Michele Whitaker, MSN, APRN, PMHNP-BC, is a board-certified psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner and founder of MoonPhase Integrative Psychiatry & Wellness in Massachusetts. She brings more than three decades of experience in behavioral health and substance use care, with a focus on women’s mental health and reproductive psychiatry.

Her clinical interests include premenstrual mood disorders, ADHD, anxiety, perimenopause and menopause, and sexual wellbeing. She has completed advanced training and certifications in women’s mental health, integrative women’s health, menopause management, and nutritional

psychiatry, and is currently pursuing certification in psychiatric deprescribing. Her approach emphasizes individualized,

hormone-aware psychiatric care, therapeutic supports, and collaboration with women’s health clinicians.

Michele is also a practicing herbalist and certified teacher of hatha yoga and laughter yoga. These disciplines inform her integrative approach, including attention to patients’ use of herbs and supplements and the incorporation of movement, breathwork, relaxation, and body awareness as complementary supports within clinical care.

Alongside her clinical practice, she brings decades of experience facilitating education,workshops, retreats, and personalized rites of passage that support women through life transitions. Across her work, she centers respect for each woman’s observations, experiences, and knowing