Peplau's Ghost
Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioners (PMHNP) discussing using psychotherapy within their practice. Four PMHNP program directors and a biostatistician from across the Unites States sharing their passion on how psychotherapy can help people with nearly all their emotional problems.
Episodes
49 episodes
Peplau’s Psychotherapy Playbook with Dr Fatima Ramos-Marcuse
Someone reads your clinical notes and decides a child is “beyond repair.” Years later, that same kid is thriving, making art, keeping friends, and living a life that proves prognosis is not destiny. That tension between labels and lived outcome...
How Australia Is Expanding Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nursing with Nathan Dart
A psychiatric nursing system can add staff, add clinics, even add prescribing rights and still feel broken if the care stays fragmented. We sit down with Australian nurse leader Nathan Dart to get a grounded look at what is changing in mental h...
How Psychiatric NPs Turn Basics Into Healing by Dr Janine Panker
Lots of PMHNPs quietly carry the same worry: “I’m not a real therapist.” That belief doesn’t just shrink our scope, it also hides some of the most effective parts of psychiatric nursing. We sit down with Dr. Janine Panker, a Duke University alu...
Get Off The Stage And Stop Speed-Running Med Checks with Dr Julie Roebuck
If you’ve ever felt the squeeze to move faster, prescribe quicker, and save the “real conversation” for someone else, this one is for you. We talk with Dr. Julie Roebuck from the University of Virginia about what it actually takes to keep psych...
Psychotherapy Belongs In Every PMHNP Follow Up Visit with Dr Lauerer and Dr Robidoux
You can feel it in clinics everywhere: patients are more complex, therapy access is tighter, and a prescription alone rarely solves what’s actually driving the suffering. We talk with Dr. Joy Lauerer and Dr. Hannah Robidoux from the Medical Uni...
How AI, Leadership, And Kindness Can Transform Mental Health Care with Dr Rhonda Wilson and Dr Oliver Higgins
Policy shifts don’t happen in silence, and mental health nurses can’t afford to be invisible anymore. We sit down with Dr. Rhonda Wilson and Dr. Oliver Higgins to unpack how a global council of mental health nurses is claiming space at decision...
You Can’t Hide Success with Dr Kathleen McCoy
What if the most powerful tool in psychiatric care isn’t a prescription, but a relationship built with skill, ethics, and presence? We sit down with Dr. Kathleen McCoy to trace a career shaped by Hildegard Peplau’s interpersonal theory—from a 2...
How Two New Clinicians Prove Psychotherapy Works In Real-World Practice with Dr. Jirak and Dr. Hunt
What if the most powerful change in a “med check” isn’t the prescription, but the pause? We sit down with two newly minted PMHNPs who started in primary care and rural health, then shifted into psychiatry after seeing how often medication alone...
Peplau’s Core Of Steel with Dr Nancy Valentine
A cigarette rolled on a classroom desk. A challenge to choose steak over hamburger. That’s how Hildegard Peplau first hooked a young Nancy Valentine—and set a course for a lifetime of nursing influence, autonomy, and unapologetic change. We sit...
Why Treating People Like People Makes Recovery Possible with Dr Ann Roselle and Leslie Carpenter
What if stability starts with a warm relationship, a full fridge, and a Medicaid card—then the meds can do their job? We sit down with clinician Dr. Ann Roselle, DNP, and advocate Leslie Carpenter to unpack how serious mental illness care goes ...
From Navy Wards To CBT: A Psychiatric NP’s Rule Book For Care with Dr Pam Wall
What if the most powerful clinical upgrade is the simplest one: clean your station, fix sleep, and show up prepared to do therapy that fits the brain in front of you? We sit down with Dr. Pam Wall—Navy veteran, psychiatric nurse practitioner, p...
Guardians Of The Therapeutic Relationship with Dr Hugh McKenna
What happens to psychiatric mental health nursing when the job is squeezed into a prescriber’s chair and the classroom forgets its own theory? We sit down with Dr. Hugh McKenna to unpack a global reality: staffing shortages, overextended facult...
