All right, welcome back to the podcast. I am joined today with Joni Burns, Dr. Joni Burns,

a nurse practitioner, psychiatric nurse practitioner, who has been in private practice for five years.

She was coached by me for two and a half years and then came on my team

and sees patients in Florida and California. Joining with me as well is Adam Brecky. He is a

psychiatrist in private practice in my group in California and does tele-psychiatry and

tele-therapy. And so, yeah, welcome to the podcast. Thank you. And we are going to be going through

the five factors and domains of psychiatric care. So this is a holistic patient-centered

psychiatric care approach that we have spoken about in pieces throughout the podcast.

And Joni and I largely, largely Joni has worked on this handout, which will cite everything

that we're going to talk about today. And me and Joni meet once a week and I have been looking

at this with her for about a year, I would say, as we, you know, I get busy with everything else and

then we just would find one little piece of something we would want to add. So, briefly,

just to give you an idea of what we're going to talk about today, we're going to talk about

the five facets of good psychiatric care, including therapy, sleep, activity,

aka exercise, number four is nutrition, and number five is medication,

and the role of medication in the overall approach. So, Joni, tell me what gets you excited about

this approach in particular? Well, this is something I'm very passionate about and not only

try to share with colleagues, but also with patients in that there's not a singular approach

to psychiatric care. And we're looking at the whole body, the whole person when we're providing care.

And you know, medications is just a small piece of that, even if it may not even be appropriate

for some patients. So, let's find the specific pieces, specific tools for each patient,

what can we find to and and tweak to make their overall well-being better?

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