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Mary Crutchfield, PMHNP-BC, FNP-C

The Creative Clinician

Have an idea for a group, workshop, or service? PsychBoss helps you draw on your experience, develop one manageable offering, and prepare an appropriate first test.

Mary Crutchfield seated in her office
Creative, practical education For psychiatric nurse practitioners and other mental health clinicians

Your practice

What do you want to offer?

There is no single right way to be a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner. Your training, interests, life experiences, and additional skills all have a place in your work.

Start with the needs you keep noticing in your clients. Then consider which of your skills might help you respond. PsychBoss gives you a way to work through those questions and develop something you can try in practice.

The Founding Guided Edition

The Creative Clinician

Turn one idea into an offering you can try.

Enrollment $997 Lifetime course access Discount codes can be applied at checkout.

You may have an idea for a group, workshop, or service. You may still be figuring out what you want to offer.

Mary’s recorded lessons and workbook guide you through four modules: explore your strengths, choose an idea that responds to a need, and prepare a manageable first version. Then work through inviting appropriate participants, trying a free first version of your offering, and learning from feedback.

Time with Mary as you work through it. The Founding Guided Edition includes access to ongoing group calls every other week for 12 weeks after enrollment to discuss what you’re learning as you develop your offering.

  • Four modules with recorded video lessons from Mary
  • Lifetime course access
  • Course workbook
  • Guided meditation audio
  • Group calls every other week, with 12 weeks of eligibility after enrollment
  • 4.0 nursing CE contact hours
01

Your Clinical Identity

Look at what you want to change in your work and the strengths, experiences, and interests you could draw on.

02

Explore an Idea

Consider what your clients need and where your skills could help. Choose one idea to develop.

03

Build Your Offering

Define who it is for, choose a delivery format, and work through preparation, consent, boundaries, and the details of the experience.

04

Try It in Practice

Find words that sound like you, invite appropriate participants, and prepare your first test. Use feedback to decide what to keep, change, or try next.

What you’re working toward

One offering. A practical next step.

The goal is to develop one offering, prepare and run an appropriate first test, and use what you learn to decide what comes next. Your timeline will depend on your idea, preparation, and participant availability.

Regular enrollment: $997

Eligible Beyond the Script attendees: enter your conference code at checkout to enroll for $500.

4.0 Nursing CE Contact Hours Florida Board of Nursing-Approved CE Provider Provider #50-33593 · Certificate upon successful completion
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From clinicians

Working with Mary

Clinicians share their experiences of Mary’s consultation, supervision, and creative work.

Amanda Nixon

Before our consultation, I felt drawn to expressive arts but didn’t know how to offer it safely or structure a session in an embodied, trauma informed way. Mary helped everything make sense. She showed me how expressive arts and Hypnobreathwork integrate seamlessly and walked me through the full flow of a session. I left feeling more confident, grounded, and capable of holding both group and individual experiences while allowing creativity, embodiment, and emotional expression to unfold naturally. Mary has a gift for breaking complex processes into clear and digestible steps, while also teaching the subtle details that make a session truly well held. Understanding pacing, music, sequencing, and how to read the energy of the room changed everything for me. Her guidance is intuitive, practical, and deeply grounded in experience. CreativeRx makes the work feel accessible, safe, empowering, and easy to implement.

Amanda Nixon, MSN, FNP-CCreativeRx consultation
Deanna Herbol

As a licensed therapist, I came into working with Mary already trained in traditional modalities like CBT and trauma-informed practice, but I felt there was a gap between what I knew intellectually and what I could access creatively and somatically, both for myself and for my clients. Through my supervision and immersion experiences with Mary, I was introduced to an entirely new way of working: bilateral techniques, visual journaling, expressive arts, breathwork, and body-led practices that helped me reconnect with my own creative flow. What I appreciated most was the safety I felt to ask questions, to experiment, and to integrate these tools in a grounded way. Mary’s approach helped me deepen my attunement, expand my clinical creativity, and trust the wisdom of the body with my clients as well as myself! The work we did together didn’t just enhance how I show up therapeutically; it personally shifted something in me. I began listening to what I actually needed rather than what I thought I “should” feel or want.

Deanna Herbol, LCSWExcerpt from feedback on supervision and immersion work
Liz Burkholder

Mary is very talented at what she does. She helps people to feel, heal, and express through art, movement, sound, Hypno-Breathwork, and more. She brings not only compassion, but also so much fun and joy to the spaces she holds. It is a delight to work with her and to be in her presence.

