Michelle Bernabe
Nurse Leader Manifesting healing Ideas in Brain Health & Healthcare
Scholar of Unlearning, Moral Leadership & Systems Change | Innovator, Storyteller & Fierce Advocate
Michelle's Speaking and Media
In The Media
- Rapid-Acting Mental Health Treatment Summit Aims to Lead the Conversation on What’s Next in Mental Health
Nov. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire - The future is now: How is technology impacting the benefits industry?BenefitsPRO | July 31, 2023
- Health & Healing with Narrative Medicine with Michelle Bernabe
April 1, 2023 /What I Meant To Say Podcast
- Therapists Are Doing Sessions in Locked Bathrooms While Patients Call in From Their Cars
April, 4, 2020/ SLATE
- The Many Faces of Bravery Columbia Nurses on the COVID-19 Nov 9, 2020 /Columbia Nursing Magazine
- Pandemic Check-In, Co-host, A Western Sounds Production
Mar. 19, 2020 / VULTURE
- NY Nurses Say A Strike Is Needed To Keep Patients Safe
Mar 20, 2019 /Gothamist
The Dignity Lab Podcast
Guest: “The Dignity of Accountability” (2025)- Rapid-Acting Mental Health Treatment 2024 (“RAMHT 2024”) an in-person event on January 7th, 2024 in San Francisco.
- Beyond the Breakthrough: The Psychedelics & Whole Health Integration Summit an in-person event on April 9, 2024 – April 11, 2024 in Orlando.
Off the Rails Podcast
Guest: “Innovative Treatments and the Fight for Mental Healthcare Reform” (2024)
Brooklyn Borough President: Testimony on “Ending Medical Debt”
2022New York City Council Committee on Civil Service and Labor: Testimony on “Mental Health in the Workforce”
2022Public Health Webinar Panel Host: “Psychosis In A Pandemic”
2020Public Health Webinar Panel Host: “Addiction During COVID-19 Quarantine”
2020Alumni Panel at Columbia University: Nursing in COVID-19
2020New York City Hall: Testimony on Safe Staffing
2019
Michelle's Professional Credentials
Licenses & Certifications
Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy: A Model for Accessible Psychedelic Therapy
Sage Integrative Health
Issued: January 2021Mentalization Based Therapy: Basics Certificate
Anna Freud
Issued: November 2019Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy for Cancer Care Providers
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Issued: August 2018Improv and Sketch Training Programs
The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre
Issued: January 2016Five Mindfulness Trainings Certification
Thich Nhat Hanh’s Blue Cliff Monastery
Issued: June 2015, 2018, 2023Being With Dying: Roshi Joan Halifax, PhD
San Diego, California
Issued: 2008
education background
- Columbia University in the City of New York
Bachelor of Science Nursing (BSN), Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse
2012 – 2013
Narrative Medicine – Columbia University/Macy Scholars Program
Columbia University
Issued: January 2013
- University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego)
BA, Human Development, magna cum laude
2005 – 2008
Fellowships & Awards
- Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments Fellowship
2023- Present - Society of Participatory Medicine
2022 – Present - American Nurses Association
2022 – Present - The Coaching Fellowship
September 2022 - Celo Metaverse Accelerator
September 2022 - Accelerator at Dragonfly by SVB & IAF
July 2021 - What If Mental Health Fellowship
November 2021 - CORO Leadership New York
2019-2020
AWARDS
- Healio Health Honoree 2022
- Celo Blockchain Foundation Innovating On Money Award 2021
- New York Health Business Leaders Health Care Hero Award 2021
- LinkedIn Leader of Nursing 2020