TELEHEALTH FOR WOMEN · MARYLAND, WASHINGTON & NEW YORK
No matter the season, you are still her.
Specialized psychiatric care for women, where hormones and the mind meet. I treat the whole picture, not just the parts that show up on a lab report.
Over 20 Years Working With Women
Licensed in MD · WA · NY
Menopause Society Certification Candidate
Fluent in Haitian Creole
HOW I WORK
Your hormones, your mind, your body, your appetite.
They were never separate conversations. It's time your care stopped treating them that way.
Root-cause thinking
We look at what is actually driving your symptoms, hormonal, psychiatric, metabolic, or all three, instead of medicating one piece and hoping the rest sorts itself out.
Whole-person treatment
Medication when it helps, EMDR when it's called for, and a plan that fits your actual life.
A real relationship
Telehealth visits across Maryland, Washington State, and New York, with a provider who remembers your story from one visit to the next.
PMDD
When the week before your period reliably takes you somewhere darker than the rest of the month can explain.
Depression & Anxiety
Sometimes hormonal, sometimes not, and always worth treating like the real thing it is.
Life Transitions
Motherhood, divorce, loss of a parent or spouse, an empty nest, a new career. When life changes everything, your mind feels it too.
Learn more ›WHAT BRINGS WOMEN HERE
Eight ways this shows up. One way I treat it.
Every woman I see is different, but most of the reasons they reach out fall somewhere in this list. Wherever you land, we start with the whole picture.
Perimenopause & Menopause
For the years when your body changes the rules without telling you, and your mood changes right along with it.
Eating Behaviors, Weight & Mental Health
For binge eating, food noise, body image, and the emotional weight that can come with obesity.
Perinatal & Postpartum
Support through pregnancy and after, for the moods and thoughts that can come with either one.
Athletes & High Performers
For the women whose bodies and minds are both being asked to perform, and need a plan built around both.
ADHD in Women
Often missed for years, and often tangled up with hormones in ways that standard ADHD care never asks about.
MEET CHRISTINE
I know this season, because I have been her.
I'm Christine Archer, a psychiatric nurse practitioner who treats the whole picture, not just the parts that show up on a lab report. Hormonal shifts, mood, focus, eating and body image, the weight of performing at a high level.
Whatever season you're in, I don't believe you need to be rebuilt into someone new.
PMHNP-BC · MSN · MSEd
PAST · PRESENT · BECOMING
Why the lotus
Past, present, and becoming, all in one frame. No matter the season, no matter what changes, you are still her.
The Bent Stem
The bent stem, reflected in the dark water below, is where you've been. The season that brought you here.
The Bloom
The bloom, risen clean and white above the surface, is where you are now, or where you're hoping to get to. Not someone new. Still her, recognized again.
The Bud
The small bud rising behind it is what never stops. There's always a next season, and she moves through every one of them.
COMING SOON · THE BOOK
The Lotus Promise
A love letter to the woman I fought so hard to become.
Christine's story, in her own words. Past, present, and becoming. The same journey behind every conversation she has with the women she sees.
YOU MAY BE IN THE RIGHT PLACE
You'll feel at home here if…
You want someone who looks at your hormones and your mental health together, not in separate silos.
You've been told it's "just stress," "just PMS," or "just your age," and you know it's more than that.
You want medication to be one option on the table, not the whole plan.
You're the strong one for everyone else, and you're tired of carrying it quietly.
You've gone quiet in rooms where you used to have opinions.
You want a provider who remembers your story from one visit to the next.
THE REASON BEHIND STILL HER
I was her. I lost her. Then I found her again.
Still Her is my life story. It took me a long journey to realize that I am worthy, that I am loved, that I am enough, and that my voice deserves to be heard. Somewhere along the way I lost her. Then I rediscovered her. Now I'm discovering who I'm becoming, and I am more than okay with who I am.
As a nurse, an educator, a makeup artist, and a nutrition and fitness coach, I was always pulled toward women. Every time we sat in a room together, I saw how alike we are. So often we're going through the same thing, each of us thinking we're the only one.
I want you to feel loved. To know you are enough, you are worthy, and you deserve the very best of life. You don't have to dim your light or compromise who you are for anyone. You just have to be. That is where we find ourselves, and where we find joy. Not happiness, which comes and goes. Joy, which holds in every season.
Freedom is wonderful, but freedom is not free.
I didn't buy it. I became it.
We are not meant to suffer alone. I believe in this work, and I believe in you.
YOUR NEXT SEASON STARTS HERE
Putting yourself first was never selfish. It was the whole assignment.
Book a free 15-minute consultation and we'll figure out, together, whether this is the right fit for you.
If I have been part of your care, a Google review helps other women find me. Thank you.