Michelle Kahn-John, PhD, RN, PMHNP-BC, GNP, a nurse for 22 years and a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner for 17, has spent most of her career working with the Indian Health Service on the Navajo Nation in Arizona. In 2005, she led efforts to establish the first inpatient adolescent psychiatric unit for American Indians on a reservation, where cultural wisdom and healing were integrated into the treatment model. Her work continues to shed light on the beauty and the value in Native American cultural wisdom and healing practices.
