I Know What It Feels Like
Because I’ve been in your exact shoes.
When I graduated from my DNP program and started seeing patients, I thought I’d feel ready. I didn’t. I remember sitting in my car after my first solo shift, replaying every clinical decision, wondering if I’d made the right call. The imposter syndrome was relentless. I was Googling medication dosages between patients, spending three hours on notes that should have taken thirty minutes, and going home feeling like I was failing — even though my patients were doing well.
I navigated my own journey through ADHD, anxiety, and depression while building a career and raising a family.
And I realized: the problem wasn’t me. It was that no one had given me the real-world systems, mentorship, and support I needed to bridge the gap between school and practice.
Because every PMHNP deserves a mentor who actually gets it.
Why I Do This
The gap between PMHNP education and clinical practice is real — and it’s not your fault. Most programs prepare you to pass the boards, not to confidently manage a complex patient panel on your own. I created the PsychNP Bootcamp and The Prescriber’s Playbook because I believe new and early-career psychiatric nurse practitioners deserve more than being thrown into the deep end.
You deserve structured mentorship from someone who has walked your exact path — not a psychiatrist teaching down, but a peer who built herself up. Someone who understands the unique pressures of being an NP: the scope-of-practice questions, the imposter syndrome, the isolation. My mission is to make clinical confidence feel achievable, not intimidating. To give you the frameworks for better psych care and the support system to sustain a career you actually love.
Calm Confidence Over Perfection
Clinical excellence doesn’t mean never making a mistake — it means having the systems, knowledge, and support to make sound decisions under pressure. I teach practical confidence rooted in real-world psychiatry, not theoretical perfection.
Ethical Practice, Always
Every recommendation I make is grounded in evidence-based care and ethical practice. I’ll never teach you shortcuts that compromise patient safety. Your license and your patients’ trust are sacred.
Community Over Competition
Psychiatry can feel isolating, especially as a new provider. I believe in building each other up — through case consultation, peer support, and honest conversations about what this work actually looks like. You’re not meant to do this alone.
From Overwhelmed New Grad to PMHNP Educator
My path to becoming a PMHNP educator wasn’t a straight line — and that’s exactly what makes me the right mentor for you. I started my nursing career at ASU Health Services as a community health nurse, where I fell in love with the intersection of mental health and whole-person care. I knew I wanted to specialize, so I pursued my Doctorate of Nursing Practice and board certification as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner.
After graduation, I launched Klear Care — an integrative psychiatric practice in Arizona focused on personalized, preventive mental health care.
Building a practice from scratch taught me everything they don’t teach in school: how to structure evaluations efficiently, set boundaries with patients, manage controlled substance requests, and create documentation systems that protect your license without consuming your life. But the more I practiced, the more I noticed a pattern.
Building the Support System
Psychiatric NPs Deserve
New PMHNPs were reaching out — overwhelmed, undersupported, and questioning whether they’d made the right career choice. They weren’t struggling because they weren’t smart enough. They were struggling because no one had given them the bridge between textbook knowledge and clinical reality. So I built that bridge. The PsychNP Bootcamp was born from real clinical experience, real mistakes, and real solutions.
Today, I’m also the Arizona APNA Chapter President, a published contributor to Psychiatric Times, co-founder of the Psych NP Network, and co-host of the “Two Psych NPs in a Pod” podcast. Everything I do comes back to one mission: helping psychiatric nurse practitioners build sustainable careers rooted in confidence, competence, and community.
Arizona APNA Chapter President
Published in Psychiatric Times
Co-Founder, Psych NP Network
DNP, PMHNP-BC
25 ANCC/CE Contact Hours
Hundreds of PMHNPs Mentored
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