Shaelin Keairnes (she/her) is a queer, cisgender person and a board-certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. As a prescribing clinician, her practice is deeply collaborative: she is honored to partner with clients in identifying what brings them meaning, while creating care plans in alignment with the well-being of their whole person. She values client priorities, harm reduction, evidence-based interventions, and affordable/accessible treatment. Shaelin recognizes healing as a community-level endeavor, taking a liberation-focused approach to mental healthcare services as a means of easing suffering, releasing shame, and fostering agency.
Her years of experience as a nurse in community emergency behavioral health helped ignite her passion for expanding affordable, quality mental health services to the folks who are often failed by our current psychiatric system. Her research efforts have focused on mental health disparities and the multi-factorial impact of stress in marginalized groups. This background informs both the space she creates for clients, as well as her dedication to improving care for our LGBTQ+ and BIPOC communities. In the clinic setting, she has experience diagnosing and treating a wide variety of presentations including anxiety, mood, neurodiverse, bipolar, and psychotic conditions, with additional training and experience in Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) for substance use disorders.
While she takes joy in this work, her cup is filled by playing music in her community, dancing, riding (and fixing) her bike, laughing with friends, and cooking big pots of soup to share.
Shaelin is a graduate of Augusta University’s nursing program, and holds her Master’s in Nursing from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
