Your career is thriving.You might not be.
A future psychiatric practice for professionals and executives navigating ADHD, burnout, anxiety, depression, and substance-use concerns.
Careful evaluation. Evidence-based treatment. A clinical approach built for people whose lives don't pause for appointments.
I am a registered nurse currently completing graduate education in psychiatric-mental health nursing, with an expected graduation in 2027. I am not yet accepting new clients or offering PMHNP services. This page describes the practice I am building toward, and will serve as a reference for professionals seeking care when I am licensed to practice.
What high performers miss about their own mental health.
- The executive who can run a company but can't quiet their mind at eleven at night.Read this →
- The physician who can steady a trauma bay but can't steady their own sleep.Read this →
- The attorney who prepares flawlessly for trial and cannot make the rest of their life hold together.Read this →
- The founder whose periods of high productivity sometimes become exhausting or unsustainable.Read this →
- The professional who has compensated for ADHD for fifteen years and is exhausted by the machinery required to do it.Read this →
- The high achiever who has been calling it burnout for a year and has stopped getting better with rest.Read this →
- The person whose use of alcohol, stimulants, or cannabis has quietly become harder to control.Read this →
Success can conceal suffering.
My clinical focus areas.
I'm focusing my graduate training and clinical hours on these specific areas. They represent my specialty, not a complete list of everything I can treat.
ADHD & Executive Function
Do you lose track of time? Struggle to start tasks? Have trouble managing your emotions? Or have you spent years hiding all this from everyone around you? Many high-achievers deal with all of this while their resume shows none of it. 7 articles
Read the writing →Sleep & Burnout
Running on too little sleep, exhaustion that a vacation doesn't fix, and the strain of demanding schedules. Sometimes it's burnout. Sometimes it's a treatable condition wearing the same clothes. 3 articles
Read the writing →Anxiety & Perfectionism
Anxiety, panic, perfectionism, and the exhaustion that comes from constantly worrying and making decisions based on fear. 6 articles
Read the writing →Mood & Depression
Depression, bipolar disorder, burnout, and sleep disruption — when low mood is the primary presenting concern. 8 articles
Read the writing →Medication & Treatment
What starting an antidepressant actually feels like, what stimulants do and do not fix, why a medication stops working, and how to come off one safely. 6 articles
Read the writing →Pain & Psychiatric Care
Pain is subjective — there is no test that measures it. That makes psychiatric care and pain inseparable, and makes being believed part of the treatment. 5 articles
Read the writing →Mental Health & Substance Use
Alcohol, stimulants, cannabis, and prescription medications, assessed alongside mood, attention, and sleep rather than treated as a separate problem for a separate clinician. 4 articles
Read the writing →Trauma & ICU Psychiatric Care
ICU delirium, PTSD after critical illness, and psychiatric recovery in survivors — grounded in direct experience with severe illness and what comes after. 4 articles
Read the writing →Serious Mental Illness
Long-term support for serious conditions like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder with hallucinations or delusions. I'm honest about whether office-based care is right for you, or if hospital-level care is needed instead. 3 articles
Read the writing →Not sure any of these describe you?
Fifteen further pieces on what a psychiatric evaluation actually involves, when it’s worth having one, and why capable people find it unusually hard to ask — including the professions where asking is hardest.
Ready to start?
The practice opens in 2028. Join the notification list and I will let you know when I am taking patients — or send a note if you would rather just ask a question.
Why I came to psychiatry through the ICU.
My nursing career began in emergency medical services and moved through long-term acute care, cardiac telemetry, and neurocritical care at a Level I trauma center. Critically ill patients teach you to notice small changes early, to think about brain and body as one system, and to stay methodical when a situation stops being simple.
I am now completing graduate education in psychiatric-mental health nursing. The long-term goal is to bring that same discipline to outpatient psychiatric care for adults carrying significant professional responsibility.
