Hear to Help is a nurses way of thinking, advocating, and supporting individuals. Using trauma informed principles ensuring safety, empowerment, voice, collaboration, inclusivity, and support. Psychiatric care should be inviting, genuine, and understandable. Hear to Help Mental Health is here to listen to you and what you need from a psychiatric provider.
Hear to Help Mental Health
Hear to Help started with an idea….to listen and be present for people on their mental health journey
JoEllen “Ellen” Schimmels is hear to help mental health. Empowering individuals with trauma informed, evidence based care. Ellen has been a nurse since 1998, and has worked in a variety of clinical, administrative, academic, and strategic settings. During her 20+ years active duty in the US Army, she worked with individuals and advocated, mentored, and implemented system based changes across the military health system. She is trained in cognitive behavioral therapy (for insomnia, trauma focused, and suicide prevention), prolonged exposure, cognitive processing therapy, and accelerated resolution therapy. A consummate mental health advocate, she has presented and published on anxiety, trauma, well-being, telehealth, substance use issues, education, and suicide. She has been a proponent of improving mental health care for well over two decades, using trauma-informed nursing practices that distinguishes her in the field. Let hear to help, here to heal work with you on your journey for improved mental health in your life.
Selected References
Morganstein, J. C., West, J. C., Schimmels, J., & Benedek, D. M. (2020, April 27) Response to and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic: What will it take? Psychiatry, 1-6. doi: 10.1080/00332747.2020.1750928
Naegle, M.A., Kelly, L.A., Embree, J.L., Valentine, N., Sharp, D., Grinspun, D., Hines-Martin, V.P., Crawford, C.L., & Rosa, W.E. (2023, March/April). American academy of nursing consensus recommendations to advance system level change for nurse well-being. Nurs Outlook, 71(2), 19. https://doi. org/10.1016/j.outlook.2023.101917
Schimmels, J., & Cunningham, L. (2021). How do we move forward with trauma-informed care? Journal for Nurse Practitioners, 17(4),405-411. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nurpra.2020.12.005
Schimmels, J., Groh, C., Neft, M., Wocial, L., Young, C., & Davidson, J. E. (2023). American Academy of Nursing expert panel consensus statement on leveraging equity in policy to improve recognition and treatment of mental health, substance use disorders, and nurse suicide. Nursing Outlook, 71(3), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.outlook.2023.101970.