Hi, I’m Laura LaMonica, a psychiatric nurse practitioner in Virginia working to improve access to ACTUAL psychiatric care, the kind that provides evaluations, testing, maybe even deprescribing if needed (reducing the amount of medications that can make you feel worse).

And did I mention collaboration by helping you build the best team with referrals to occupational therapists, speech therapists, and talk therapists by explaining the different types of therapy and what would work best for you!

But wait, there’s more! How about real life interventions like working with parents and students on navigating the IEP (individual education plan) process or accommodations in higher education, genetic testing if needed, and YES, maybe some psychiatric meds prescribed the right way.