- Emergency Medical TechnicianPrehospital care • 2 years
- ICU Patient Care TechnicianCritical care • COVID-19 pandemic surge, 2020–2021
- Licensed Practical NurseLong-term acute care • 2 years
- Nursing Home SupervisorOver 1 year
- Registered NurseCardiac telemetry • Level II trauma center • 1 year
- Registered NurseNeuro ICU • Level I trauma center • Over 2 years
- Master of Science in Nursing — in progressPsychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) program • Chamberlain University
MSN nurse practitioner core — complete
- NR-581NP Foundational Concepts for Advanced Nursing Practice
- NR-582NP Leadership and Role Development
- NR-583NP Informatics for Advanced Nursing Practice
- NR-584NP Quality and Safety for Advanced Nursing Practice
- NR-585NP Research Methods and Evidence-Based Practice
- NR-586NP Population Health and Epidemiology
Advanced practice core — in progress now
- — Advanced Pathophysiology
- — Advanced Pharmacology
Psychiatric specialty sequence — ahead
- — Advanced Psychopharmacology
- — Advanced Physical Assessment
- — Advanced Psychiatric Assessment, with an in-person immersion in Chicago
Clinical practicum — ahead
- — Five clinical courses • 625 supervised hours across roughly 10 months
16 courses total • 625 supervised clinical hours • expected completion 2027, licensure anticipated 2028
What this practice is being built to be — and not to be.
- One-size-fits-all treatment
- Rushing a complicated psychiatric history
- Assuming productivity means someone is well
- Treating substance use as somebody else's problem
- Reducing a person to a diagnostic code
- Promising that medication alone will fix it
- Careful, unhurried assessment
- Evidence-based treatment
- Honest conversations about trade-offs
- Medication as one tool among several
- Coordination with the rest of your care
- Long-term thinking about stability
The sequence, start to steady state.
This describes how I intend to structure care once I am licensed and practicing. Specifics will follow my scope, credentialing, and practice policies at that time.
Initial evaluation
A comprehensive review of symptoms, medical and psychiatric history, medications, substance use, sleep, functioning, and what you actually want to be different.
Diagnostic formulation
Understanding what is happening — and what else could explain it — before committing to a treatment plan.
Individualized treatment
Medication, psychotherapy, behavioral strategies, sleep intervention, referral, or some combination, depending on the clinical picture.
Ongoing monitoring
Tracking symptoms, functioning, side effects, safety, and whether the plan is actually working.
Long-term strategy
The goal isn't getting through the next appointment. It's psychiatric stability you can sustain alongside the rest of your life.
You don't have to wait until something breaks.
I'm not accepting patients yet. If you'd like to know when the practice opens, leave an email address and I'll write when there's something worth telling you — not more often.
Planned pricing — not yet available. These fees describe the practice being built toward licensure in 2028. No appointments are being scheduled and no psychiatric services are currently offered.
Transparent, accessible psychiatric care in the Chicago area and greater Illinois.
Based in Chicago, serving professionals throughout Illinois and the Midwest. High-quality care shouldn't feel financially out of reach. All fees are cash-pay. No insurance billing, no surprise charges.
Concierge Retainer
$20,000
per year · small panel
Direct phone access, appointments within 48 hours, unlimited 60-minute visits, and coordination with your other physicians. For people whose schedules cannot wait.
Second Opinion Consultation
$600
90 minutes + records review
An independent look at a diagnosis made years ago or a regimen nobody has explained. You leave with a written formulation to bring back to your own clinician.
Initial Psychiatric Evaluation
$400
60–90 minutes
Comprehensive assessment, diagnosis, treatment plan, and recommendations. Available in-person in Chicago area.
Extended Follow-Up
$275
45–60 minutes
More time for complex situations, major life changes, or when you need deeper support. Chicago and Illinois.
Medication Management Follow-Up
$200
30 minutes
Monitor symptoms, review medication effectiveness, adjust treatment as needed. Chicago area and Illinois.
Free Consultation
$0
15 minutes
Discuss your concerns and find out if this practice is a good fit. Available throughout Illinois.
Why cash-pay, and what it actually changes
No claim is submitted to an insurer, so no diagnosis code is transmitted to one. Your diagnosis reflects clinical judgement rather than what a payer will reimburse, and no prior authorisation or visit limit decides how much care you get.
To be precise about the limits: a clinical record still exists, remains subject to subpoena or court order, and mandatory reporting applies regardless of payment method. Cash-pay is not anonymity. What it removes is the automatic transmission of your diagnosis to an insurance company as a condition of being treated.