Rebekah Irmler is a Board Certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner licensed through the Florida Board of Nursing and board certified through the American Nursing Credentialing Center. She earned her Master of Science in Nursing with honors from the University of Alabama, being inducted into both the Omega Nu Lambda Honor Society and the Golden Key International Honor Society. Before that she earned her Bachelor of Science in nursing from Grand Canyon University. Rebekah’s psychiatric mental health clinical training consisted of private practice psychiatry; child, adolescent, and young adult patient populations; and Veteran’s Affairs , serving the geropsychiatric patient population at the James A. Haley VA in Tampa, Florida. She has over 18 years of clinical experience and spent 20 years of her career working at Tampa General Hospital caring for patients with numerous co-morbidities: specializing in surgical services; post- and antepartum patient care; and medical and surgical direct patient care. With a passion for overcoming the stigma surrounding mental illness, Rebekah aims to afford compassion, implement change, and ultimately reach optimal outcomes in the field of psychiatric mental health. She finds inspiration in the film Life Itself: “Life brings you to your knees. It brings you lower than you think you can go, but if you stand back up and move forward, if you go just a little farther, you will always find love”. She has a commitment to excellence and believes in not only conventional medicine but also holistic approaches to well-being, acceptance, and healing. For fun, she enjoys spending time with her daughters, being outdoors, running, and traveling.