Dr. Krishna Taneja is an aspiring Integrative Psychiatrist, a Mind-Body Medicine Expert and the founder of the MESS philosophy.
Her desire to change people’s lives drove her to join medical school. During her time as a medical student in Ukraine she conducted leadership trainings for the Ukrainian government and also led the educational transformation as part of the Ukrainian government’s initiative to join the European Union.
During her practice, she recognized that while doctors were providing excellent healthcare, they weren’t creating healthy individuals. She dedicated herself to learning techniques to deliver quality and affordable healthcare with a more holistic and trauma-informed approach.
She has worked closely with the pioneers of integrative medicine and has helped streamline the integrative psychiatry curriculum for residency and fellowship. She has also served as the Trama Relief and Wellness Program Manager at the Center for Mind-Body Medicine(CMBM), where she managed the development and implementation of CMBM’s comprehensive wellness programs in education and health systems across the U.S and internationally to provide trauma-informed care in trauma afflicted areas. She currently serves as the Secretary for American Psychiatric Association’s Integrative Medicine Caucus
She continues to spread awareness globally for integrative medicine and mental health with the goal of creating trauma informed communities.
Come BE A MESS (Mentally Emotionally Socially and Spiritually Stable) with her!
MESS Philosophy
Trauma is not just an emotional wound but a physical rewiring in the body’s nervous system. It impacts the development of the brain, mind and body awareness. It impacts the way we interact with the world, and the way our very cells function, often wreaking havoc with our hormones, immune system and the functioning of the body’s organs, resulting in disease.
The Disease is simply a symptom of a deeper underlying issue - trauma.
This kind of trauma requires a literal healing and rewiring of the body, mind and intellect which can be achieved through a holistic and individualised approach to achieve being a MESS (Mental Emotional Social and Spiritual Stability). Integrating the fears, memories and beliefs that stem from these traumatic experiences is the key to being a MESS.
My Vision
Working with population-wide trauma in communities across the globe challenged by war, poverty, mass shootings, climate-related disasters, opioid addiction, and genocide helped me realize the extent of work that must be done to improve access to quality mental health care.
My vision, like that of my mentors and predecessors is to heal the unhealed and transform the traumas within each of us and create a trauma-informed and trauma-integrated society. A society in which parents, teachers, physicians, policy-makers and legal personnel are not concerned with fixing behaviors, making diagnoses, suppressing symptoms and judging, but seek instead to understand the sources from which troubling behaviors and diseases spring in the wounded human soul.
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