Marike Sannindi

I hold a doctoral degree from a progressive Jesuit school as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. Prior, I spent over 10 years in one-on-one home healthcare, studied psychology before nursing, and obtained an EMT certification with interest in Fire and Rescue EMS.

In the past, I considered everything from becoming a veterinarian, an acupuncturist, a wildlife biologist, a gypsy with a fishing boat, a journalist, an underwater welder, an astronomer, an anthropologist, and going instead, to medical school. The nursing field, however, is beautifully versatile, and just ended up being on point and on time. I'd like to think my perspective and practice weaves in threads of all of those other fields.

Exploring the internal world is just an integral part of my life. By now, I'm cozy with cross-cultural/philosophical and belief perspectives surrounding existence, growth, difficult symptoms, and medicines. I've worked with myself - no doubt, but personally and professionally, with a lot of other people for whom it's all been front and center.

You know you, and this kind of medicine is inherently relationship and collaboration.

I think critically and analytically about your medical picture, and have been told that I both explain and question what may have not been by others.

We can explore diagnoses, discuss the value of specific medications you may already be on, consider removing some of them, switching, or adding others, or just keep building on what's working.

I aim for precision if using psychiatric medications, but am alternatively, very integrative-medicine-friendly.

I go where you want to go, and are ready to go. From the philosophically and existentially broad, to the concretely targeted and focused, we can consider as much or as little as you like.

No topic, or approach to discussing your experience, how you see it, or treatment modalities of interest, is too "out there" for me...

First sessions, evaluations, are typically an hour. I want to try to get as much foundational info and history as possible, to get to know you, and how you see your world.

As much background as you're able to give - of what you're feeling and experiencing, any treatment and medications used, family history, any other physical medical conditions - is very useful for thinking about where to go from here, and for having what we do together have the greatest chance of being helpful to you.

We'll spend time on the critical present and what you've come for now, what you would like, and what you would not like, as things move forward. I can also answer any questions, explain anything you'd like to know more about, and try to make sure we get the absolutely essential information that's needed to start setting the stage.

Then, we'll weigh the picture, and make a plan that makes sense to both of us.