Transforming Mental Wellness with Empathy, Understanding, and Innovation at Lift Up Live Well

Lift Up Live Well was established in 2022. The vision is to provide thoughtful and compassionate mental health care while utilizing the convenience of telehealth, specifically serving adults across New York and New Jersey.

The ultimate mission extends beyond individual treatment; it is to actively impact the national mental health crisis by providing high-quality care and working diligently to decrease the persistent stigma surrounding mental illness.

At Lift Up Live Well, our philosophy centers on culturally sensitive, individualized care. We strive to appeal to a multicultural clientele while maintaining deep sensitivity to the uniqueness and specific lived experience of every single person we serve.

The dedicated use of telehealth is our key differentiator. This technology allows us to significantly broaden our reach, connecting with and supporting a much wider community of people, both near and far.

Nerisa adopts a highly personalized methodology; each patient is seen and treated as a unique individual whose path to wellness requires a customized, specific approach tailored just for them.

Typical days involve checking emails and text messages to respond to patient inquiries as quickly as possible. Follow-up messaging and phone calls occur in between seeing patients.

Nerisa has a strong commitment to patient care. Patients can rest assured that she will show up for all appointments. Unlike the reports that she has received from patients coming to her from other practices, she takes her professional role very seriously.

The most rewarding and proudest moments occur when Nerisa witnesses profound transformations in patients’ lives—moments that directly result from the dedicated care and diligent service provided by her at Lift Up Live Well Mental Healthcare.

Compassionate. Competent. Multicultural.

Trust is built primarily through maintaining a consistently non-judgmental and accepting approach throughout all interactions and therapeutic processes.

As a child, Nerisa witnessed adults in a variety of settings struggling with varying degrees of mental illness. There were those who battled depression, others who endured the debilitating effects of schizophrenia and the stigma that accompanied the disease, and many more who wrestled with chronic alcoholism. Those experiences influenced her professional ambition and helped shape her identity. With the burgeoning opioid crisis, chronic alcoholism, eating disorders, and teen suicide rates all unabated, she thinks there’s a crucial role for psychiatric nurse practitioners in recovery and prevention.

Nerisa attends in-person seminars that are sponsored by professional organizations representing nurse practitioners. These networking events allow for the sharing of new ideas and learning from each other about emerging treatment modalities and new medications that are on the horizon to help better serve patients in the near future.

Early on, her professional ambitions led her to become a registered nurse. Later, all her professional experiences redirected her towards becoming a psychiatric nurse practitioner, where she believed she could make a bigger difference in patients’ lives.

Psychiatric nurse practitioners are the future, and she is following her passion. She has relished the daily one-to-one personal interactions with her patients. She feels more engaged in her role as a psychiatric nurse practitioner, attending to patients on an individual basis in her practice.

Credentials:

• Nurse Practitioner (NP)
• Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP)

Educational Background:

• Graduated from Fairleigh Dickinson University‘s psychiatric nurse practitioner program