I'm a psychiatric nurse practitioner offering collaborative telehealth care for people navigating cancer and serious illness — at any age, any stage: diagnosis, active treatment, survivorship, or grief. Before this work, I spent years in hospice chaplaincy and public health, so I'm used to sitting with the hard parts of illness, not just the prescribing. I take the work seriously; myself, not so much.
I offer medication management alongside real conversation, because anxiety, depression, sleep trouble, and brain fog are common companions to serious illness — and they're often the last thing anyone addresses. My style is collaborative: we figure out what's working and what isn't together. I draw on person-centered, compassion-focused, and motivational interviewing approaches, shaped by a background that includes chaplaincy and public health as much as clinical training.
You don't need to be the strong one here, and you don't need the right words or a clear plan going in. Whether you're the one who's ill or the one holding things together for someone who is, my job is to make sure that your mental health doesn't get lost in the shuffle of appointments, treatments, and everyone else's needs.
