TMS for Anxiety in San Diego
TMS is FDA-cleared for anxious depression, the racing, restless anxiety that travels with low mood. No sedatives, no dependence risk, no downtime. Evaluated and planned personally by Dr. Mario Salguero, MD, PhD.
Why Patients Choose Us
Dr. Salguero is board-certified in addiction psychiatry. If you're worried about depending on benzodiazepines to get through the day, he understands that concern better than almost anyone, and TMS adds nothing to your bloodstream.
Anxiety rarely travels alone. Whether yours is anxious depression, an anxiety disorder, or both changes what treatment should look like, so the evaluation isn't a formality here.
TMS doesn't slow you down, cloud your thinking, or build tolerance. You're awake through every session and drive yourself home after.
Because this is a full psychiatric practice, therapy referrals, careful medication management, and TMS can be weighed against each other honestly, not whatever a single-service clinic happens to sell.
Is This You?
Our Approach
Meet Your Psychiatrist
A board-certified psychiatrist, with additional board certification in addiction psychiatry, and former chief resident at UC San Diego, Dr. Salguero plans and delivers your TMS himself. For anxiety, that training matters: he knows exactly what long-term sedative use costs, and what it takes to build calm without it.
How to Get Started
Call, text, or send the form. We respond quickly and answer your questions directly.
Dr. Salguero works out what's actually driving your anxiety and whether TMS belongs in your plan.
Start a course built for your diagnosis and overseen by your physician throughout.
Frequently Asked Questions
TMS is FDA-cleared for anxious depression, anxiety symptoms occurring with major depression. For standalone anxiety disorders, TMS is used off-label based on a growing body of evidence. Dr. Salguero will tell you honestly which describes your situation and what the evidence supports for your case.
Possibly, many people who lead with anxiety turn out to have anxious depression once properly evaluated, and others may be candidates for off-label treatment. The evaluation exists to answer exactly this question, and you'll get a straight answer either way.
Usually not. TMS is frequently done alongside existing medication. If your regimen deserves a second look, especially long-term benzodiazepines, that's a conversation Dr. Salguero is specifically trained to guide, at your pace.
You sit in a chair, awake and alert, while the device delivers magnetic pulses. No sedation, no anesthesia, no memory effects. Most people read or relax, then drive themselves home.
Call or text 858-461-8614, or send the form. We respond quickly and will schedule your evaluation.
If you're searching for TMS for anxiety in San Diego, precision matters more than promises. TMS is FDA-cleared for anxious depression, the very common combination of persistent worry and low mood, and it offers something anxiety medications can't: relief with no sedation, no cognitive fog, and no dependence. At Brain Strength for Life, every course is planned and supervised by Dr. Mario Salguero, MD, PhD, a board-certified psychiatrist who also holds board certification in addiction psychiatry.
That second credential is not a footnote. Many people with anxiety quietly worry about how long they can keep relying on sedatives. Dr. Salguero builds treatment plans designed to answer that worry rather than postpone it.
Anxiety is also the most commonly misattributed symptom in psychiatry, it can lead, mask, or follow depression, and the difference determines the right treatment. That's why nothing here starts with a machine. It starts with a full evaluation by the physician who would be overseeing your care, and an honest conversation about what the evidence supports for your specific diagnosis.
Patients reach us from across San Diego, La Jolla, Del Mar, and Carmel Valley, usually tired in both senses of the word, and looking for a plan that doesn't ask them to trade clarity for calm.
Ready for Quiet That Lasts?
Dr. Salguero will evaluate what's actually driving your symptoms and tell you plainly whether TMS, medication adjustments, or a combination is your best next step. No pressure, no obligation.