Keisha Marsolan, MSN, PMHNP-BC

  • I created this practice for individuals seeking a more thoughtful, root-cause approach to mental health.

    As a psychiatric nurse practitioner, I saw how often mental health care becomes centered on symptom management and medication changes without fully addressing the broader picture of what may be influencing a person’s well-being. Over time, I became increasingly aware of how difficult and destabilizing it can be for many people to reduce or discontinue psychiatric medications, especially when tapering is done too quickly or without the right support.

    This work also became deeply personal for me.

    After experiencing severe protracted withdrawal from antidepressants myself, I was forced into a very different understanding of psychiatric medications, withdrawal, nervous system injury, and healing. That experience changed the course of my life and led me on a journey to better understand hyperbolic tapering, withdrawal syndromes, metabolic health, and the broader foundations that can influence mental wellness and recovery.

    Because of that, I bring not only professional training to this work, but also personal understanding. I know how frightening, isolating, and life-altering withdrawal can be. I know what it feels like to search for answers, to realize how misunderstood withdrawal often is, and to recognize how much the body and nervous system may need support along the way.

    My practice was built to offer something different.

    I help patients improve the foundations of health while carefully supporting the continuation and, when appropriate, gradual tapering of existing psychiatric medications. My work focuses on psychiatric deprescribing, hyperbolic tapering, metabolic health, and whole-person healing. I am also certified in Ketogenic Metabolic Therapy, which allows me to incorporate metabolic and therapeutic nutrition strategies into care in a more intentional and informed way.

  • I believe mental health is influenced by much more than symptoms alone.

    Sleep, nutrition, blood sugar regulation, inflammation, movement, stress, nervous system stability, and overall metabolic health can all affect how a person feels mentally and physically. Because of that, my approach is not limited to medications. I look at the bigger picture and help patients build a stronger physiological foundation for healing.

    This may include metabolic lab review, nutrition guidance, lifestyle support, and individualized planning around sleep, exercise, and stress recovery.

    I also believe that tapering psychiatric medications should be approached with care, humility, and respect for how sensitive the brain and nervous system can be. For many individuals, tapering is not a quick process. It may take months or even years and requires a gradual, personalized approach.

  • This is not a traditional medication-management practice.

    I do not primarily focus on adding new psychiatric medications. Instead, I work with patients who want support around their current medications while exploring a more root-cause path to mental health. I may continue prescribing current psychiatric medications during stabilization and tapering, but new psychiatric medications are generally not initiated as part of ongoing care. Schedule II stimulant medications are not prescribed in this practice.

    My practice also uses a hyperbolic tapering approach, which means medication reductions are made in smaller and more individualized steps, especially as doses get lower. This is intended to better support the nervous system and reduce the risk of withdrawal-related destabilization.

  • I work with individuals who are seeking support with:

    • careful tapering of existing psychiatric medications

    • metabolic health and mental health support

    • stabilization before beginning a taper

    • nutrition and lifestyle strategies that may support healing

    • whole-person care that goes beyond a quick medication check

    Depending on the individual, this may include personalized approaches to nutrition such as whole-food, paleo, low-carbohydrate, ketogenic, or carnivore frameworks, along with attention to sleep, movement, and stress recovery.

  • My goal is to provide care that is thoughtful, honest, individualized, and supportive.

    I want patients to feel informed, respected, and never rushed. This work often requires patience, partnership, and a willingness to look deeper than symptom suppression alone. Because of both my professional background and my personal experience, I approach this work with deep respect for how real, complex, and life-disrupting psychiatric withdrawal can be.

    If you are seeking a more intentional and whole-person path, my practice may be a good fit for you.

    Let’s See If This Is the Right Fit

    If you are looking for support with psychiatric tapering, metabolic mental health, and a slower, more thoughtful approach to healing, I invite you to schedule a 15-minute discovery call ($75) to see if working together feels like the right fit.

About Keisha

Hi, I'm Keisha. I'm a psychiatric nurse practitioner, and I founded Anchored Metabolic Psychiatry because I lived through something I had no clinical framework for — and I want to make sure other people don't have to figure it out alone the way I did.

A few years into my own career as a psych NP, I came off an antidepressant and ended up in severe protracted withdrawal. For about ten months, I had no idea what was happening to me. I was a trained clinician, and I still didn't recognize it. That's how invisible this is in mainstream psychiatry. I went into full research mode, and slowly the picture came together — hyperbolic tapering, nervous system sensitization, the long tail of withdrawal that almost no one talks about in school or in practice.

That experience changed everything about how I think about psychiatric medications. It changed how I think about informed consent, about the speed at which we taper, about what we call "relapse" versus what is actually withdrawal, and about how much the body and brain need real support — not just a prescription pad — to heal.

Anchored Metabolic Psychiatry is the practice I wish I'd had access to during my own hardest months. My work centers on:

  • Hyperbolic, individualized psychiatric medication tapering when clinically appropriate

  • Support for people in protracted withdrawal

  • Metabolic psychiatry and ketogenic metabolic therapy when appropriate

  • Whole-person care that takes nutrition, sleep, movement, stress, inflammation, and nervous system regulation seriously

  • Honest, plain-language conversations about risks, benefits, and what tapering actually looks like

I'm licensed in Texas and see patients virtually across the state. For people outside of Texas, I offer an education-only coaching membership focused on metabolic mental wellness and general deprescribing education — not clinical care.

If you've been dismissed, rushed, or told that what you're feeling "isn't a real thing," I want you to know that I believe you, and I understand what it's like to feel that way from both sides of the prescription pad. I'd be honored to walk through this with you.

— Keisha Marsolan, MSN, PMHNP-BC Founder, Anchored Metabolic Psychiatry

Credentials & Training

Education

  • Master of Science in Nursing, Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner — Walden University

  • Bachelor of Science in Nursing — Walden University

Licenses (Texas Board of Nursing)

  • Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN)

  • Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP)

  • Registered Nurse (RN)

Board Certification

  • PMHNP-BC — Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner–Board Certified, issued by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)

Additional Clinical Training

  • Ketogenic Diets for Mental Health Clinician Training — Diagnosis Diet, taught by Dr. Georgia Ede, MD

  • Psychiatric medication tapering, deprescribing, and protracted withdrawal training — with Harvard-trained Dr. Josef Witt-Doerring