Donyelle Miller, PMHNP, CNM, MSN, IBCLC (she/her) is a fierce and compassionate advocate for her community. Her lived experiences as a Black, self-identified woman, mother, sister, auntie, daughter, and partner have given her unique insights into supporting folks on their journeys toward healing.
Donyelle is honored to have the opportunity to work alongside the Radical Healing community to provide mental health and wellness care.
She has previously served her community as an Addiction Counselor, an International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant, a Midwife, a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, and the Clinical Consultant for Radical Change with Black Health New Mexico. Her life’s work is rooted in a liberation-focused and reproductive justice framework while consistently working to dismantle systems of White supremacy that harm our communities and imagining new ways to care for ourselves and our communities in radically holistic ways. Throughout her career, Donyelle has been active in policy work, curriculum building, and coalition building with Indigenous and other BIPOC communities. Donyelle’s journey in healthcare has been diverse and rich with experience. She has served as the Lead Nurse of the adolescent psychiatric unit at the Fort Defiance Hospital of the Navajo Nation in Fort Defiance, AZ. She has also worked as a Midwife at Dar-a-Luz Birth and Health Center and the University of New Mexico, providing holistic prenatal, postpartum, Newborn, and reproductive health care in hospital and out-of-hospital settings. In addition, Donyelle offers culturally congruent and gender-affirming care across her community. She continues to grow her interest and skills in psychedelic medication and integration with individuals and curated BIPOC groups. Donyelle utilizes a strength-based, holistic approach that incorporates a liberation-focused framework, utilizing somatic and embodiment practices, as well as client-centered medication prescribing and management.
She is committed to creating a space for people from communities that have been systematically harmed to continue working toward healing from the profound impacts of systemic oppression and marginalization. Donyelle’s life work is a testament to her unwavering dedication to promoting health equity, advocating for reproductive justice, and fostering holistic healing in her community. Donyelle’s great joys are being with her two children and partner of 25 years, dancing, music, and being anywhere near water.
“Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion.”
–bell hooks