David Fowope
Hi, I'm David Fowope, PMHNP-BC. I provide compassionate, evidence-based mental health care for children, adolescents, and adults experiencing anxiety, depression, ADHD, trauma, stress, mood disorders, and life transitions.
You don't have to face life's challenges alone—I would be honored to walk alongside you.
My approach combines psychiatry, psychotherapy, neuroscience, and practical life strategies to help you restructure unhelpful thinking, regulate emotions, build healthier habits, and create lasting change. Together, we'll develop a personalized plan so you can heal, grow, and flourish. You don't have to face life's challenges alone—I would be honored to walk alongside you.
First session
My approach combines psychiatry, psychotherapy, neuroscience, and practical life strategies to help you restructure unhelpful thinking, regulate emotions, build healthier habits, and create lasting change. Together, we'll develop a personalized plan so you can heal, grow, and flourish. You don't have to face life's challenges alone—I would be honored to walk alongside you.
Strengths
y approach combines psychiatry, psychotherapy, neuroscience, and practical life strategies to help you restructure unhelpful thinking, regulate emotions, build healthier habits, and create lasting change.
Ideal clients
During our appointment, we will explore: - When your symptoms began and what triggers them. - When they worsen or improve and what helps relieve them. - How they affect your daily functioning, relationships, driving, and career. - Your previous treatments and medical history, including your last routine physical examination. - Whether your emotional difficulties are related to anxiety, attention deficit, depression, insomnia, mild cognitive decline, past trauma, seasonal mood dysregulation, stress, workplace/academic anxiety, or other factors. - Which treatment options are safest and most appropriate for you.
Treatment methods
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
David Fowope, PMHNP-BC, utilizes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) techniques in his psychiatric practice to help clients recognize and change negative thought patterns and behaviors that contribute to emotional distress. During clinical encounters, he works collaboratively with clients to identify unhelpful beliefs, explore how their thoughts influence their emotions and actions, and develop healthier ways of responding to stressful situations. He uses cognitive restructuring, guided questioning, psychoeducation, behavioral activation, problem-solving, and coping-skills training to address symptoms of anxiety, depression, stress, and other psychiatric conditions. David encourages clients to challenge catastrophic thinking, negative self-perceptions, excessive worry, and self-defeating behaviors. He helps them establish realistic goals, develop positive daily routines, improve emotional regulation, and practice coping strategies between appointments. He integrates CBT-informed interventions with psychiatric evaluations, supportive psychotherapy, and medication management when clinically appropriate. His approach emphasizes active client participation, improved daily functioning, emotional resilience, and long-term symptom management.
Trauma-Informed Care
David Fowope incorporates Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) into his psychiatric practice by recognizing how past traumatic experiences can influence clients' emotional well-being, thought patterns, behaviors, relationships, and responses to treatment. During clinical encounters, he establishes a safe, supportive, respectful, and nonjudgmental environment where clients feel heard, understood, and empowered. He approaches clients with empathy, patience, and cultural sensitivity, recognizing that trauma may affect their ability to trust others, regulate emotions, and engage in treatment. David emphasizes **safety, trust, collaboration, empowerment, and client choice**. He allows clients to share traumatic experiences at their own pace without pressure to disclose distressing details. He actively listens, validates their emotional experiences, respects personal boundaries, and avoids interventions that could unnecessarily trigger or retraumatize them. He helps clients understand the relationship between past trauma and present symptoms, including anxiety, depression, hypervigilance, emotional dysregulation, avoidance, sleep disturbances, and interpersonal difficulties. Through psychoeducation, supportive psychotherapy, grounding techniques, emotional regulation strategies, and CBT-informed interventions, he assists clients in recognizing trauma-related responses and developing healthier coping mechanisms. David integrates trauma-informed principles into psychiatric assessment, individualized treatment planning, and medication management when clinically appropriate. He encourages shared decision-making, respects clients' autonomy, and collaborates with therapists and other healthcare professionals when specialized trauma-focused treatment is indicated. His treatment approach focuses on helping clients regain a sense of safety, strengthen emotional resilience, restore personal confidence, improve daily functioning, and develop healthier relationships. **His guiding principle is to understand not only the symptoms clients experience, but also how their life experiences may have contributed to those symptoms, while supporting recovery without judgment or retraumatization.**
Compassion-Focused
David Fowope incorporates Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT)-informed interventions into his psychiatric practice to help clients develop self-compassion, reduce self-criticism, overcome feelings of shame and inadequacy, and build healthier emotional responses to life's challenges. During clinical encounters, David establishes a warm, empathetic, supportive, and nonjudgmental therapeutic environment where clients feel respected, understood, and emotionally safe. He recognizes that many clients experiencing anxiety, depression, trauma, low self-esteem, and emotional distress struggle with harsh self-judgment, guilt, fear of failure, and negative self-perceptions. David helps clients identify patterns of excessive self-criticism and understand how these thoughts contribute to emotional suffering. Through compassionate dialogue, guided reflection, psychoeducation, and cognitive reframing, he encourages clients to replace harsh self-judgment with balanced, realistic, and supportive perspectives. He emphasizes **self-kindness, emotional acceptance, mindfulness, and recognition of personal strengths**. He helps clients understand that experiencing setbacks, making mistakes, or struggling with psychiatric symptoms does not diminish their worth or define their identity. David also incorporates compassion-focused techniques such as compassionate self-talk, grounding exercises, emotional regulation strategies, and perspective-taking. He encourages clients to respond to themselves with the same patience, understanding, and kindness they would extend to someone they care about. For clients affected by trauma, relationship difficulties, grief, or persistent feelings of inadequacy, David explores how past experiences may have shaped their self-perception and emotional responses. He helps them recognize these patterns, reduce shame, develop healthier boundaries, and cultivate greater emotional resilience. He integrates compassion-focused interventions with supportive psychotherapy, CBT-informed techniques, psychiatric assessment, and medication management when clinically appropriate. Treatment is individualized according to each client's symptoms, experiences, strengths, preferences, and therapeutic goals. David's approach emphasizes collaborative care, personal empowerment, improved self-esteem, emotional stability, and sustainable psychological well-being. He encourages clients to develop a compassionate relationship with themselves while taking meaningful steps toward recovery and improved daily functioning.
Location
Virtual sessions