Certifications

Psychiatry and Integrative Medicine

Biography

In her native Hungary, Dr. Saringer’s father who was a scientist, guided her intellectual endeavors and her interest in humanity, while her mother’s compassionate nature and trust gave her the freedom to explore the world. Her parents provided an intellectually stimulating and warm home that fostered her curiosity and interest in other cultures, art, and the many facets of human existence.

In 1985, after graduating from medical school in Hungary and embarking on her psychiatry residency training, she moved to the U.S. It was an exciting time to create a new life from a personal perspective, as well as pursuing her professional career. Dr. Saringer joined the Albert Einstein College of Medicine’s psychiatry residency training, followed by its child and adolescent fellowship program. Her education is well-rounded in every area of psychiatry. This includes assessments and diagnostic skills, psychopharmacology, psychotherapy, and family and group therapy. She continued strengthening her psychotherapeutic skills by enrolling in the post-graduate psychodynamic psychotherapy for children and adolescents training program at the NYU Psychoanalytic Institute. During the time of her entire training, she met exceptional mentors and made lifelong friends.

After graduation, Dr. Saringer worked in different children’s hospitals, nonprofit organizations, and clinics as an adult, adolescent, and child psychiatrist. From the beginning, her special interest has been the significance of trauma and stress, and its consequences on physical and mental illnesses. She gained expertise in treating trauma related conditions applying stress reduction techniques, including coherent breathing, Open Focus brain synchrony training, Transcendental Meditation (TM), heart rate variability/HeartMath/biofeedback and neurofeedback, among others.

Through clinical observation and experience, Dr. Saringer has come to understand that medicating a patient’s symptoms isn’t always the way to alleviate suffering. Her focus has shifted towards studying ancient holistic healing methods, including Ayurvedic medicine. Ayurveda, the 3,000-year-old science of life, focuses on the universal interconnectedness of people, their health and the universe. Later, she discovered Functional Medicine, which is a modern, science based approach of personalized healing that searches for the common root causes of chronic illnesses. Dr. Saringer dove deep into understanding and learning the principles through the Institute of Functional Medicine. She has grown passionate about applying its principles to her own life and the lives of her patients.

In her practice Dr. Saringer encounters and treats a wide spectrum of clinical and human suffering -applying both conventional and alternative treatments. She is on a mission to help patients achieve the right physical, emotional, mental, social, and spiritual balance.