Bethanie Simmons-Becil is a dedicated Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and educator. She has over fourteen years’ experience with providing evidence-based, holistically focused mental health care to multiple patient populations. Bethanie is the Director of the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner program and Assistant Professor with the University of North Florida with specialty in psychopharmacology and neuroanatomy. Her university research foci include integration of evidence based holistic interventions in nursing education, Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy implementation in depressive symptom remission, and use of combinatorial pharmacogenetics in advanced neuropsychiatry. Her ultimate desire is to provide her patients, students, and peers with research based, holistically focused, psychiatric management education and strategies for improving the mental health community.

In practice, she provides her clients a safe, comfortable environment through open, honest sharing of thoughts, feelings and needs and offers holistically informed psychiatric medication management and individual therapy. Bethanie has worked with a variety of populations across the lifespan including veterans, active duty, actively incarcerated, forensic, inpatient, outpatient, as well as state hospital mentally ill clients. She specializes in anxiety, depression, mania, and severe mental illness (SMI) including psychosis, dissociation, and trauma. She is trained and certified in psychiatric medication management across the lifespan, individual therapy, and advanced practice holistic intervention.

In the classroom, Bethanie is an engaging and dynamic educator. She engages students through humor and exuberance through complex neuroanatomy, neuropsychiatry, and mental health concepts. She also has experience in advanced practice nursing education, professional speaking, independent practice ownership.