Lindsey is a psychiatric and palliative care nurse practitioner. She began her healthcare career by obtaining the terminal degree in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University. Here she learned the power of story and how illness, pain, suffering and dying impact a person’s life story and how they tell it. As a registered nurse working in palliative care, she learned the many ways in which the healthcare system does not properly attend to the reality of personhood for the people it is supposed to serve, particularly when seriously ill, She went on to train at Columbia University Irving Medical Center where she became a board certified psychiatric nurse practitioner and advanced practice hospice and palliative care nurse. She has since worked in community based mental health, private practice, consult-liaison psychiatry services, outpatient and inpatient palliative care services and, most recently, for a start up- home based palliative care program as a consulting psychiatric nurse practitioner. Now, she is launching a private practice, bringing a new narrative to how the mental health profession shows up for patients and families who are coping with serious illness, thinking about or have transitioned to hospice, or those who need help with symptom management. Her goal is to help as many people live as well as they can for as long as they can, with as much meaning as they can.