Adult Psychiatrist, Board Certified

Getting to know Michelle To, M.D.

Michelle To, MD specializes in treating mental disorders in adults. She graduated with honors from the University of Southern California before completing her medical school, residency, and fellowship training at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.

She completed a fellowship in Psychosomatic Medicine, a sub-specialty focused on the complex interplay between medical and psychiatric illnesses. She has additional fellowship training in Integrative & Functional Psychiatry under renowned functional medicine expert Dr. James Greenblatt. At the Greater Los Angeles VA Hospital, she served as the Deputy Chief of Acute Care Psychiatry and received a faculty award for excellence in teaching from the UCLA-GLAVA psychiatry residency program.

Dr. To now practices telepsychiatry in her hometown of Los Angeles. Her therapeutic approach emphasizes the importance of authenticity, self-compassion, greater cognitive flexibility, and the healing power of simply being witnessed. With each patient, she gathers a comprehensive history and uses lab testing to create a holistic treatment plan that recognizes each person’s biochemical individuality.

Treatment may include medication, but centers around addressing the root causes of mental illness such as poor nutrition, metabolic disease, epigenetics, environmental toxins, relationships, trauma, sleep, stress, and lifestyle. In her free time, she enjoys restoration gardening with California native plants.