Dr. Maken has dedicated her life to helping others with mental, physical, and emotional well-being for over 24 years. She began her career in University research in the Behavioral Neuroscience field where she spent 15 years studying the rich interplay between the nervous system and behavior. After obtaining her PhD, she became a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Columbia University. While she was there, she studied how mental and emotional dysregulation can be correlated with brain functioning using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in children and adolescents in the brain imaging laboratory of the Psychiatry Department. Her populations of study were patients diagnosed with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity, Bi-Polar, and Obsessive-Compulsive disorders.

Throughout her studies, she became increasingly aware of consistent patterns of over-diagnosis and medication usage with little to no treatment of whole-person health including microbiome health, brain nutritional deficiencies, environmental toxicant exposures, or behavioral skills adversity training. It was common for her to observe grief, disordered attachment styles between parent and child, parental divorces, and other traumas as instigators of mental and emotional disturbances. Dr. Maken’s new awareness compelled her to go back to medical school to learn clinical natural medicine so that she could help patients resolve their root causes of dysfunctional health conditions.

Dr. Deborah Maken is a CA and WA licensed Naturopathic Doctor and Physician, Acupuncturist, and Behavioral Neuroscientist based in Los Angeles, California. She currently offers acupuncture, natureneuroFLEX treatment program, naturopathic, and functional medicine in-person care at clinics in both Torrance and Santa Monica.