Traditional psychiatry, for all its scientific brilliance, often misses the heart. It forgets that people aren’t problems to fix—they are stories to be heard, souls longing to heal.
Being seen isn’t about attention. It’s about presence. It’s about feeling known in your mess and your magic. In psychiatry, we take histories. But we often miss the soul. What if healing started with a photograph and a question like: “What do you see when you look at yourself today?”
Nurse Practitioners make a promise, that every piece of knowledge absorbed and applied has been rigorously examined, tested, and refined. When we walk into a patient’s room, we are not guessing—we are practicing with confidence, backed by science.
PMHNP student with plans to specialize in Child & Adolescent Telepsychiatry and Integrative Psychiatry, I often find myself straddling two worlds: the science of psychiatric diagnosing and the art of understanding the human experience.
