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Mindful GEM Psychiatry is not an emergency service.
Mindful GEM Psychiatry provides compassionate, expert psychiatric care through telehealth across Maryland and in-person visits in Severna Park.
Care is structured to feel calm, collaborative, and clear from the first conversation forward.
Availability
Tuesday through Saturday
9:30 am to 6:30 pm Eastern
Location
811 Ritchie Hwy
Suite 15
Severna Park, Maryland 21146-4130
Process
Many people come to us after feeling:
We built our care to avoid that experience.
Growth | Encouragement | Motivation
Mindful GEM Psychiatry
Growth, Encouragement, and Motivation are more than brand language. They frame how care is delivered and how progress is supported over time.
Mindful GEM Psychiatry is built around the belief that meaningful psychiatric care should support the whole person, not just symptoms. Care is collaborative and supportive, with a focus on safety, stability, and the best possible outcomes.
Growth, Encouragement, and Motivation shape the practice's approach to individualized, integrative care that may include medication management, advocacy, mental health education, and culturally humble support where every patient is reminded that they matter.
Ongoing integrative mental wellness care is centered on listening carefully, building trust over time, and helping each person move toward steadier routines, healthier coping, and greater resilience in daily life.
Common Concerns
Many patients arrive after feeling rushed, overmedicated, or not fully heard. Mindful GEM Psychiatry structures care differently with longer intake visits, collaborative treatment planning, and a clear expectation that questions and concerns belong in the room.
No. We don't start with medication unless it's clearly needed. Medication is considered only when clinically appropriate and only as part of patient-included management with professional advice.
The first visit is used to understand concerns, history, stressors, strengths, and goals. It is a conversation designed to clarify what is going on before any plan is finalized.
Initial sessions are typically 45 to 75 minutes. Follow-up visits are often about 45 minutes, with the final 15 minutes reserved for confidential documentation, care planning, and proper follow-through.
No. We don't rush diagnoses. If something is unclear, we take the time to understand it properly. Diagnostic impressions are used as tools to guide care, not labels that define a person.
We structure care differently: we avoid medication-first treatment, we use hour-long intake sessions whenever needed for clarity, and we make room for thoughtful follow-up instead of pushing people through a fast process.
Proven Techniques
Mindful GEM Psychiatry uses practical, proven techniques so care feels tangible rather than abstract. The goal is to help patients understand what is happening, participate in decisions, and build durable habits that support emotional steadiness over time.
Care starts with careful listening, trauma-informed interviewing, thoughtful assessment, and attention to patterns in sleep, stress, relationships, and physical health. This helps treatment stay grounded in the whole person rather than a rushed impression.
Encouragement is provided through psychoeducation, collaborative goal setting, motivational interviewing, and realistic step-by-step planning. Patients are supported in understanding options, asking questions, and shaping decisions rather than being pushed through a fixed script.
Growth is supported through measurement-based follow-up, medication review when appropriate, routine-building, coping-skills coaching, mindfulness strategies, journaling, and other evidence-informed methods that help progress become visible and sustainable.
Provider
MSN, CRNP, PMHNP-BC
Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
Severna Park, Maryland
Vivian Craft brings more than two decades of nursing experience across diverse clinical settings, along with a strong psychiatric background in evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment.
As a person from Black, Indigenous, and People of Color communities, she understands the importance of representation and cultural humility in mental health care. Her practice is evidence-based, patient-centered, and affirming, creating a space where individuals feel seen, heard, respected, and actively involved in their care.
Top Specialties
Mindful GEM Psychiatry offers collaborative, evidence-based psychiatric care with focused support for anxiety, depression, and mood disorders across every stage of life. Top specialties highlighted in the public practice profile and a core area of individualized care at Mindful GEM Psychiatry.
Care may include evaluation, diagnosis, medication management when appropriate, advocacy, and mental health education, with culturally responsive support shaped by representation, cultural humility, and the belief that every patient deserves to feel heard, respected, and valued.
Additional Areas Of Support
Mindful GEM Psychiatry offers personalized psychiatric care designed around the needs of each individual. Services may include psychiatric evaluations, ongoing treatment, therapy-informed support, and medication management when appropriate.
Thoughtful assessments help clarify symptoms, history, concerns, and treatment goals.
Steady, supportive care is designed to help patients build stability and move forward with confidence.
Medication review and treatment planning are offered when clinically appropriate as part of a broader care plan. We don't start with medication unless it's clearly needed.
Care reflects life stage, cultural context, emotional wellbeing, and long-term mental health needs.
Access
Convenient virtual psychiatric care for patients throughout Maryland.
Select in-person visits are available in Severna Park and surrounding communities based on patient needs and clinical fit.
Contact
If you are looking for expert psychiatric care for yourself or a loved one, Mindful GEM Psychiatry welcomes you to connect.
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Availability
Tuesday through Saturday
9:30 am to 6:30 pm Eastern
Initial sessions are typically 45 to 75 minutes. Follow-up visits are often about 45 minutes, with the final 15 minutes reserved for confidential documentation and care planning.
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