About Dr. Allison Mulcahy, MD
Dr. Allison Mulcahy is a physician, researcher, and educator whose work explores how the nervous system bridges physiology, trauma healing, embodiment, sexuality, and consciousness.
Dr. Allison Mulcahy is a double board-certified physician in Emergency Medicine and Integrative Medicine with more than 15 years of experience practicing emergency medicine in the United States and internationally.
Before pursuing medicine, she earned a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University, where her training in systems thinking and bioengineering helped shape her later work integrating physiology, neuroscience, and whole-person healing.
Dr. Mulcahy completed her Emergency Medicine residency and ultrasound fellowship at UCSF / Alameda County Medical Center, one of the leading emergency medicine training programs in the United States. She later served as Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of New Mexico and held adjunct faculty roles with the University of Utah and the University of Washington, where she taught emergency medicine and point-of-care ultrasound to physicians and medical trainees.
Her career has included extensive international clinical work, humanitarian medicine, research, and global medical education. She served as an emergency physician with Doctors Without Borders in Yemen, with International Medical Corps in Haiti and nepal following the Haiti earthquakes, and with the Himalayan Rescue Association in Nepal, where she provided medical care in remote high-altitude clinics and participated in research on altitude physiology.
Dr. Mulcahy also conducted maternal health ultrasound research in Mali with the Massachusetts General Hospital Division of Global Health and Human Rights at Harvard Medical School, studying the impact of ultrasound implementation in rural clinics. In addition, she has taught emergency medicine to physicians in Myanmar through Stanford Emergency Medicine International and participated in humanitarian medical teaching and service in Mexico.
Beyond humanitarian settings, she has practiced emergency medicine in clinical environments across multiple countries including Norway, New Zealand, and Turks and Caicos, reflecting a career shaped by both global medical service and cross-cultural clinical practice.
Dr. Mulcahy holds advanced training in integrative medicine through the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona, along with fellowships and advanced study in functional medicine, point of care ultrasound, precision genomics, integrative psychiatry and ketamine-assisted therapy, regenerative medicine, longevity and anti-aging medicine, and hormone optimization.
She also has extensive expertise in wilderness and expedition medicine, holding a Diploma in Mountain Medicine and Fellowship in the Academy of Wilderness Medicine. She has volunteered as a medic with the Denali Rescue Patrol on Mount Denali and has spent many years teaching wilderness medicine and leadership skills in remote environments. She has also served as an instructor for the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS).
Dr. Mulcahy’s understanding of the body has been shaped not only through medicine but also through a lifetime of physical performance and time spent in powerful natural environments.
She competed as a Division I athlete and continues to pursue physically demanding outdoor sports including kitesurfing, mountain biking, and skiing. These experiences have provided a firsthand understanding of how the body responds to stress, injury, recovery, and peak performance.
Living and traveling in landscapes around the world—from mountains to oceans to remote wilderness environments—has reinforced the profound influence that nature has on the human nervous system. Sunlight, water, movement, terrain, and environmental rhythms all play a role in how the body regulates and restores itself.
These experiences have shaped Dr. Mulcahy’s approach to healing, integrating clinical medicine with a lived understanding of the body as a dynamic system that responds not only to treatments but also to environment, movement, challenge, and connection with the natural world.
This perspective ultimately led to the creation of Anahita in Kauaʻi, where the natural landscape serves as part of the container for the deeper healing work explored within Sacred Neurophysiology.
In 2019 she founded Boost, an integrative and regenerative medical practice with locations in Moab, Utah and Victor, Idaho, combining integrative medicine, regenerative therapies, and nervous-system-focused care. She also served as Medical Director of Joy Wellness Partners in San Diego from 2021 to 2023, helping develop integrative and regenerative treatment programs.
After several successful years of clinical practice, Dr. Mulcahy chose to close Boost in late 2023 to enter a period of deeper reflection and exploration that she describes as a “soulbatical.”
During this time she traveled extensively, studying healing modalities from cultures around the world while engaging in her own personal healing and self-inquiry. With the structures and distractions of professional life temporarily removed, this period became an opportunity for profound transformation and integration — a process she continues to view as ongoing.
Her work during this time included training in clairvoyant perception, shamanic healing practices, and transmedium development, as well as study with the International School of Temple Arts (ISTA) exploring the intersection of sexuality, spirituality, and personal transformation. She also participated in programs in sex, love, and relationship coaching and pleasure-based embodiment practices, including programs developed by Mama Gena and Layla Martin.
Through both clinical experience and personal exploration, Dr. Mulcahy came to recognize the important role that pleasure, embodiment, and sexual energy can play in nervous system healing. In her work, these forces are understood not as separate from health but as fundamental expressions of human vitality and regulation.
Through the integration of her scientific training, extensive medical career, global exploration of healing traditions, and personal transformational work, Dr. Mulcahy developed the framework of sacred neurophysiology.
This framework explores how the nervous system connects physiology, emotion, trauma, sexuality, identity, and consciousness into a unified model of healing.
In 2025, Dr. Mulcahy founded Awakening Aphrodite, a nonprofit initiative exploring new models of healing that integrate medicine, somatic practices, sexuality, and community-based care. The project is fiscally sponsored by Omprakash, an international nonprofit organization supporting global social impact initiatives.
Through Anahita, she continues to explore new models of healing that integrate scientific medicine, nervous system regulation, somatic awareness, and the deeper dimensions of human experience.
Media & Conversations
Dr. Mulcahy has participated in a number of public conversations exploring the intersection of medicine, consciousness, and emerging approaches to healing.
These discussions have included topics such as nervous system regulation, integrative medicine, intuitive perception, and the evolving relationship between science and spirituality in modern healthcare.