Our Story

Founded by providers who have experienced antidepressant and anti-anxiety withdrawal themselves, TaperWell draws on the large evidence for hyperbolic tapering-a concept that many of us were unaware of when going through withdrawal.

Dr. Winston Turnage experienced withdrawal firsthand- panic feelings, sleep problems, anxiety, muscle aches and more that the traditional approach labeled this as “relapse”, but he knew it was something different because it was nothing like he experienced before. As it turns out, these were symptoms of withdrawal that quickly went away after re-instating but were unrecognized by providers at the time.

It was this experience that led our founder, Dr. Winston Turnage to research and learn the science behind hyperbolic tapering-an approach not traditionally taught in the medical community though is now becoming much more widely known and accepted. TaperWell is now able to offer tapering plans guided by the Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines and other recently published guidelines making coming off of antidepressants and anti-anxiety medication much safer and more comfortable.

TaperWell is proud to offer authentic, understanding of what it feels like to experience withdrawal and how to safely and effectively taper off without being thrown off a cliff by traditional medical approaches.