The Story
Dr. Janine Inez is a board-certified Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner who graduated from Columbia University. She works with emergent adults, LGBTQ+, artists, and ALANA (African-American, Latinx, Asian, and Native American) populations offering combined psychotherapy and medication management. She specializes in psychedelics and narrative therapy for stress, trauma, spiritual exploration, and personal growth.
Dr. Inez is also a screenwriter, novelist, and poet. She also loves to meditate, forest bathe, and do yoga. Prior to nursing, Dr. Inez studied writing for screen and television in California. In 2018, she finished her first novel, and in 2022, she finished her second. In 2022, she also completed a poetry anthology. She’s been telling stories since she was eight years old, and now she is incredibly grateful that she gets to listen to them as a career.
The Approach
Dr. Inez’s upbringing and lived experience as a queer Black woman who is the child of Jamaican immigrants informs her deconstructive approach to mental healthcare. She has always been an advocate for social justice in her professional and academic career. She is committed to decentering the therapist and giving primary authorship to the consulting individual. She is aware of how stigmatizing and traumatic mental healthcare has been towards oppressed communities, and she attempts to undo some of that by stepping away from traditional medical model approaches. This becomes especially apparent in her work when it comes to diagnosis, treatment planning, and medication prescription. Dr. Inez believes a good therapist walks beside their client, or just a bit behind.
Education
Doctor of Nursing Practice, Psychiatric-Mental Health Speciality from Columbia University School of Nursing.
Master's of Science in Nursing from Columbia University School of Nursing.
Bachelor’s in Fine Arts in Writing for Screen & Television from University of Southern California: School of Cinematic Arts.
Janine has trained with Polaris Insight Center for KAP, and studied narrative therapy through the Evanston Family Center. She was certified for MDMA-assisted psychotherapy through MAPS on 7/13/2023. Janine is a certified SoulCollage® Facilitator trained under Dr. Isabel Phillips.
License #
New York: PMHNP-BC #404231, RN #801787
Oregon: #202213807NP-PP
California: NP #95028042
Collaborative Practice
Dr. Janine Inez collaborates with a team of psychiatrists, PMHNPs, psychologists, and mental health counselors for medication management, psychotherapy, and psychedelic offerings.
