Rather than just addressing the symptoms of mental illness, Dr. Aruna uses a broad scope of intervention, including diet, exercise, meditation, yoga, nutritional supplements, Ayurvedic herbs, HBOT, psychotherapy, and careful use of psychiatric medicines. She recognizes that reducing the reliance on psychiatric medicines reduces the severity and occurrence of side effects while empowering her patients.

Health, harmony, and vitality are qualities she envisions and strives for in all her patients.

Dr. Aruna has authored and presented on the topics of mental illness, Ayurveda, and integrative approaches to mental illness to academic audiences both in the United States and abroad. Dr. Aruna was a resident psychiatrist for the Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals and then a Fellow in Geriatric Psychiatry for the same organization.

She received her Doctor of Medicine in psychiatry in 2003 from the Deemed University, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS) in Bangalore, India. She was recognized for excellence and received three awards during her undergraduate medical education at the Vijayanagar Institute of Medical Sciences in Bellary, India.

Dr. Aruna is a Board Member At Large for the AAIDD organization (American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Wisconsin Chapter).