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As program director in the department of psychiatry at the University of New Mexico, she supports psychiatric trainees to the University of Arizona’s integrative medicine online module, mentoring future psychiatrists integrative healing methods for those they are serving. She has practiced as a psychiatrist for twenty-eight years in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she is on the faculty at the University of New Mexico as an associate professor and attending child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist. She has often spoken about integrative health, including Ayurvedic healing in her presentations and written chapters for textbooks published in her field.
Yet what speaks the loudest on why she’s an authority on a panchakarma cleanse is how it has profoundly shifted her own life, something she only hoped was possible. She has personally experienced the cleanse and seen the power of it in the significant changes she has instituted in her life, her health, and her career, which continues to unfold.
By training, as a psychiatrist/medical doctor, Pentz has sought ways to have people deeply integrate their own healing at all levels of their being: spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical. In her private practice and her work with children, adolescents, and adults at UNM, she has introduced nutrition and nutriceuticals as alternatives or integrations with Western medicine.
