Founder
Dr. Sarah McLaughlin
Board-certified psychiatrist.
Founder of Vine & Branch
Dr. Sarah McLaughlin · Middle Tennessee
Background
How I arrived at this work.
Dr. Sarah McLaughlin is a board-certified psychiatrist with additional training in integrative and functional medicine. She completed her psychiatric residency at Geisinger Medical Center and is certified through the Institute for Functional Medicine and the Integrative Psychiatry Institute.
Her clinical interests center on women's psychiatric care across the reproductive life span — perinatal mood disorders, postpartum depression and anxiety, premenstrual dysphoric disorder, perimenopausal mood symptoms, and the intersection of hormonal health with psychiatric presentation. She has a particular focus on the careful, conservative use of medication and the equal weight of nutritional, hormonal, and lifestyle factors in psychiatric care.
Before founding Vine & Branch, Dr. McLaughlin built and ran Rooted Energy, a functional medicine practice that served patients across multiple states. Vine & Branch is the next chapter — narrower in scope, deeper in attention, and explicit in its Christian framing.
Dr. McLaughlin lives in Middle Tennessee with her husband and children. When she is not seeing patients, she is most likely reading theology, walking in the woods near her home, or rearranging the living room furniture again.
Credentials
Education and certifications.
Psychiatric Residency
Geisinger Medical Center
Board Certified — Psychiatry
American Osteopathic Board of Neurology and Psychiatry
Certified — Functional Medicine
Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM)
Certified — Integrative Psychiatry
Integrative Psychiatry Institute (IPI)
Licensed in Tennessee
Active
Additional Active Licensure
Colorado · Florida · Pennsylvania · South Carolina · Georgia
A note from Sarah
If you are reading this, you may be considering whether to inquire. Before you do, I want you to know who I am — and what I am not. I am a psychiatrist who took the work of psychiatry seriously enough to leave the way it is usually done. I am a Christian whose convictions shape my work, not because I want to recruit you to them, but because honesty about what I believe is part of how I serve you well. I am a small practice. I will not be everything to everyone, and that is the point. If you think we might be a fit, please reach out. If we are, I would be honored to do this work with you.
— Sarah
“Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”
Matthew 11:28