I am Jonas Linebaugh. I am a veteran, proud father of two, emergency nurse, and board-certified psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner providing mental health services with a focus on postpartum mothers, men's health, veterans & first responders. I like to understand the full picture of my patients’ lives so I can address every possible source of their mental health concerns.
I take an integrative approach, focusing on all of the lifestyle factors that play a role in one's mental health — diet, movement, sleep, caffeine intake, and associated medical problems.
I prefer an outcome-focused approach. We are all capable of achieving remarkable things; let us not focus simply on our problems, but on where we want to end up.
For the initial intake evaluation, we spend more time together so I can go through a standardized question form that helps establish a baseline of who you are, what your needs may be, and what symptoms you’re experiencing. After that, I invite my clients to tell me—in their own words—what brought them in. This gives space for you to open up and describe what you’re feeling and going through, rather than being limited to yes/no questions or the structure of the form. During the intake, we’ll also establish baseline scores on screening tools such as the PHQ‐9, MDQ, and GAD‐7 which are meant to measure progress over time, not to determine a diagnosis.
