I am a psychiatric and mental health nurse practitioner. I hold a Doctor of Nursing degree from the University of North Florida. I am board certified through American Nurses Credentialing Center as a Family Nurse Practitioner and Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP). I specialize in behavioral health, treating children and adults with diverse psychiatric and mental illnesses. I am passionate about providing quality, compassionate, and comprehensive mental health services to adolescents and adults. I possess strong clinical skills, enhanced by a natural ability to build rapport with patients and families. I use evidence-based guidelines blended with clinical experience, personal observation, and intuition to treat my clients
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
I want to know about what brings you for treatment, as well as some background information like previous treatments and medication, hospitalizations, non-psychiatric medications (prescription, over the counter, alternative, supplements, and home remedies), allergies, family psychiatric history, substance use/abuse history, suicide history, violence, trauma/abuse, social history including residence, level of education, employment, and your support system I will do Mental status examination.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
Empathy, knowledgeable/broad understanding of diagnosis, conscientious, lifelong learner, great communication skills, and ability to deal with difficult emotions
Describe the client(s) you are best positioned to serve.
Depression Bipolar disorder and other mood disorders Anxiety disorders, including panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and phobias. Eating disorders Personality disorders Post-traumatic stress disorder Psychotic disorders, including schizophrenia. ADHD/PTSD evaluation
About Ola Olaleye
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Supportive
Supportive therapy addresses psychiatric issues as well as extra-psychic problems, such as abuses of power in relationships, poverty of spirit and the overwhelming coping capacities of clients. The therapy treats negative symptoms and improves self-esteem, ego functions, and adaptive skills. The approach considers patient’s limitations including negative character structure, poor defense mechanisms, impaired reality testing, decreased cognitive functioning, lower IQ, learning disabilities as well as life circumstances including lower levels of education, low socioeconomic status, and limited social support system. I use supportive therapy in practice to bridge out social isolation and marginalization through therapeutic alliance and collaborative discussion to decreases power differential which reduces anxiety, support the patient’s healthy defenses, and enhances adaptive skills. Supportive therapy establishes therapeutic alliance that preserves the authority of the client and ensures that the client is active in their treatment. Supportive psychotherapy uses less of the expressive therapies that seek to accomplish change through exploration of previously unrecognized feelings, thoughts, needs, and conflicts, and development of insight. I use the therapeutic approach to support client’s self-esteem and question defenses only when they are maladaptive while treating client with honesty and respect. In practice, educating client and family members about their illness, potential, limitations and establishing realistic goals reduce stress and anxiety, and help client and the family improve their adaptive skills. Limit setting, reward and punishment with children is a necessary approach in supportive therapy. I help clients and others involved in their care to understand their functional and cognitive limitations.