Dr. Mark Janikula is the leading expert in the United States in the homeopathic and natural management of mental health. Dr. Janikula takes on complicated and challenging cases when other forms of treatment have failed.
Dr. Janikula understands true health and disease. His knowledge of psychiatric conditions is comprehensive, understanding causes, genetics, symptoms, and challenges which patients face. Every single case is completely different and requires many hours to understand the true nature of the individual’s unique challenges. When the whole picture is understood, Dr. Janikula’s approach is very simple, stimulate the body to heal by using homeopathy, and remove any obstacles that get in the way.
Dr. Janikula was raised on a family farm in Minnesota. From a young age, he learned the values of hard work and honesty which he carries directly into his medical practice. He places patients in the driver’s seat by providing education to create a clear understanding of their disease and treatment options. He finds so many areas of medicine natural or conventional, are misleading to patients, making informed choices difficult. Dr. Janikula is a rare doctor who works for the patient and not the other way around.
Dr. Janikula graduated from St. John’s University in Minnesota studying chemistry and nutrition with the intent of pursuing a career in conventional medicine. Observing that conventional medicine knows nothing of health and taught no courses on nutrition, he opted to pursue Naturopathic Medicine. He attended Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine, a four-year Naturopathic medical school, and received his doctorate (N.D.) in 2003. While in school, Dr. Janikula obsessively researched nutritional causes and treatments of disease, spending much of his time in the library reading all the current research. He planned on using nutritional medicine exclusively in his practice, however, during his clinical rotations he observed that nutritional medicine greatly helped diseases of lifestyle and offered only minor assistance in cases of serious disease such as mental illness.
While in naturopathic medical school, Dr. Janikula was reluctantly placed on a homeopathy rotation with Dr. Stephen Messer, N.D. Dr. Janikula had objected, like many misinformed scientific minds, because homeopathy did not make sense in the paradigm of modern science. After working with Dr. Messer for 6 months, nearly every patient on the rotation was improving more than any other rotation either conventional or natural medicine. He changed directions and has become one of the few experts in the world using homeopathy to treat psychiatric conditions.
Homeopathy, unfortunately for suffering patients, is a controversial subject. When applied accurately the effectiveness cannot be matched. However, there are very few individuals in the United States that apply these principles with consistent effectiveness. Dr. Janikula spends 20-30 hours a week in addition to his very busy practice in consistent and systematic study of homeopathy. Only through this diligent study can homeopathy be applied in complicated cases.
Dr. Janikula was the founder, president, and medical director of Fountainhead Clinic in Capitola, CA. Fountainhead Clinic was a non-profit mental health clinic offering patients high quality homeopathic care. He founded Fountainhead Clinic with the goal of opening a hospital, but after realizing the frustration and inordinate amount of time it would take to train enough doctors to use homeopathy to his standards, as well as the lack of funding for this type of endeavor, he decided to venture back into private practice. He has now streamlined his practice, to offer the highest quality care that can be provided.
