Whole-person mental health care, centered around you.
Personalized psychiatry, functional and holistic approaches, medication management, and therapy for people who want thoughtful care that looks beyond symptoms alone.
Holistic Psychiatry
Whole-person care that looks beyond symptoms alone
Medication Management
Thoughtful treatment tailored to your individual needs
Individual Therapy
Compassionate support for healing and meaningful change
Brainspotting
Focused brain-body support for deeper emotional processing
When Everything Feels Like Too Much
Are you stressed out? Overwhelmed? Nervous or unmotivated? Do you feel like you can’t even start a task because everything just feels like it’s too much? If this sounds like you, you’re in the right place.
Taking the time and effort to seek treatment is the first step to feeling better, and we recognize what an enormous feat this can be for people. Our mission at Bright Waters Psychiatry and Wellness is to guide people toward self-empowerment and self-actualization while achieving optimal health and well-being.
“As the owner and operator of Bright Waters, I have the time and ability to give attention to what people say, do, and need. I pay attention. I see you, I hear you, and I care.”
Thoughtful Mental Health Care, Designed Around the Whole You.
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Psychiatric Care
Comprehensive assessment, diagnosis, medication management, and ongoing follow-up tailored to your symptoms, history, treatment goals, and overall mental well-being.
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Functional Psychiatry
A whole-person approach considering labs, nutrition, micronutrients, sleep, lifestyle, physical health, medications, and other factors that may influence mental well-being.
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EMDR & Brainspotting Therapy
Collaborative individual therapy with specialized modalities including EMDR and Brainspotting to support emotional processing, trauma recovery, anxiety management, self-understanding, and meaningful personal change.
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Lab & Nutritional Support
Clinically appropriate lab review, micronutrient evaluation, and targeted nutritional support can provide additional insight and help shape a more individualized treatment plan.
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Supportive Psychotherapy
Brief supportive psychotherapy during psychiatric visits can help process challenges, strengthen coping skills, understand emotional patterns, and complement medication management.
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Neurocognitive & Genetic Testing
Selected assessments may support diagnostic clarity, evaluate attention or executive-function concerns, and provide additional information for more individualized treatment decisions.
Therapy & Brainspotting
A supportive space for meaningful emotional work.
Melissa views therapy as a collaborative journey. Alongside traditional talk therapy, her training in Brainspotting offers a focused, brain-body approach that may help clients process experiences that feel difficult to resolve through words alone.
Brainspotting may be explored for concerns such as trauma, anxiety, emotional overwhelm, performance issues, and other patterns that feel persistent or deeply rooted. Developed by Dr. David Grand, the therapy is based on “where you look affects how you feel”. By finding a brainspot through your visual field during a therapy session, you can access stored emotional or psychical symptoms which can then be reprocessed.
Melissa is also a certified EMDR therapist. EMDR is short for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. By using bilateral stimulation and side to side stimulation, you can replace negative thoughts, feelings and negative beliefs with adaptive neutral perspectives to evoke meaningful permanent change.
You can find out more here through the EMDR international Association https://www.emdria.org/about-emdr-therapy/
Meet the People Behind Bright Waters
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Gabrielle Riley, MSN, PMHNP
Owner & Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
Gabrielle provides personalized psychiatric care with a thoughtful, whole-person approach. Her work combines comprehensive assessment, medication management, and holistic considerations to help patients better understand their mental health and create treatment plans that feel individualized and collaborative.
Looking at the Big Picture
I look at the big picture. If you haven’t had lab work done recently, this could be an important part of understanding how you’re feeling. When appropriate, I can order lab work and review your micronutrient levels with you.
During our first session, we’ll also discuss the difference between standard “normal” lab values and ranges that may be considered more optimal for your individual health and treatment goals.
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Melissa Rudacille, LMSW
EMDR & Brainspotting Therapist
Melissa offers compassionate individual therapy in a supportive and collaborative environment. With specialized training in Brainspotting, she helps clients explore emotional challenges, process difficult experiences, build greater self-awareness, and work toward meaningful, lasting personal growth.
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Mary Yu
Virtual Administrative Assistant
Mary helps create a welcoming and organized experience for Bright Waters patients from their very first interaction. She supports scheduling, general questions, and day-to-day administrative needs with professionalism, reliability, kindness, and careful attention to each patient’s experience.
Holistic & Functional Psychiatry
Looking beyond symptoms to understand the full picture.
Mental health can be influenced by many interconnected factors. Our psychiatric approach considers the person as a whole while still using evidence-based clinical care.
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We begin with your history, symptoms, concerns, goals, and lived experience.
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When appropriate, we consider labs, nutrition, sleep, physical health, and lifestyle alongside psychiatric symptoms.
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Medication and non-prescription support are personalized rather than approached as one-size-fits-all.
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Treatment evolves collaboratively based on response, goals, and changing needs.
Patient Wellness Resource
Professional-Grade Supplements, Made Easier to Access
Bright Waters may recommend select Pure Encapsulations products as part of an individualized wellness plan. Recommendations are considered alongside your overall care, health needs, treatment goals, and any other clinically relevant factors.
Patients can use Bright Waters’ Pure Patient Direct access to create an account and explore practitioner-linked options. Supplement use should always be individualized and should not replace prescribed treatment or necessary medical care.
Care That Feels Personal & Supportive
Hear from patients who have experienced the thoughtful, compassionate, and personalized approach that guides care at Bright Waters.
Gabrielle literally saved me. I dont know what I would have done without her help. She came through for me when no one else did. She figured out what was wrong and helped me feel like my old self again.
Being able to get the care I needed after a long time has been life changing for me. I finally found someone who knows their stuff and I feel so supported and seen. I am so grateful to Gabrielle and her practice for the thoughtful care she provides. I was recommended by a friend who also had a great experience.
I was so nervous to do therapy I put it off and put it off and Gabrielle convinced me to see Melissa and I am so glad that I did. I had an amazing and transformative experience from a brain spotting session. My life has deeply improved and I can not say enough about the positive result that I had.
Take the Next Step
Ready to Begin Your Care?
Connect with Bright Waters to explore personalized psychiatry, therapy, and whole-person support designed around your needs, goals, and well-being.