Treatment Methods

As a Board Certified Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, Cheryl Marrs specializes in an integrative approach to treatment including conventional, holistic, and complementary/alternative interventions.  Her treatment philosophy centers around a collaborative approach towards achieving a better quality of life. She aims to minimize the use of medication and use her prescriptive authority in a realistic and practical way. 

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• Medication Management:

  • Full prescriptive authority specializing in psychotropic medications.  I do not prescribe benzodiazepines long term and will start a tapering schedule very soon after our first appointment if you have been taking these medications  for an extended time.  I believe they occasionally have a purpose, but they are also a 

    hindrance to learning that you innately have the ability to handle most of what life throws at you.

• Condition Related Laboratory Analysis and Interpretation​

Holistic Treatments

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy:
  Identify any thinking biases and use thought records to help correct disruptive thoughts and behavior. Usually used when treating mood disorders and anxiety.

• Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Skills:
  Examine dialects in our life that cause us discomfort. Uses mindfulness, distress tolerance, and radical acceptance to help manage mood disorders, dysfunctional behaviors, and maladaptive coping skills.

• Insight-Oriented Therapy:
  Helps to understand how beliefs, thoughts, feelings, and experiences from the past can impact current behaviors.

• Exposure Therapy:
  A form of treatment used with various anxiety disorders to help confront fears and decrease the power the fear holds.

• Sleep Hygiene:
  Used to treat various kinds of insomnia without medications. Examines circadian rhythms and sleep habits/patterns.

• Solution-Focused Therapy:
  This is a brief intervention to solve specific problems. Examines “Why Now” and “What Works”.

• Mindfulness:
  Practice used to help train the brain, giving us better control over our thoughts. Aides in helping to turn off ruminating thoughts. Used for a variety of different issues including anxiety, ADHD, OCD, and insomnia.

• Guided Meditation:
  Used to relax and interrupt disturbing thoughts. Allows us to have better control over our own thoughts and aids in relaxation and sleep.

• Other Treatments:
  Provide basic consultation and recommendations on herbal and supplemental treatments used for various psychiatric conditions.

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• Executive Function Skills Training

• ADHD Assessment (Brief Coaching Available)