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A holistic approach to your health and well-being.

We treat individuals with chronic complaints and conditions that persist despite the conventional managed-care model, as well as those looking to achieve the highest level of wellness.

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Why People Come to Us

The District Center for Integrative Medicine (DCIM), founded and directed by Dr. Anjali Dsouza, heals patients through a deeply individualized and holistic approach to health.

We treat individuals with chronic complaints and conditions that persist despite the conventional managed-care model, as well as those looking to achieve the highest level of wellness. By prioritizing the patient-physician relationship, we take the time and resources to understand every aspect of your medical history, as well as nutritional and environmental factors that affect your well-being.

Our role is to acknowledge your body’s innate capacity to heal, and to cultivate it.

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Dr. Anjali Dsouza, Medical Director

How we help you

Working with You

Compassionate care and collaborative dialogues to prioritize your needs and preferences.

Knowing You

Comprehensive interviews, exams, and advanced diagnostic testing.

Healing You

Individualized health plans and support to encourage your body to heal.

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What Our Patients Are Saying About Us

Dr. Dsouza is super at complex chronic illness!

She is super at complex chronic illness! I love that she starts with what she calls the “foundations of Health” I had been to multiple specialists who put me on a variety of different drugs—honestly, one drug for each complaint I had!  But, the first appointment I integrated her foundations of health plan which was an individualized nutrition plan, daily stress reduction, exercise, and sleep optimization.  I already had a 30% improvement!  With no drugs!  We’ve been doing more testing now and it looks like I have chronic infections and a parasite infection that are contributing to my daily brain fog and fatigue. She is magical.
2019-04-17T15:36:59+00:00
She is super at complex chronic illness! I love that she starts with what she calls the “foundations of Health” I had been to multiple specialists who put me on a variety of different drugs—honestly, one drug for each complaint I had!  But, the first appointment I integrated her foundations of health plan which was an individualized nutrition plan, daily stress reduction, exercise, and sleep optimization.  I already had a 30% improvement!  With no drugs!  We’ve been doing more testing now and it looks like I have chronic infections and a parasite infection that are contributing to my daily brain fog and fatigue. She is magical.

Brings her extensive knowledge of conventional medicine and psychopharmacology

Dr Dsouza is a highly skilled practitioner that brings her extensive knowledge of conventional medicine and psychopharmacology to this beautiful eastern wisdom that is so grounding.  I have struggled with the horrible side effects of Lithium b/c of Bipolar disorder.  She has helped by testing my adrenals, adding nutrition and switching me to a naturally occurring form of Lithium that has so far been so much better for my body.  I would highly recommend her and am really grateful that she exists.  I wish more doctors were open to learning things outside of what was taught to them in medical school.
2019-04-17T15:37:51+00:00
Dr Dsouza is a highly skilled practitioner that brings her extensive knowledge of conventional medicine and psychopharmacology to this beautiful eastern wisdom that is so grounding.  I have struggled with the horrible side effects of Lithium b/c of Bipolar disorder.  She has helped by testing my adrenals, adding nutrition and switching me to a naturally occurring form of Lithium that has so far been so much better for my body.  I would highly recommend her and am really grateful that she exists.  I wish more doctors were open to learning things outside of what was taught to them in medical school.

Helping me live with more quality of life!

Finally someone who has restored my faith in what healing should be! I am quite sick with depression, lupus, and fibromyalgia but we have been slowly chipping away at how to help me live with more quality of life.  I am in the first stages of testing nutrients but changing my diet and adding back those nutrients I was deficient in has already made a difference.  I have to prioritize saving money to see her as she is an out of network provider but it worth every penny.  I can have one less dinner out.  Being healthy is way more important.  I feel confident that seeing her will be so beneficial to me and I’m looking forward to it.
2019-04-17T15:39:11+00:00
Finally someone who has restored my faith in what healing should be! I am quite sick with depression, lupus, and fibromyalgia but we have been slowly chipping away at how to help me live with more quality of life.  I am in the first stages of testing nutrients but changing my diet and adding back those nutrients I was deficient in has already made a difference.  I have to prioritize saving money to see her as she is an out of network provider but it worth every penny.  I can have one less dinner out.  Being healthy is way more important.  I feel confident that seeing her will be so beneficial to me and I’m looking forward to it.

