Carlsen Psychiatric Care LLC

Helping People Heal

Welcome to Carlsen Psychiatric Care

Who I am Professionally

Welcome to my website. I’m what’s called a “seasoned” therapist. I have been practicing as an Advanced Practice Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse since 1982. My mission is to partner with patients to create their highest level of wellness. Sometimes this means a full recovery. Or this can mean managing chronic conditions to support a better quality of life. Illnesses are circumstances that humans cope with and not who they are.

I have full prescriptive authority and I am trained and practice with varying methods and models of therapy and medicine. Psychiatric medication alone rarely creates optimum mental health. Therapy alone can help create optimum health, but medication combined with therapy is more often the most effective. I offer medication management for patients who already have a counselor or offer psychotherapy in conjunction with medication management.

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Who I am Personally

I am a woman, a wife, a mother, a stepmother, a grandmother, a step-grandmother, a doggy mother, a sister, an aunt, a daughter, a best friend, a clinician, and this list goes on. These are all roles. Roles tell you part of who I am.

The Enneagram and the Myers Briggs Type Indicator reveal aspects of our personalities. IQ and EQ are measures of cognitive and emotional reasoning. These are descriptors. Descriptors tell you part of who I am. I am an Enneagram Type 4, also known as the Intense Creative. Type 4’s are deeply connected to emotions and seek to understand feelings in depth, are motivated to share their personal contribution with the world around them, are creative and imaginative and are sensitive and intuitive.

Type 4’s do not shy away from the suffering of others and are able to ask the tough questions for growth. On the Myers-Briggs I am an INFJ and we are referred to as the “Advocate.” We tend to approach life with a value on humanism are very intuitive and often misunderstood. These aspects of myself have allowed me to hone methods of connection.