A Therapeutic Relationship in the 15 Minute Visit

Welcome to the Healthy Baby Boomers Network Blog Talk Radio Show.  I am your host, Dr. Erica Goodstone, Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Spiritual Relationship Healer and Somatic Body Psychotherapist, Helping Men and Women Heal Their Bodies and Their Relationships Through Love, author of the book: Love Me, Touch Me, Heal Me and the romantic novel, Love in the Blizzard of Life, and creator of Healing Through Love Seminars, Love Me, Touch Me, Heal Me Complete Relationship System and the upcoming 30 Day Love Challenge which begins this Spring.

Today I am speaking with Cindy Parsons, DNP, ARNP-BC, FAANP. 

Dr. Parsons is an Associate Professor of Nursing at the University of Tampa. In her role as educator she teaches graduate and undergraduate nursing students; focusing on psychiatric mental health, family-centered care, community and population health and the contemporary role of the nurse practitioner.  In her clinical practice she works as an APN (advanced practice nurse) treating adults, adolescents and families with psychiatric or mental health disorders.  She has contributed to a number of psychiatric nursing texts and journals. She has lectured extensively on the care and treatment of mental illness across the lifespan.  As a psychiatric nurse practitioner, Dr. Parsons has practiced with children, adolescents and adults and she understanding how to foster a truly therapeutic relationship in her brief 15 minute visits with her patients.