Liz Burkholder, PhD, PMHNP, FNPCreative work with Mary
Mary Crutchfield standing in her office
Psychiatry since 2011

About Mary

Meet Mary Crutchfield, PMHNP-BC

Founder of PsychBoss | Owner of Leva Psychiatry

I opened two insurance-based practices before realizing that, no matter how hard I worked, the traditional model wasn't the right fit for how I wanted to practice.

In 2017, I founded Leva Psychiatry in Virginia Beach as a therapy-forward, cash-based practice. Since then, I've continued to evolve what we offer based on client needs and the skills and passions I wanted to bring into my work.

Along the way, I've developed groups, retreats, workshops, expressive and creative interventions, UCLA PEERS programming, consultations, one-on-one trauma-healing intensives, and community events. Not every idea worked perfectly the first time, but each one taught me something about building a practice that feels both clinically meaningful and personally sustainable.

That's why I created PsychBoss.

I want to help other PMHNPs recognize the skills, experiences, and interests they may not be using in their current roles, and discover how to turn those strengths into meaningful services. That could be a therapy group, workshop, intensive, or something entirely different. The goal is to create something that fits both the clinician and the people they serve.

I've worked in psychiatry since 2011, became a PMHNP in 2016, and have led Leva Psychiatry since 2017. Through PsychBoss, I'm bringing those years of clinical experience, experimentation, and entrepreneurship together to help other clinicians expand what's possible in their work.

Continuing Education & Certification

4.0 Nursing CE Contact Hours

The Creative Clinician: Reimagining Mental Health Practice Beyond the Traditional Model is offered by PsychBoss through a Florida Board of Nursing-approved continuing education provider.

Approving Body
Florida Board of Nursing
CE Provider Number
50-33593
Credit Type
General Nursing Continuing Education
Contact Hours
4.0

Participants who successfully complete the required course content, post-test, and course evaluation will be eligible to receive a certificate of completion documenting 4.0 nursing CE contact hours.

Important: Acceptance of these continuing education hours outside Florida is determined by the individual licensing or credentialing organization. Participants are responsible for verifying their specific continuing education requirements.

FAQ

Course questions

Have another question? Email Mary.

Email Mary
Who is PsychBoss for?

PsychBoss is primarily for PMHNPs interested in developing a group, workshop, or service using their clinical skills and other interests. Other mental health clinicians exploring similar work may also find it useful.

Do I need to own a private practice?

No. You may be adding something new to an existing role, developing a group or workshop, creating a specialty service, or exploring another way to serve clients.

What’s included?

The Founding Guided Edition includes four modules of recorded video lessons taught by Mary, a workbook, guided meditation audio, and lifetime course access. You’ll also have access to ongoing group calls every other week for 12 weeks after enrollment. Participants who complete the required course content, post-test, and course evaluation will be eligible to receive a certificate documenting 4.0 nursing CE contact hours.

How does it work?

Work through the recorded lessons and workbook in order, allowing time between lessons to reflect and prepare your offering. The course guides you toward an appropriate free first test, followed by feedback and reflection. Group calls every other week, with 12 weeks of eligibility after enrollment accompany the Founding Guided Edition.

Does this course teach a new therapy modality?

The course focuses on developing and testing an offering using skills you are already qualified to provide. Clinical approaches mentioned in the lessons are examples from Mary’s work. This course does not train or certify you in those approaches. Your offering should fit your training, competence, and professional scope.

What if I’m still deciding what to create?

You can start with a question or an idea that is still taking shape. The first two modules help you consider your strengths, interests, and the needs you notice in your work before choosing one offering to develop.

Can I check the group-call schedule before enrolling?

Email Mary to ask about dates, time zone, call length, and arrangements if you cannot attend. These details can help you decide whether the guided edition fits your schedule.

Are the live trainings and immersion included?

The Founding Guided Edition includes the course materials and 12 weeks of group-call eligibility described above. Upcoming live trainings and the individual PsychBoss Immersion are separate offerings.

How does conference pricing work?

Regular enrollment is $997. Eligible Beyond the Script attendees will be able to use their conference code to enroll for $500 when enrollment opens.

The Creative Clinician

Start with one offering

Explore your idea with Mary’s recorded lessons and workbook, prepare a manageable first offering, and learn from trying it. The Founding Guided Edition also includes guided meditation audio and 12 weeks of eligibility for ongoing group calls every other week.

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