Where prescription meets conversation

Elevate Practice.
Empower Minds.
Expand Possibility.

A clinical training, precepting, and consulting institute for psychiatric nurse practitioners, social workers, and mental health counselors who believe medication management and psychotherapy are one conversation.

Founded and led by Dr. Shukairo "Shay" Baker — DNP, APRN, PMHNP-BC, PMHNP-C, FNP-C, CNE, LCSW, LCAS — TheraPsych Institute trains graduate students, early-career, and advanced clinicians in the art of integrated psychiatric practice.

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Our conviction

Medication management and psychotherapy are not separate disciplines — they are one conversation.

The fragmentation of psychiatric care has cost patients dearly. Prescribers who don't speak the language of therapy. Therapists who don't understand the medical dimension of psychiatric illness. Graduate students forced to choose between depth in one and exposure to the other.

TheraPsych Institute exists to close that gap — for working clinicians and the students about to become them.

Your learning journey

Four phases. One continuous arc.

From PMHNP Foundations through Mastery & Mentorship — sequential but modular. You can enter at any phase if a skills check shows you're ready.

Phase I
PMHNP Foundations I
16 hr · Live cohort

Clinical workflow — eval, MSE, risk, formulation, prescribing, documentation.

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Phase II
Foundations II Credentialing → Collections
~20 hr · Self-paced + live

Practice infrastructure — credentialing, payer contracts, CPT 2026, denials.

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Phase III
Advanced Clinical Integration
32 hr · Live + library

Integrated prescribing + five-modality psychotherapy across the lifespan.

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Phase IV
Mastery & Mentorship
24 hr · Retreat + mastermind

Group-practice design, supervision, scholarship, six-month mentorship circle.

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Not sure where to start? Take the ten-question self-assessment — we'll recommend your entry phase and the next concrete step.

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What we offer

Three ways to grow with TheraPsych

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Trainings

Psychotherapy skills for prescribers. Five evidence-based modalities. Available self-paced or as a live virtual cohort.

  • Up to 43 CE contact hours eligible (depending on training selected)
  • Learn psychotherapy skills for use during med management visits (CBT · MI · SFBT · IPT · Psychodynamic)
  • Self-paced or live virtual
  • Built for PMHNP students, practicing PMHNPs, and other prescribing clinicians
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Precepting & Internships

Supervised clinical hours with a doctorally prepared, double board-certified PMHNP and LCSW. For PMHNP, counseling, and social work students.

  • PMHNP / NP students
  • LPC / LMHC students
  • MSW / LCSW students
  • In-person and virtual options
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Business Consulting

Practice launch, billing optimization, credentialing, and marketing strategy for PMHNPs and counselors at every stage.

  • Practice launch and operations
  • Billing and revenue optimization
  • Credentialing and payer enrollment
  • Marketing for mental-health clinicians
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Featured workshop

The workshop your program didn't teach you.

A 16-hour structured curriculum that turns didactic preparation into a working clinical practice — intake, mental status, risk, formulation, lifespan psychopharmacology, documentation, and billing. Built for the first twelve months of PMHNP practice.

16Contact hours
8Integrated modules
12–20Learners per cohort
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Who it's for
  • Senior PMHNP students preparing for their first job
  • New PMHNPs in their first 12 months of practice
  • Early-career prescribers consolidating clinical workflow
  • Clinicians transitioning into psych from any prior path — RNs, FNPs, PNPs, adult-gero NPs
  • Internationally trained nurses entering U.S. psych care

Separate from our 43-CE Psychotherapy Skills program — focused on the prescribing workflow itself.

About the founder

Dr. Shukairo "Shay" Baker

"A clinician built across multiple disciplines — psychiatric prescribing, psychotherapy, addictions, and integrated care."

Dr. Baker is the founder of TheraPsych Institute, a doctorally prepared advanced-practice nurse, and one of a small number of clinicians in the United States who is both double board-certified as a psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner (through ANCC as PMHNP-BC and AANP as PMHNP-C) and independently licensed as a clinical social worker.

Her clinical work spans psychiatric evaluation, psychopharmacology, individual psychotherapy, addictions counseling, and integrated care — across pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric populations.

DNP APRN PMHNP-BC PMHNP-C FNP-C CNE LCSW LCAS
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Coming soon

Restorative retreats for working clinicians

Sedona and Costa Rica. Designed for PMHNPs, prescribers, therapists, and counselors who need space to think — with a dedicated track for the PMHNP in transition.

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Ready to begin?

Train with us. Precept with us. Consult with us.

Whether you are a working PMHNP looking to add psychotherapy to your practice, a graduate student searching for a preceptor who will actually invest in your development, or a clinician building or scaling a private practice — there is a place for you here.

Get in touch → hello@therapsychinstitute.com