From Navy Psych Tech To Nurse Leader: What Truly Heals In Mental Health with Dr Sean Convoy
The number that surprised us wasn’t just the downloads. It was how clearly the most-played conversations pointed to one idea: listening changes more than medication ever could. We close the year with a wide-angle reflection and a deep dive into...
Therapy Is Not Hogwarts, But It’s Still Magic You Can Measure with Dr Melissa Chapman-Haynes
What if the most powerful part of therapy is the space between the boxes on our diagrams—the arrows where trust lives and change begins? We invited researcher and evaluator Dr. Melissa Chapman-Hayes to sit in the guest chair and talk candidly a...
Rethinking ECT Through Lived Experience With Sarah Hancock
What happens when a treatment designed to help may also carry injuries we rarely measure? We sit down with Sarah Price Hancock, co-founder and trustee of the Ionic Injury Foundation, to unpack ionic injury as a physiologic framework for underst...
How Curiosity, Not Magic Bullets, Helps People Heal with Marcus Evans
What if the most powerful tool in mental health isn’t a pill or a protocol, but disciplined curiosity? We sit down with Marcus Evans—psychoanalyst, longtime ps...
Finding The Human In Fast-Paced Psychiatry with Dr Shawn Gallagher
A busy inpatient hallway, a tight clock, and a patient who needs more than a prescription—this is where the art of psychiatric nursing matters most. We sit down with Dr. Shawn Gallagher, a dual-certified PMHNP and FNP, former ISPN president, an...
Seven C’s, No Seasickness: How a Navy nurse (Dr. Richard Westphal) built a peer-support model that actually works
A sailor on a dark deck, a torn letter, and a young corpsman learning to spot distress without a sound—that’s where our conversation begins. From that simple observation grew Stress First Aid, a peer-driven framework that replaces stigma with l...
From Seventh-Grade Sybil to Somatic: Dr. Sara Jones on Psychotherapy, Nursing Leadership, and Changing Systems
What if the most powerful change in mental health care happens in the space between two people—guided by skill, grounded in science, and held with genuine regard? That’s where we go with Dr. Sara Jones, a psychiatric mental health nurse practit...
Nursing Bridges the Gap When Therapists Aren't Available
What happens when mental health patients can't afford therapists, lack access, or have nowhere to turn? Enter the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, uniquely positioned to bridge critical gaps in our mental health system.In t...
Nurses are doing psychotherapy whether they know it or not with Dr Celeste Foster
Dr. Celeste Foster shares her journey into psychodynamic practice and how her work with children experiencing medically unexplained symptoms led her to pursue specialized training in adolescent psychotherapy at the Tavistock Clinic.• Or...
Therapy Flows Like Honey Over a Honeycomb with Shana Trahan
What makes therapy truly effective? Is it the therapist's expertise, the specific methodology, or something else entirely? Shana Trahan brings a refreshing perspective to these ques...
From Pill-Slinging to Soul-Healing: One Nurse's Journey
What if psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners could practice in a way that truly transforms lives instead of just managing symptoms? Dr. Brooke Finley joins us to share her remarkable journey from traditional nursing to psychoanalytic p...
What Makes a Nurse Therapist Unique? Finding Your Voice in Mental Healthcare with Dr Howard Butcher
When Dr. Howard Butcher discovered a brochure about psychiatric nursing while studying biology, it changed the trajectory of his life. "I didn't know nurses could be therapists," he recalls, setting him on a path that would lead to becoming bot...
Similarities Within Differences: A Conversation with Dr. Beth Phoenix
Dr. Beth Phoenix, the 2023 APNA Psych Nurse of the Year and APNA past president, shares her insights on psychotherapy in nursing practice, challenging traditional views and advocating for a more flexible, pragmatic approach that extends beyond ...