Even Keel Health
Find Your Balance and Optimize Your Health and Wellbeing
Specializing in Integrative and Lifestyle Medicine in the diagnosis and management of ADHD.
Our Aim is to help people with ADHD of all ages overcome their challenges, find their balance,
and THRIVE in all areas of LIFE!
Let's create a life that is full of joy by working together to restore and optimize your overall health and well-being.
Welcome to Even Keel Health! I am Scott Keel, MD, MPH, an expert in the field of ADHD and I want to help you and your family find the right balance in life and maximize your potential. Our expertise focuses on the proper diagnosis and management of ADHD and its associated challenges in executive function, self-regulation, and emotional control.
We use a whole-health, integrative, and lifestyle medicine approach to help those with ADHD overcome their challenges. We also treat and reverse other mental health challenges often associated with ADHD, such as mood disorders, depression, anxiety, OCD, addictions, sleep disturbances, educational problems, life change adjustments, personal conflict, trauma, adverse childhood experiences, post-traumatic stress, and other psychological disorders.
It's not just about getting the diagnosis right, but helping those diagnosed with ADHD and/or other mental health challenges learn to thrive and become their best selves.
That means we not only focus on the diagnosis and treatment of your condition(s), but also use the pillars of whole health. We evaluate and incorporate assessments and treatment plans that address sleep, movement, nutrition, spirituality/mindfulness, environment, social connections, and self-care.
We always take a patient- and family-centered approach to care to treat the whole person.
The vast majority of ADHD cases have a genetic link. Working with the whole family in understanding ADHD is vital. In the case of children, some of the best outcomes can be seen when one or both parents are effectively managing their own ADHD.
Its all about finding your balance and living life on an Even Keel.
I am a board-certified physician who trained in pediatrics at Virginia Tech and then in preventive medicine at the University of Kentucky, where I also served as chief resident. While at UK, I also obtained my Master's in Public Health with a concentration in environmental health. I completed my certification in integrative medicine with the University of Arizona's Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine. I am an ambassador for the American College of Preventive Medicine, a member of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, the Virginia Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and I sit on the Virginia Mental Health Access Program (VMAP) education committee. I am also a member of CHADD (Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder), the American Society of Addiction Medicine, and a passionate advocate for inclusion and diversity. I am a published author and researcher in the field, a public speaker, and a recipient of regional, national, and international awards.
Why have I decided to dedicate my career and make it my life's purpose to help those with ADHD and other mental health challenges? Simply put, because of lived experience. I know firsthand the struggles that many people and their families go through.
In overcoming my own challenges, I have cultivated a deep passion for working with children, adolescents, and adults (and their families) so they, too, can overcome challenges, thrive, and find their balance in life. That's living life on an even keel.
Scott Keel, MD, MPH
"Keeping it Real with Dr. Keel"
Attributes: A Medical Doctor, Economist, Epidemiologist, Innovator, and Population Health Expert with a deep understanding of social determinants and environmental health. A proven leader with a strong passion for collaboration, policy development, program design and implementation, care delivery, systems transformation and guided by values that align with whole health, patient centered clinical care. Able to provide a predictively positive experience at every encounter.
At Even Keel, we aim to create a new, transformational model of care delivery—a patient-centered and employee-owned practice with prevention, longevity, and everyday joy at its core. You are the CEO of your own health, and we are here to help you and your family achieve your goals and find your balance.
Want More Than a Diagnosis?
A Team Approach to Living a Happier, Healthier, More Fulfilling Life
Even Keel Health is a medical practice and therapeutic counseling center that specializes in the diagnosis and management of ADHD. Our philosophy is simple: identifying a person’s individual challenges is only the first stage of treatment. To help our patients and their families live happier and healthier lives, we go beyond the traditional treatment model to provide a comprehensive treatment team approach, helping patients recognize and utilize their strengths in all five of life’s major performance areas: physical, mental, emotional, educational, and social.
At Even Keel Health, our patients receive the insight, advocacy, and tools they need to understand their challenges and live healthier, happier, and more productive lives.
Yes, We Treat Adults, Too.
Every patient gets their Doctors personal phone number! That is our dedication to you! Who does that any more? We do!
We treat more than just ADHD, but a wide variety of issues for all age groups, including:
ADHD
Addiction
Anxiety
Depression
Educational Problems
Life Change Adjustment
Mood Disorders
OCD
Personal Conflict
Post Traumatic Stress
Psychological Disorders
How can working with a medical doctor who specializes in integrative medicine and lifestyle medicine help me?
elimination of the cause(s)
treatment of the condition
rebuilding of the body
the continuing support of a rejuvenation program
Integrative Medicine is healing-oriented medicine that takes account of the whole person, including all aspects of lifestyle. It emphasizes the therapeutic relationship between practitioner and patient, is informed by evidence, and makes use of all appropriate therapies.
Integrative medicine uses a variety of techniques to deliver whole-person care. It is an approach to wellness that combines Conventional (traditional western) medicine, which includes drugs, surgery, and lifestyle changes with Complementary therapies which may include chiropractic therapy, yoga, meditation, massage, acupuncture, use of herbs, and food as medicine, and much more.
Complementary therapies do not replace conventional treatments. They help you cope with symptoms, complications or side effects. Integrative medicine maximizes well-being with:
Disease-focused therapies of traditional Western medicine.
Healing opportunities from complementary therapies
Lifestyle Medicine is a medical approach that uses evidence-based behavioral interventions to prevent, treat and manage chronic disease. We help you better understand the role of diet, physical activity, sleep, stress management, interpersonal relationships, and other lifestyle behaviors that affect, alter, prevent, and potentially reverse age related chronic disease.
"Our goal is whole-person health- physical, emotional, and mental health. I hope to help you reach your maximum potential by utilizing the different treatment modalities that are right for you. We will help you become the CEO of your own health to heal your mind, body, and spirit ."
The Defining Principles:
Patient and practitioner are partners in the healing process.
All factors that influence health, wellness, and disease are taken into consideration, including mind, spirit, and community, as well as the body.
Appropriate use of both conventional and alternative methods facilitates the body's innate healing response.
Effective interventions that are natural and less invasive should be used whenever possible.
Integrative medicine neither rejects conventional medicine nor accepts alternative therapies uncritically.
Good medicine is based in good science. It is inquiry-driven and open to new paradigms.
Alongside the concept of treatment, the broader concepts of health promotion and the prevention of illness are paramount.
Practitioners of integrative and lifestyle medicine should exemplify its principles and commit themselves to self-exploration and self-development.
Let's create a life that is full of joy by working together to restore and optimize your overall health and well-being.
Live Life on an Even Keel and THRIVE
