“We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh
Patryce Bak, PMHNP-BC
As a holistic-minded psychiatric nurse practitioner with a background in Reiki and Animism, I consider the complexity of the mystery that is you, when supporting clients in their healing journey. My practice is based on the philosophy that the body’s inherent ability to heal itself can be tapped into with this holistic approach to healing, focused on addressing the needs of mind-body-spirit. My approach to health is rooted in integrative and naturopathic medicine principles. As a psychiatric provider, my toolkit includes conventional pharmacologic and herbal therapies. I support clients by providing medication management, ketamine assisted therapy, natural supplements, talk therapy–including IFS and Brainspotting modalities, and psychedelic medicine integration services.
Healing begins within
My pronouns are She/They and I am attuned to spiritual and somatic aspects of emotional dysregulation. I owe many of my strengths to a diversity of life experience, including having been a child-refugee, an artist, embodying non-duality, and more recently, a two-time cancer survivor. As a result of my own experience of trauma and multiple near-death experiences, I feel a strong calling to being of service to others, and a deep curiosity about consciousness, resilience, meaning-making and ultimate transcendence. In working together, it is my goal to support you in connecting with your essence and to assist you in accessing your inner-healing intelligence. Together, utilizing the MIND-BODY-SPIRIT medicine model, we will potentiate self-healing and lasting transformation.
Training
Vanderbilt University School of Nursing: Master of Science in Nursing, Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
Usui Reiki Ryoho Master Practitioner, International House of Reiki
Animist Minister ordained by Web of Life Church, Tucson, Arizona
Integrative Psychiatry Institute: Certified Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Provider
Polaris Insight Center: Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy
Certified Clinical Trauma Professional Level II: Complex Trauma
Gabor Maté, Compassionate Inquiry
Internal Family Systems Informed Practitioner
Brainspotting Level I Practitioner
Institute for Integrative Nutrition: Certified Holistic Health Coach
Specialties
Mood disorders
Anxiety/Panic
Depression
Bipolar
Trauma and dissociative disorders
Transgenerational (ancestral) trauma
ADHD
OCD
Grief
Spiritual Crisis + Transpersonal Concerns
Cancer Patients + Survivors
LGBTQIA2S+ Ally