Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

I am a provider at our Edmonds clinic who offers psychiatry services!

My ideal client has depression which has been ongoing but subsides at times. She finds it difficult to keep up with her medications sometimes and misses her therapy sessions quite often due to not being happy in various areas of her life including family issues, loss of job and not progressing in life as she wanted. Their goal is to get off their depressive state and be happy. She wants to speak to provider who understands her and her situation, give her a medication that is evidence-based to work and explain thoroughly to her the role of therapy in getting her where she wants to be.

My role as a PMHNP is to help with the diagnosis of her depression, medication management, psychoeducation, and referral to other members of the treatment team, such as the therapist, which I believe would be beneficial to the patient.

I want the patient to know I understand her situation and will hold her hands as she undergoes her treatment by giving her proper education, communicating empathetically with her, and ensuring her medications are going to give her optimal results while monitoring for any side effects.