Kelly

Kelly

Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

Kelly, PMHNP. Psychiatric nurse practitioner at LiveWell Psychiatry & Men's Health. She spent years in high-acuity psych units from New Hampshire to Washington before joining LiveWell. Writes here about anxiety, trauma, crisis work, and what it actually looks like to sit across from a clinician who isn't running on autopilot.

22 posts by this author · Practice site & full bio

Clinical profile

Credentials

  • PMHNP
  • MSN
  • BSN
  • NPI 1861366932

Active licenses

  • Oregon 10051898
  • Washington AP70050596

Clinical focus

  • Psychiatry
  • ADHD
  • Adult ADHD
  • Depression
  • Mood disorders
  • Anxiety
  • Stress
  • Trauma
  • PTSD
  • Substance use disorders
  • Addiction
  • Insomnia
Treatment · 8 min read

Group Therapy: what actually happens in the room

Group therapy is the treatment I refer to most often and the one patients fight me hardest on. The fight is almost always the same: I don’t want…

Jun 4, 2025
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Treatment · 10 min read

Internal Family Systems (IFS)

IFS (internal family systems, the therapy model that asks the patient to relate to different aspects of himself as if they were distinct internal parts…

Jun 1, 2025
Prolonged Exposure for PTSD
Treatment · 9 min read

Prolonged Exposure for PTSD

Prolonged exposure is one of the two gold-standard treatments for PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder, the trauma-spectrum condition that follows certain…

May 27, 2025
You mad, bro?
Conditions · 8 min read

You mad, bro?

A lot of guys think anger is the problem because anger is the part everybody sees...

May 11, 2025
The Playlist Changed. So Did We.
Off Script · 8 min read

The Playlist Changed. So Did We.

There's probably a song you still know by heart that taught you something about love before you were old enough to question it. Not in some dramatic way.

Apr 16, 2025
Go with your Gut
Off Script · 8 min read

Go with your Gut

You probably know this feeling.

Mar 24, 2025
For the Elder Millenials, Gen X’rs, and Beyond
Off Script · 6 min read

For the Elder Millenials, Gen X’rs, and Beyond

Sometimes aging announces itself in the smallest possible way. Not with a dramatic milestone. Not with a birthday that suddenly changes everything.

Mar 17, 2025
988 and the gap between calling and getting help
Treatment · 9 min read

988 and the gap between calling and getting help

988 is better than 911 used to be for a mental health crisis, which is a low bar and a real improvement at the same time. It’s a…

Mar 10, 2025
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Treatment · 10 min read

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

DBT (dialectical behavior therapy, the skills-and-group approach that came out of Marsha Linehan's lab in the 1980s) got invented to treat patients with…

Feb 6, 2025
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Treatment · 9 min read

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy, the structured worksheet-and-homework kind, not the talk-about-your-mother kind) is the therapy with the most evidence…

Feb 4, 2025