Scottsdale, AZ · Telehealth Available Across Arizona
Where natural medicine meets the root of your story
I'm Dr. Maria Cronyn — naturopathic physician, board-certified homeopath, adult adoptee, and military veteran with 26 years of clinical experience. My medical practice and the Adoption Evolution nonprofit share one mission, one platform, and one address. I specialize in integrative mental health, complex trauma from early separation, Lyme and tick-borne disease, bioidentical hormone therapy, and homeopathy.
Adoption and foster care are not footnotes in a patient's history. They are social determinants of health — with measurable lifelong impacts on physical, neurological, and psychological wellbeing.
Hormone health is mental health.
After nearly three decades of practicing naturopathic medicine in Scottsdale, I've arrived at a truth most conventional medicine misses: the majority of what we label as mental illness has a physical root. Infections that mimic anxiety. Hormonal imbalances that look like depression. Complex trauma from early separation stored in the body that no antidepressant can reach.
My job as a naturopathic physician and board-certified homeopath is to find that root and heal it — naturally, precisely, and with the kind of deep listening that most patients tell me they've never experienced before.
Adoption and foster care are social determinants of health. I treat them as such: with full clinical rigor, trauma-informed care, and the firsthand understanding that comes from having lived it.
"Nothing matches homeopathy's power to precisely match the individual's unique experience. When used correctly, it can change lives — quickly, safely, and deeply."Dr. Maria Cronyn, NMD DABHM · Scottsdale, AZ
Integrative care across the full spectrum
I offer the complete scope of naturopathic primary care — from pharmaceuticals when medically necessary, always paired with natural therapies that treat your whole story, not just your diagnosis.
Integrative Mental Health
Homeopathic psychotherapy, PTSD, anxiety, depression, and mood disorders treated through a whole-body lens. I look for the physical roots — infections, hormonal imbalances, nutritional deficiencies — that conventional psychiatry routinely misses, including complex PTSD from early separation.
Adoption & Foster Care Healing
Trauma-informed, adoption-literate care for adoptees, foster care alumni, adoptive families, and human trafficking survivors. Adoption and foster care are social determinants of health — I treat them as such, with the clinical depth and lived experience most providers cannot offer.
Lyme & Vector-Borne Disease
As an ILADS member, I apply current, evidence-based protocols for Lyme disease, Bartonella, Ehrlichia, Anaplasma, PANS/PANDAS, and other tick-borne co-infections — even without a confirmed tick bite or positive standard test.
Bioidentical Hormone Therapy (BHRT)
My BHRT is never cookie-cutter. Comprehensive hormone panels — estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, DHEA, cortisol, thyroid — with precision prescribing and homeopathy to support deeper hormonal regulation at every level.
Advanced Homeopathy
Board-certified in homeopathy (DABHM) with 26 years of constitutional prescribing. When the right remedy is selected for the right person, the results are extraordinary — from acute infections to chronic mental health conditions and complex trauma from early separation.
Thyroid & Chronic Illness
The thyroid is the gateway to your entire health system. I go well beyond standard TSH testing to evaluate the full thyroid and adrenal picture — often revealing exactly what's been missed in Hashimoto's, hypothyroidism, and unexplained chronic fatigue.
Hero with a D
Clinician. Adoptee. Founder. 26 years.Dr. Maria Cronyn is a naturopathic physician and board-certified homeopath (DABHM) with 26 years of clinical practice in Scottsdale, Arizona. She is the founder of Adoption Evolution (EIN 33-3122373), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to advocating for, educating, and validating the adoption diaspora — the full community touched by adoption and foster care. She is also a U.S. military veteran.
"I was on the verge of a PhD in psychology when I found naturopathic medicine. I knew instantly this was it. The science, the philosophy, the heart of it — all of it felt like home."
Born Maria Herod — Hero with a D — Dr. Cronyn came to medicine after military service and nearly completing a PhD in psychology. When she discovered homeopathy, she recognized it immediately as her true path. Nothing she has encountered in medicine matches its ability to precisely fit a person's unique experience. In mental health, that precision is everything.
She specializes in trauma-informed, adoption-literate care because she has lived it. As an adult adoptee, Dr. Cronyn understands the complex PTSD that can emerge from early separation, the fear of abandonment that resurfaces in adult relationships, and the fractured identity that no standard diagnosis fully captures. Homeopathy allows her to gently clear those initial emotional blocks so the true self can emerge.
"Adoption and foster care are social determinants of health. The complex trauma of early separation doesn't disappear — it shapes the nervous system, the immune system, and every relationship that follows."
Dr. Cronyn's approach is fully integrative. She holds complete naturopathic prescribing authority in Arizona and uses pharmaceuticals when medically necessary — always alongside homeopathy, botanical medicine, and targeted nutritional support. Her medical practice and the Adoption Evolution nonprofit exist under one roof, one platform, and one unified mission. If you've tried everything and nothing has worked, she is here. Let's make you a force of nature, too.
- Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine (NMD) — licensed, state of Arizona
- Diplomate, American Board of Homeotherapeutics (DABHM)
- ILADS member — current Lyme-literate treatment protocols
- 26 years of naturopathic clinical practice
- Adult adoptee — lived-experience adoption medicine specialist
- United States military veteran
- Founder, Adoption Evolution 501(c)(3), EIN 33-3122373
- Graduate study in psychology — PhD candidate prior to NMD
The practice and the nonprofit are not separate things.
Dr. Cronyn's naturopathic medical practice and Adoption Evolution are two expressions of the same work. The practice delivers one-on-one integrative clinical care. The nonprofit extends that healing through education, community, professional training, and advocacy — reaching people the clinical practice cannot see individually.
Everything lives here, at adoptionevolution.org. One site. One platform. No external redirects, no separate domains. Whether you are seeking clinical care, looking for the Sunday Salon, searching for Dr. Cronyn's writing, or exploring professional training, you are in the right place.
About Adoption Evolution →Dr. Maria Cronyn, NMD DABHM
One-on-one naturopathic care for individuals and families.
- In-person: 4343 Scottsdale Rd, Suite 150, Scottsdale AZ 85251
- Telehealth throughout Arizona
- Mon–Wed & Fri: 9:00 AM–3:00 PM
- Thursday: 12:30–6:30 PM
- Phone: (928) 390-5655
- Fax: (866) 807-4710
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You don't have to explain why early separation hurts.
I already know.
As an adoptee, I bring something most clinicians cannot offer: lived experience. The complex trauma of early separation. The fear of abandonment that resurfaces in adult relationships. The fractured sense of identity that no standard diagnosis fully captures. These are not symptoms to be managed. They are wounds with a story — and that story deserves a provider who can hear it, hold it, and help it heal.
The adoption diaspora is every person touched by adoption and foster care: adoptees, foster alumni, birth and first parents, adoptive and foster families, and the professionals who work with them. Through Adoption Evolution, I work to advocate for, educate, and validate this entire community. In my Scottsdale practice, I combine constitutional homeopathy, trauma-informed integrative medicine, and whole-person primary care — with adoption and foster care recognized as social determinants of health.
- Adult adoptees navigating complex PTSD from early separation
- Foster care alumni with histories of developmental trauma
- Adoptive and foster parents seeking adoption-competent medical support
- Individuals healing from human trafficking or coercive control
- Birth and first parents carrying the grief of surrender
- Families at any stage of the adoption or foster care journey
Specializing in adoption-literate naturopathic medicine — not from a textbook, but from lived experience as an adoptee and clinician.
Americans touched by adoption and foster care — nearly one in three. Adoption is a social determinant of health, not a niche population.
Adoption Evolution — the 501(c)(3) Dr. Cronyn founded to extend this healing beyond her practice walls and into the full adoption diaspora.
Writing by Dr. Maria Cronyn
Clinical insight, lived experience, and honest conversation about adoption, trauma, mental health, and integrative medicine — all in one place, right here on this site.
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Dr. Cronyn's writing on complex trauma from early separation, adoption as a social determinant of health, integrative mental health, Lyme disease, BHRT, and homeopathy will live here — on this site, not externally. Add a Squarespace Blog block to this section to activate the feed.
What to expect when you work with Dr. Cronyn
Starting something new in medicine can feel like a big step. Here is exactly what the process looks like.
Schedule your consultation
Call 928.390.5655. Both in-person visits at our Scottsdale office (4343 Scottsdale Rd, Suite 150) and telehealth appointments throughout Arizona are available.
Tell your whole story
Your first appointment is a thorough, unhurried intake covering body, mind, history, and lived experience. Dr. Cronyn asks questions other providers don't ask — because the answers are where healing begins.
Receive a personalized treatment plan
No protocols. No cookie-cutter approaches. Your plan is built around your unique pattern: natural therapies first, precise constitutional homeopathy, pharmaceuticals when medically necessary.
Evolve, transform, thrive
Healing deepens over time. Dr. Cronyn tracks progress, adjusts the plan as you respond, and keeps moving toward your best possible health. Evolution is the goal of every patient relationship.
Questions I hear most often
If you don't see your question answered here, please call us at 928.390.5655 — I want you to feel confident and informed before your first visit.
You've been searching for someone who actually gets it.
Whether you're navigating complex trauma from early separation, chronic Lyme, hormone imbalance, or a mental health journey that hasn't responded to conventional care — Dr. Maria Cronyn is here. And she's been expecting you.
4343 Scottsdale Rd, Suite 150, Scottsdale AZ 85251 · Mon–Wed & Fri 9am–3pm · Thu 12:30–6:30pm