Michael Bowen, M.D.

Michael Bowen, M.D. is a physician passionate about improving the health of his patients. His training background is a unique combination of civilian and military medical training. It began with medical school at The Ohio State University College of Medicine, where he discovered his interest in psychiatry. This led to a four-year psychiatry residency at Naval Medical Center San Diego, after which he completed two separate operational tours as the embedded active duty psychiatrist with a Fleet Surgical Team and with a United States Marine Corps Regiment. During these years his interest in aspects of sports psychiatry and sleep took root, and upon honorable discharge from the United States Navy in 2022, he began a sleep medicine fellowship at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Phoenix. Armed with additional knowledge of how sleep impacts health, he began work at Choulet Performance Psychiatry.

Working at Choulet Performance has been serendipitous in many ways. For Dr. Bowen, it has been a place to grow his experience with sports and performance psychiatry. While he had already taken some interest in this emerging subspecialty, the environment at Choulet Performance encouraged him to complete the International Society of Sports Psychiatry curriculum, earning their certificate of additional training. He later went on to obtain certification from the American Board of Sports and Performance Psychiatry. While he enjoys working with athletes on specific concerns in the sports arena, Dr. Bowen likes to take a broad perspective on what constitutes a performance environment, believing activities such as parenting, various careers, and other aspects of life can benefit from being looked at through a sports psychiatry lens. Dr. Bowen is a former NCAA Division I athlete, having swam competitively all four years of his undergraduate studies at Harvard College.

Dr. Bowen also views lifestyle choices as truly foundational to mental and overall health. Due to this, he spent significant time in 2025 studying and earning certification from the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine. Interest in nutrition and physical activity were what took Dr. Bowen to medical school in the first place, and it has been exciting for him to return to that interest via this pursuit. In Dr. Bowen’s clinic, the pillars of lifestyle medicine (nutrition, physical activity, sleep, social connection, stress management, and avoidance of toxins) are used as a framework for understanding and improving health. Dr. Bowen is a strong believer that core pillars of health are crucial to address. While this can take time, he believes changes in these areas can lead to more meaningful growth than by viewing health only through a disease management lens.

Dr. Bowen’s interests lie at the intersection of mental health, lifestyle factors, and daily functioning and performance, through a lens of improving both quality of life and longevity. His primary clinical focuses are the treatment of anxiety, depression, ADHD, and insomnia, all of which can significantly impact quality of life. Each assessment begins with a broad assessment of health, including mental and physical health as well as the social context in which a person lives. Dr. Bowen is passionate about using all the tools of a psychiatric practice, including judicious use of medications, gaining understanding via cognitive-behavioral therapy, and prescribing lifestyle interventions, to increase an individual’s functioning, decrease distress, and achieve specific goals. He strives to form an honest, collaborative therapeutic alliance with each person he treats and is excited for each opportunity to leverage his expertise to help a fellow human being. He is also a believer in a wellness model of health and that there are benefits from the therapeutic process beyond just the diagnosis of disorders. Therapy can be a wonderful way to learn about oneself and to gain benefit from new insights!

Dr. Bowen is a member of the American Psychiatric Association, the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, and the International Society of Sports Psychiatry. Outside of work, Dr. Bowen enjoys spending time with family and friends, physical activity, traveling, and learning new things!

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Location:

• Paradise Valley Office

Certifications:

• American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology: Psychiatry
• American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology: Sleep Medicine
• Diplomate of the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine / International Board of Lifestyle Medicine
  
• Certified by the American Board of Sports & Performance Psychiatry
• ​​​​​​​National Board of Physicians and Surgeons: Psychiatry
• National Board of Physicians and Surgeons: Sleep Medicine
• International Society for Sports Psychiatry: Certificate of Additional Training in Sports Psychiatry

Licensure:

• Arizona Medical Board

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Undergraduate Education:

• Harvard College

Medical Education:

• Ohio State University College of Medicine (M.D.)

Residency Training:

• Naval Medical Center San Diego

Fellowship:

• Sleep Medicine Fellowship at the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix

Professional Organizations:

• American Academy of Sleep Medicine
• International Society for Sports Psychiatry
• American College of Lifestyle Medicine

• American Psychiatric Association