Podcast: Lindsey Hill, DNP, PMHNP, on Mentorship, Training Gaps, and Collaboration in Psychiatric Care

In this episode of "Psyched Perspectives," host Frank Clark, MD, spoke with Lindsey Hill, DNP, PMHNP, owner of the private practice Clear Care, about mentorship, training gaps, and collaboration across psychiatric professions.

Hill said her interest in psychiatry began when she worked as a community health nurse at Arizona State University Health Services. There, she saw students improve with early intervention and psychoeducation, a contrast with the inpatient rotation she had not enjoyed during nursing school. Her practice now takes an integrative, preventive approach that aims to identify risk factors early.

Supporting New Prescribers

After she joined social media about 3 years ago, students and new graduates began contacting Hill with the same questions. She turned those conversations into the Psych NP Boot Camp, a group coaching program for the transition to practice that is approved for continuing education. It includes a prescriber’s playbook of short medication videos that draw on resources such as Carlat and Neuroscience Education Institute (NEI) materials. It also offers a psychotherapy playbook, peer support groups, and coaching calls.

“I was very uncomfortable with how gray it all was when I graduated,” Hill said.

Hill would like NP programs to offer more applied training in psychopharmacology and psychotherapy and to vet preceptors more carefully. She has connected program directors, including at her alma mater, with Carlat content. Within 5 years, she hopes to expand the boot camp through enterprise-level contracts.

Bridging Professions

On the tension between psychiatric NPs and psychiatrists, Hill called for more shared in-person and virtual spaces where psychiatrists, physician associates, and NPs meet with mutual respect. Clark pointed to transparency about credentials as common ground.

“There’s not enough psychiatrists to provide all the mental health care and the needs...that exist today,” Hill said. She added that patients’ best interests should stay at the center.

For students, Hill offered 3 recommendations:

• Network early
• Protect self-care during training
• Explore free educational content from Daniel Carlat, MD

She also encouraged clinicians to develop creative outlets as a guard against burnout. Her own goal for 2026 is to show herself more grace and to stay present with her family.

Dr Clark is an outpatient psychiatrist at Prisma Health-Upstate and clinical associate professor at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Greenville. He served on the American Psychiatric Association’s Task Force to Address Structural Racism Throughout Psychiatry, and he currently serves as the Diversity and Inclusion section editor and advisory board member for Psychiatric Times.

Dr Hill is psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner and founder of Clear Care, a private practice emphasizing preventative and integrative mental health.