is a mental-health recovery advocate, author, non-profit founder, entrepreneur, coach, and lawyer. She is a Certified Psychiatric Rehabilitation Practitioner and faculty member of the Department of Psychiatry’s Program for Recovery and Community Health at Yale University. She built the ForLikeMinds platform of recovery-focused mental health initiatives and its associated community of over 100,000 that has reached millions. She is on the board of the National Alliance on Mental Illness-NYC.
Loving Someone with a Serious Mental Illness: Caring for Your Loved One and Yourself on the Journey to Mental Health Recovery . She has lived with severe bipolar I disorder with psychosis, including extended periods of suicidal depression for over 20 years and has been happily living in recovery since 2018.Loving Someone with a Serious Mental Illness: Caring for Your Loved One and Yourself on the Journey to Mental Health RecoveryRecovery from serious mental illness doesn’t need to take so long or be so hard when you learn from lived experience.