Welcome to Jennifer Maxine Psychiatry. Led by Jennifer Maxine Cappel, a dual board-certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and Family Nurse Practitioner with over 7 years of experience. Her unique expertise in both mental health and primary care allows an integrative, individualized approach to your mental well-being. Jennifer Maxine Psychiatry offers help treating conditions such as depression, anxiety, trauma, personality disorders, and substance abuse. Recognizing there is not a “one size fits all” solution, her therapeutic alliance is built on trust, empathy, and discovering what works best for you. Our evidence-based services include medication management, psychotherapy, and integrative approaches. With a comprehensive range of modalities, we provide transformative care to help you navigate life's challenges, foster resiliency, and unlock your full potential. Experience healing and growth for a fulfilling life and mental well-being. Whether this is your first step, or you’ve been down this path before, we invite you to begin your journey with us today.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
In their first session clients can expect to share their goals for their mental health as well as their struggles and their strengths. Clients will talk about their life experiences, as well as their experiences with mental health care in the past to learn what has worked for them (and even what hasn't) in order to begin to formulate a plan together for their path forward toward their goals.
What treatment methods and tools do you utilize?
Medication management may only be one part of the path to healing; Psychotherapy, identifying and building on your own strengths, learning new coping skills, identifying negative automatic thoughts or cognitive distortions and incorporating other treatment modalities into your mental health care often can make all the difference. Genetic Testing and Psychological testing are available for targeted treatment.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
I work with clients who may be suffering from anxiety or depression and feel hopeless. I work with clients who may find their lives feel overwhelming, who are experiencing life stressors, problems with their most important relationships, are using coping methods that aren't helping them anymore or struggling with substance use. My goal is to help them find and implement solutions that work. "Those mountains you've been carrying, you were only meant to climb"
Describe the client(s) you are best positioned to serve.
I get a lot of clients who tell me that this is the first time they felt like they weren't rushed and felt like their provider actually cared. I enjoy working with clients who are in the midst of big life changes (divorce, breakups, loss, serious illness) or who want to make life changes and want help navigating them or healing from them. My client type actually varies quite a bit, and that is great because I enjoy helping all kinds of people, but I would say that people who are looking for a solution, people who really want to be "ok" and people who have had difficulties in life but keep going (even if they can't recognize that they do) are definitely "my people".