MY approach
After years inside the traditional mental health industry, I built my brand, on one belief: real care goes beyond the clinical. I take the time to actually know my patients and community, their style, their habits, their aspirations, and I build treatment around who they are, not just what's on a chart. Somewhere along the way, I realized my work couldn't stay contained inside a therapy room. I kept seeing people regulate, release, and reconnect through things psychiatry rarely talks about: music, style, confidence, community. I stopped treating those as separate from my work. They became the work.
My work supports high performing professionals, artists, DJs, creatives, and through personalized mental wellness, speaking, music, and elevated experiences designed to help people feel calm, confident, connected, and fully themselves.
That is why I move between psychiatry, sound, and culture instead of staying in one lane.
Through Give Yourself Permission™, I bring that same care to confidence, beauty, identity, and reinvention, speaking to the people I meet like a good friend who also happens to be a psychiatrist. I bring the full experience to corporations, retreats, and events, because I believe mental wellness can be premium and alive, not just clinical.
I am not a psychiatrist who happens to DJ, or a confident voice who happens to have an MD. I am building something that did not exist before: a practice where neuroscience meets culture, where healing does not only happen in a therapy room, and where every person I meet, whether in a private session, on a dance floor, or through a permission slip, is invited to become exactly who they are meant to be.
Get to Know Me:
Scottsdale born and raised. This city is home, and it shaped the way I see community, wellness, and what a truly elevated life can look like. I completed my residency in psychiatry at the University of Arizona, which let me build my career in the same state that raised me and gave me a deep foundation in psychiatric evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment.
Mother first. Everything I build, my practice, my brand, my late night sets, comes from wanting to show my kids what it looks like to live fully and unapologetically as yourself.
Music has always been my language. Long before Dr. Vie™️ existed, music was how I processed, released, and connected. Now it is part of how I heal others too.
Entrepreneur at heart, over a decade in the making. I did not just want to practice psychiatry the traditional way. Across more than ten years, I have worked in administrative, consultation liaison, geriatric, community, and outpatient psychiatry, and I still work as a mental health business consultant and physician executive with the University of Arizona, Phoenix College of Medicine.
MBA, because business is part of the mission. Understanding strategy and structure is what let me turn a passion for whole person care into an actual practice, and eventually into a brand.
Fashion is not superficial to me. What I wear is communication. It is confidence before I speak a word, and I want the people I work with to feel that same permission. I have a refined appreciation for designer fashion, and I love keeping up with trends and losing myself in a good runway show.
I never stop learning. In quieter moments, I chase intellectual curiosity through new subjects and thought provoking series, small habits that keep feeding the same growth I try to bring to my patients.
Mind wellness is the thread through everything. Whether I am in a session, behind the decks, or writing a permission slip, the goal is the same: help people regulate, reconnect, and come home to themselves.
At the center of all of it is one belief. Healing does not only happen in a therapy room. It can happen through sound, beauty, movement, conversation, confidence, community, and permission. I built my life around proving that.
