• Holistic Psychiatric Care for Neurodivergent Women

    Leading with botanical medicine and carrying the prescription pad, so you never have to choose.

    Board-certified in both psychiatry and advanced practice holistic nursing so your care can be fully botanical, fully pharmaceutical, or beautifully both.

  • The Integrative Mental Wellness & ReLeaf Clinic is a holistic mental health practice for women and teens, offering herbal medicine prescribing, nutritional psychiatry, and culinary art therapy - with the full prescriptive authority to add or transition to conventional psychiatric medication whenever your healing needs it.

    You deserve care that starts with the earth.

    Dr. Patterson's Media Features:

    The Kelly Clarkson Show · Black Enterprise

    Medscape · American Psychiatric Nurses Association

    Caresource · Atlanta News First · Minority Nurse Magazine

    Care for the Woman Who Was Never Quite Seen

    Holistic psychiatry for women, including the neurodivergent-curious.

    You've tried the conventional route. Maybe it helped. Maybe it didn't. Maybe you left every appointment feeling like your symptoms were heard, but you never were.

    Maybe you've spent years being told it was anxiety, or depression, or stress. And maybe, quietly, you've started to wonder if something deeper was missed. That everything felt harder for you than it seemed to be for everyone else, and no one could ever tell you why.

    Or maybe you're drawn to herbal and natural medicine, but nervous about giving up the safety of a clinician who can prescribe if you need it.

    What if you didn't have to choose?

    This might be your kind of care if:

    • You've been told it's "just anxiety" but it never fully fit
    • You're wondering if you might be autistic or have ADHD
    • You want natural options without losing the safety of a prescriber
    • You're tired of being treated as a checklist instead of a person

    At The Integrative Mental Wellness & ReLeaf Clinic, I bring together two rare kinds of training: Board-Certified Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner and Board-Certified Advanced Practice Holistic Nurse. That means you get rigorous psychiatric care that leads with botanical medicine, culinary healing, and creative therapy, backed by the full authority to prescribe when your care calls for it.

    I lead with botanicals. I lead with food. I lead with presence and deep listening.

    Because I carry the prescription pad, you never have to be referred out, start over with a new clinician, or choose between holistic and conventional care.

    This matters even more if you're exploring whether you might be neurodivergent. So many women reach their 30s, 40s, and beyond before anyone recognizes their autism or ADHD. They were simply told they were anxious, sensitive, or too much. Here, you are met as a whole person, and we look deeper than the surface label.

    Your treatment plan might be entirely herbal. It might blend botanicals and medication. It might begin with pharmaceuticals and transition to herbs over time. Whatever your path, it stays in one trusted pair of hands. Mine.

    Not sure what's driving how you feel?

  • The Mental Wellness ReLeaf Way

    Experience four pathways to mental releaf.

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    Herbal

    Psychiatric Care

    You'll receive a comprehensive psychiatric evaluation, followed by an individualized herbal treatment plan designed specifically for your mind, your body, and your life stage. Every botanical recommendation is evidence-informed, custom formulated, carefully dosed, and closely monitored. Your herbal medicine prescription is filled by a compounding pharmacy and mailed to your home.

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    Integrated Medication Management

    Because I'm a fully licensed psychiatric nurse practitioner, I can prescribe conventional psychiatric medication whenever it's clinically needed as a complement to herbal medicine, as a bridge during transitions, or as a standalone treatment. You'll never be sent elsewhere for a prescription. Your complete psychiatric care stays under one roof.

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    Nutritional Psychiatry

    Food is medicine, and your kitchen is your pharmacy. Through one-on-one culinary medicine consultations, we'll explore how what you eat directly shapes how you feel and build a personalized, sustainable, delicious plan to feed your mental health from the inside out.

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    Culinary Art Therapy

    Healing doesn't only happen in a therapy chair. In our therapeutic cooking sessions, women come together to cook, create, and connect. Our signature 12-week "Nourish" group program uses cooking as vehicles for emotional processing, self-discovery, and community.

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    This Practice Was Built for You If...

    Services are delivered through secure virtual care in MD, NM, AZ, DC, FL, NV, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
    • You're a woman struggling with anxiety, depression, trauma, PMDD, perimenopausal mood changes, postpartum mood disorders, or chronic stress related to trying to navigate society as a neurodivergent individual
    • You want a mental health provider who understands both psychiatry and plant medicine
    • You've been curious about herbal alternatives but want a clinician who can also prescribe medication if needed so you never fall through the cracks
    • You're currently on psychiatric medication and want to explore herbal alternatives with a provider who can safely guide the transition
    • You want the flexibility of a treatment plan that can move between botanical and pharmaceutical approaches as your needs change
    • You believe that how you nourish yourself matters as much as what's on your treatment plan
    • You're craving community, creativity, and a deeper connection to your healing
    • You're done feeling like a diagnosis and ready to feel like a whole person

  • Why This Practice Is Different

    Most holistic practitioners can't prescribe medication.
    Most psychiatric prescribers are not trained in botanical medicine.
    I'm both.

    That means:
    - If herbs are enough, beautiful. We go deep with plants, food, and healing.
    - If you need medication, I prescribe it myself. No referral. No waiting. No starting over.
    -If you want both, I create an integrated plan and monitor everything together, screening for interactions and optimizing both modalities.
    -If you want to discontinue medication, I guide the taper while building your botanical foundation, so you're never left without support.

    This is truly integrative care. Not either/or, but the full spectrum, in one trusted relationship.

  • Meet Your Nurse Practitioner



    I'm a Board-Certified Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and a Board-Certified Advanced Practice Holistic Nurse. I built this practice because I believe women deserve mental health care that honors the wisdom of the body, the power of plants, and the medicine of the table.

    Joanne Patterson, DNP, MSN, PMHNP-BC, APHN-BC

  • You Are In The Right Place

    Whether you're coming in with a bottle of supplements and a thousand questions, a medication list you want to reconsider, or simply a feeling that there has to be a better way, you belong here.

    The first step is a consultation. A real conversation about who you are, what you're carrying, and what nourishment looks like for you.
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