From Pills to Skills: Transforming Mental Health Through Cognitive Restructuring with Chelsea Landolin

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What if you could teach your patients to be their own therapists? Chelsea Landolin, psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner from UCSF (University of California-San Fransisco: [email protected]), reveals how cognitive behavioral therapy creates lasting change beyond medication alone.
Chelsea shares her fascinating journey from psychopharmacology researcher to CBT advocate, describing that pivotal moment watching Carl Rogers' therapeutic approach with 'Gloria' and recognizing how empowering the right therapy can be. Her candid explanation of how our brains process negative thoughts literally—"When you say 'I'm a failure,' your brain believes it completely"—offers a compelling case for cognitive restructuring as an essential skill for mental health providers.
The conversation explores a powerful success story of an elderly patient who transformed decades of self-criticism through CBT, developing a gentler relationship with herself as she learned to challenge core beliefs about her worth. Chelsea's innovative approach adapts traditional CBT to fit into brief clinical encounters, making therapy accessible even in busy settings. "If you only have five minutes to do cognitive restructuring, you can make meaningful progress," she explains, describing how separating treatment over multiple sessions often deepens the therapeutic impact.
Most provocatively, Chelsea highlights how nurse practitioners are uniquely positioned to address America's mental health access crisis. While psychiatrists increasingly focus on medication management alone, NPs can bridge the treatment gap, especially for Medicare patients typically excluded from many therapy options. Her vision? A future where every psychiatric nurse practitioner receives comprehensive CBT training, dramatically expanding access to this life-changing therapy nationwide.
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Dr Dan Wesemann

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Website: https://nursing.uiowa.edu/academics/dnp-programs/psych-mental-health-nurse-practitioner

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-wesemann

Dr Kate Melino

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Dr Sean Convoy

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Dr Kendra Delany

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Dr Melissa Chapman

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1. From Pills to Skills: Transforming Mental Health Through Cognitive Restructuring with Chelsea Landolin (00:00:00)

2. Introductions and Podcast Milestone (00:00:27)

3. Chelsea's Path to Psychotherapy (00:02:11)

4. The Gloria Tapes and Rogerian Approach (00:06:00)

5. From Pharmacology to Cognitive Therapy (00:08:55)

6. CBT Success Story with Older Patients (00:17:07)

7. Nurses as Leaders in Psychotherapy (00:26:30)

8. The Future of Psychotherapy Access (00:34:10)