About the Inception of Bright Waters

As a young nurse, I was discouraged from working in psychiatry. “You are too small, too young, and too cute; this job will eat you alive!” they said.

Being young and impressionable, I was steered in other directions of nursing. I found myself unhappy in my career for a long time, and as I grew older, I realized it was because I had allowed someone else’s opinion to rob me of pursuing my dreams.

“They” say you will never work a day in your life if you love what you do, and these days I love what I do. I have cried alongside patients during some of their darkest days and there are plenty of people who can not wrap their minds around how a person can love a job when the experience can be difficult. It’s because I deeply empathize with how they feel, and this is I was made for. For me, this is a true calling.

I have always wanted to help people struggling with their mental health, and I find it to be the most rewarding career I could ever imagine.

I started a private practice so that I am able to serve patients to my fullest potential providing tools for self-empowerment and self-actualization.

Bright Waters Psychiatry and Wellness is named after the street my grandmother lived on.

Throughout her younger years and during her declining life, she persevered and did things her way. After her divorce, she lived alone for almost 30 years, and she was always so independent. As she aged and her health declined, we all begged her to come back to Baltimore and she said, “No, Florida is my home now”.

Fast forward to while in a Florida nursing home, she insisted on selling her house, refusing to let her family do it for her. Everything from choosing the realtor to coordinating the closing and signing of documents.

Nothing says self-empowerment to me more than how she carried out her life and her last days, so in honor of her came the name of the practice.