Learning how to prescribe isn't the same as learning how to deprescribe.

A patient wants to come off a medication. They’ve tried before, felt worse, and were told that meant they needed it. Now you’re trying to sort out what happened: was it withdrawal? Relapse? Side effects? Another medical issue? Or several things at once?

You need time to understand the history, follow their response, and adjust the plan. But your schedule barely allows time to refill the prescription.

And when the picture gets complicated, who do you call? You need colleagues who understand withdrawal, can discuss competing explanations, and are willing to sit with discomfort, all while helping you think through the next step.

You want to offer this care, but you need more education, professional support, and a workable way to provide it. Because let's face it, we were not taught how to safely taper or deprescribe in school.

Provider Deprescribing Consultation Group

Bring your cases, questions, observations, and the situations you’re still trying to make sense of. We meet every other week to discuss tapering, withdrawal, and the practical challenges of providing this care. A private Telegram thread keeps the conversation going between calls and gives you a place to reach out on those clinic days when you need extra support.

Every other month, we'll have a featured guest speaker, who will bring clinical expertise or firsthand experience of psychiatric medication withdrawal to the table. These conversations give us a chance to learn from both professionals and the people receiving this care.

Membership is $250/month and is open to prescribers across all disciplines following a consultation call and professional license verification.

The Holistic Art of Deprescribing

A four-month cohort primarily for NPs who want deeper clinical education and help establishing or reshaping their own practice. MDs are welcome, too.

You’ll learn my whole-person approach to assessment, individualized tapering, and ongoing support through education, Q&A, and case discussion. You’ll also experience The Clearing, my eight-week lifestyle medicine program and nervous system reset, with health-coach-led groups, so you understand the work you’ll learn to guide your patients through.

We’ll address how to organize visits, follow-up, communication, and team support, with practical templates and patient education materials you can use in your practice. Consultation-group membership is included throughout the cohort.

For FNP and PMHNP Students

If you’re an FNP or PMHNP student interested in a clinical preceptorship with White Oak Medicine, you’ll gain experience in an NP-owned practice that brings medical and mental health care together, including whole-person assessment, safe tapering, health coaching, and our lifestyle medicine program designed to support nervous system regulation. We prioritize placements across multiple semesters so you have time to learn our systems, follow patients, and gradually take on more responsibility.

About Veronica

I’m a family and psychiatric nurse practitioner, and like most providers, I got into this work because I wanted to help people.

Over time, I started questioning whether some of what I was doing was actually helping. I saw symptoms become diagnoses, diagnoses become prescriptions, and medication effects become reasons for more medication. I was working in a system where the pressure to keep visits moving and revenue coming in often took priority over understanding what was happening to the person in front of me.

My year-and-a-half holistic psychiatry fellowship helped me realize I wasn’t alone. Other providers were seeing these problems, asking similar questions, and finding different ways to practice.

When I first started speaking about this on social media, I was terrified of being canceled for questioning pharmaceutical companies and the healthcare system I’d been trained to work in. Mentorship helped me learn how to speak honestly without insulting people. Most of us entered healthcare with good intentions. We can question what we’ve been taught and the systems we work in without attacking each other.

Once I started speaking, it was empowering. And the more I learned, the harder it became to keep practicing the same way. I tell patients this all the time: once you see something, you can’t unsee it. How could I keep participating in care I believed was causing harm and still lay my head on the pillow at night?

Eventually, I realized I had a choice about how I practiced.

But choosing differently didn’t mean I knew how to navigate every situation. When I first started deprescribing, I didn’t have colleagues I could talk to about this stuff. Some thought I was crazy for wanting to taper psychiatric meds at all. I needed somewhere to discuss what I was seeing, ask questions, and work through difficult decisions with people who understood both why I was doing this and that I had a license to protect.

The people I knew in the tapering world understood tapers, but not the responsibilities that came with my license. My colleagues understood those responsibilities, but not the tapers. I needed both.

That’s why I created this prescriber consultation space. A place to bring uncertainty, concerns, mistakes, and complicated cases, with colleagues willing to listen, set their judgments aside, and think through things with you.

Whether you’re already supporting tapers, want to change how you practice, or are still in NP training, White Oak offers opportunities to learn this work alongside others.