Dr. Ragnar

Dr. Ragnar

Founder, DNP, PMHNP

Dr. Ragnar, DNP, PMHNP. Founder of LiveWell Psychiatry & Men's Health. Sees patients in Oregon and Washington for ADHD, depression, anxiety, addiction, and the long tail after sobriety. Anti-soft-validation, pro-actually-fixing-the-thing. Believes the goal of treatment isn't lifetime management, it's making himself unnecessary. Writes here for the guys who know there's something going on, but haven't figured out how to say it yet.

282 posts by this author · Practice site & full bio

Clinical profile

Credentials

  • DNP
  • PMHNP-BC
  • NPI 1780403915

Active licenses

  • Oregon 10034127
  • Washington AP61615356

Clinical focus

  • Psychiatry
  • Men's mental health
  • Men's health
  • ADHD
  • Adult ADHD
  • Depression
  • Mood disorders
  • Bipolar disorder
  • Anxiety
  • Panic disorder
  • OCD
  • PTSD

Education

Verified profiles

PTSD Treatment
Treatment · 11 min read

PTSD Treatment

PTSD is what happens when your brain encodes a memory wrong.

Jul 19, 2025
Licensure vs Certification: What Actually Defines Your Scope of Practice
Professionals · 15 min read

Licensure vs Certification: What Actually Defines Your Scope of Practice

Most of us came out of training knowing how to interview a patient, how to write a note, and how to talk a guy down off a bad week, and…

Jul 18, 2025
E&M Codes for Psych: Choosing the Right Level
Professionals · 15 min read

E&M Codes for Psych: Choosing the Right Level

Most psych clinicians are undercoding their visits, and it's not because they're being modest, it's because nobody taught them how E&M (evaluation and…

Jul 16, 2025
Stimulants Help Most People Focus. That Isn’t an ADHD Test.
Off Script · 14 min read

Stimulants Help Most People Focus. That Isn’t an ADHD Test.

The single most common ADHD diagnostic story I hear in the room goes like this...

Jul 13, 2025
Modafinil and the productivity stack
Off Script · 9 min read

Modafinil and the productivity stack

Modafinil is the drug a lot of guys in tech, finance, and the productivity-bro corners of the internet are taking off-label, often without a prescription,…

Jul 10, 2025
AI girlfriends and male loneliness
Off Script · 9 min read

AI girlfriends and male loneliness

The number of guys using Replika, Character.ai, and the half-dozen newer AI companion apps has gone vertical in the last couple of years, and it’s showing up in…

Jul 8, 2025
Anxiety Treatment
Treatment · 11 min read

Anxiety Treatment

The public conversation about anxiety treatment and the clinical reality have drifted about as far apart as it's possible for two conversations on the…

Jul 7, 2025
IV Skin and Beauty
Men's Health · 6 min read

IV Skin and Beauty

An IV skin-and-beauty drip is, almost without exception, a bag of saline with some combination of vitamin C, B vitamins, biotin, and (depending on the…

Jul 7, 2025
Ketamine Assisted Therapy
Treatment · 9 min read

Ketamine Assisted Therapy

Ketamine-assisted therapy is what it sounds like.

Jul 6, 2025
Decline of male friendship after 40
Off Script · 9 min read

Decline of male friendship after 40

The data on this is what it sounds like.

Jul 5, 2025
Jonathan Haidt’s Anxious Generation: what’s right and overstated
Off Script · 9 min read

Jonathan Haidt’s Anxious Generation: what’s right and overstated

Haidt’s argument in The Anxious Generation is that smartphones and social media, hitting kids hard around 2012, broke teen mental health. The data on adolescent depression and anxiety…

Jul 3, 2025
Men’s Mental Health: Why Asking for Help Feels Impossible
Treatment · 13 min read

Men’s Mental Health: Why Asking for Help Feels Impossible

You already know something's off, and you've probably known for a while... months, maybe years.

Jul 1, 2025