medicine.