I immediately felt at ease with Dr. Dsouza

I saw Dr. Dsouza for chronic fatigue. The first thing I want to say is she is so easy to be with. I have always been a little uncomfortable and borderline untrusting of doctors. But, I immediately felt at ease when I sat with her. She doesn’t wear white coat and she has a pleasant interpersonal dynamic. I have a wonderful internist, but he kept telling me that ‘my labs were normal’ I was surprised when Dr Dsouza added a bunch of different labs to what I thought was already checked one hundred times, my thyroid.  Turns out, she diagnosed me with an autoimmune form of a thyroid problem. We worked to remove immune triggers, she supported my stomach system and put me on a low dose of thyroid hormone. I feel like a new person! I’m 55 years old, and regret not looking into integrative medicine sooner in my life. I can’t recommend her enough
2019-04-17T15:42:14+00:00
I saw Dr. Dsouza for chronic fatigue. The first thing I want to say is she is so easy to be with. I have always been a little uncomfortable and borderline untrusting of doctors. But, I immediately felt at ease when I sat with her. She doesn’t wear white coat and she has a pleasant interpersonal dynamic. I have a wonderful internist, but he kept telling me that ‘my labs were normal’ I was surprised when Dr Dsouza added a bunch of different labs to what I thought was already checked one hundred times, my thyroid.  Turns out, she diagnosed me with an autoimmune form of a thyroid problem. We worked to remove immune triggers, she supported my stomach system and put me on a low dose of thyroid hormone. I feel like a new person! I’m 55 years old, and regret not looking into integrative medicine sooner in my life. I can’t recommend her enough

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He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything.

Arabian proverb

Latest Health Articles

Awake At 3 A.M.?

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In The Media

So much I love about this article!  I personally own the Lectro Fan sound machine, have silicone earplugs (you can pop into your ENT to have these made), an eye mask, AND keep my phone out of the bedroom!  Meditation, and encouraging yourself not to fret are powerful tools to help with getting your Zzzz’s. © DCIM

The 5-Minute Tune-Up

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General Interest

You can do anything for 5 minutes.  Why not take a break and restore your nervous system. Follow Dr. Anjali Dsouza, Medical Director of the District Center for Integrative Medicine on a 5-minute, guided meditation.   © DCIM

Fibromyalgia

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Fibromyalgia is one of the most common chronic pain conditions.  It affects as many as 2-13% of the population. Shockingly, 80-90% of these people are women!    Symptoms of Fibromyalgia can include: Fatigue Stiffness Headaches Sleep disturbance Irritable bowel symptoms Hormone imbalances Depression Challenges to Diagnosis A Fibromyalgia diagnosis is “clinical.”  In other words, there is …
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Slamming Supplements – Are They Really Useless?

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General Interest

Recent headlines stated that supplements do not lower rates of death (see, e.g. “Choose Foods, Not Supplements – Dietary Supplements Do Not Help You Live Longer”).  This obviously provocative media play prompted a lot of questions from patients who take “supplements,” wondering if there was any point to them. A Note on the Process: The …
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PMS / PMDD

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Premenstrual syndrome is characterized by a variety of physical and psychological symptoms that happen days to weeks prior to menstruation, and typically resolve when you start bleeding. Common symptoms include: Depression and anxiety Irritability Insomnia Cravings Headaches Breast pain Acne Fluid Retention We think that shifts in hormones (like Estrogen and Progesterone), as well as …
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Hypothyroid (Autoimmune Variant)

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Self-Attack! …on Thyroid Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis (aka Chronic Autoimmune Thyroiditis) is the most common cause of Hypothyroidism we see in clinical practice.  It is an autoimmune variant of hypothyroidism, which means that the body’s own immune system is attacking the thyroid. Its name comes from Dr. Hashimoto.  He originally described patients with goiter (enlarged thyroid) and …
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District Center for Integrative Medicine
1915 I Street NW, 7th Floor
Washington, DC 20006
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(202) 251-7541
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