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.

277 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

Panic Treatment
Treatment · 7 min read

Panic Treatment

A practical guide to treating panic disorder with CBT, interoceptive exposure, medication, and fewer rescue rituals.

Apr 1, 2026
Pregabalin (Lyrica)
Medications · 7 min read

Pregabalin (Lyrica)

Pregabalin is gabapentin's better-looking, more expensive cousin.

Mar 31, 2026
OCD Treatment
Treatment · 6 min read

OCD Treatment

A practical guide to OCD treatment, exposure and response prevention, medication, reassurance traps, and when to get specialty care.

Mar 29, 2026
Vivitrol (extended-release naltrexone)
Medications · 8 min read

Vivitrol (extended-release naltrexone)

Vivitrol is naltrexone in a syringe, given once a month in your butt. That's the whole pitch.

Mar 28, 2026
Naltrexone for alcohol
Medications · 9 min read

Naltrexone for alcohol

Naltrexone is the medication that gets prescribed more than any other for alcohol use disorder in clinics that actually know what they're doing, and it's…

Mar 26, 2026
Prescription Education: Know What’s Actually in That Bottle
Medications · 11 min read

Prescription Education: Know What’s Actually in That Bottle

Most med checks hand you a script and skip the useful part. You still need to know the name, dose, timeline, side effects, generic issues, taper rules, and when to…

Mar 26, 2026
Seroquel (quetiapine)
Medications · 8 min read

Seroquel (quetiapine)

Seroquel is the antipsychotic that gets prescribed for everything other than what it's actually approved for, and the off-label sleep use is the biggest…

Mar 24, 2026
Statins
Medications · 6 min read

Statins

Statins cut events when the risk is real. The decision should come from your risk numbers and the side effects you can actually live with, not vibes.

Mar 24, 2026
Microdosing: what controlled trials actually show
Treatment · 8 min read

Microdosing: what controlled trials actually show

The honest answer on microdosing is that the controlled trials don't show much, the open-label data shows a lot, and the difference between those two…

Mar 22, 2026
Ibogaine: Real Promise, Real Risk
Off Script · 5 min read

Ibogaine: Real Promise, Real Risk

Ibogaine might be the strangest substance in the whole psychedelic treatment conversation, because the promise is real and the risk is real and they sit…

Mar 21, 2026
Online ADHD clinics & the regulatory crackdown
Treatment · 8 min read

Online ADHD clinics & the regulatory crackdown

Done and Cerebral are the two names everybody remembers from the great pandemic ADHD telehealth boom, and the story of what happened to them is most of…

Mar 20, 2026
Ayahuasca for Depression: Promising, Strange, and Still Early
Off Script · 5 min read

Ayahuasca for Depression: Promising, Strange, and Still Early

Ayahuasca has a real but early depression signal. The hard part is separating clinical research from retreat hype and real safety risk.

Mar 18, 2026