Getting to Know Joan
Joan Landino is a mental health therapist and an expert in mental health treatment specializing over the last 28 years in depression, bipolar, and anxiety disorders. She also has extensive experience in the treatment of co-occurring alcohol & substance dependence.
Her educational & clinical background are significant for the same, including receiving her RN degree from Quinnipiac University in 1984 with an uninterrupted work history in psychiatry including Yale Psychiatric Institute, The Institute of Living, Yale New Haven Psychiatric Hospital & South Central Rehabilitation Center.
While working, Joan also returned to school & received a Masters in Forensic Science from the University of New Haven in 2001, with a specialty as a medico-legal death investigator. Always drawn to the survivors at the scene, Joan decided to complete her Masters in Nursing and graduated from Columbia University as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. Her goal is to offer more specialized treatment, for what she calls “perhaps the most underserved clientele of the medical community.”
Joan references, for example, a National Institute of Mental Health statistic (NIMH) that the total economic burden of Depression alone – setting aside consideration of every other psychiatric diagnosis – is greater than the cost of treating all cancer’s combined.
Background & Affiliations
Joan is also an entrepreneur, founding her own private practice in 2005 as an APRN and cofounder of Integrated Psychiatric Services in 2008. She is a holistic caregiver offering psychotherapy and psychopharmacologic interventions specializing in DNA guided medicine. She also incorporates nutrition and life style changes with a goal of biopsycosocial wellness. Joan has been a mentor to her peers, a clinical instructor for masters preparing students from Columbia University, while always teaching and empowering her clients to be active participants in their healthcare. Joan offers pro bono care to promote social wellness in her community.
Joan is a guardian member of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM). She is a prescriber who values PCRM’s work to promote safer drugs for consumers by urging the FDA to mandate the use of scientifically proven alternatives to animal testing. Joan is a published author in the United States and the United Kingdom and has appeared on local radio to promote DNA-based psychiatric practices and to advance the cause of the uninsured and under-insured who suffer mental illness.
As a member of Farm Sanctuary’s Friends of Hilda Club, Joan is a leader in providing critical resources for the rescue, education, and advocacy work that Farm Sanctuary carries out on behalf of the billions of farm animals who suffer terrible abuse and cruelty in the factory farming system in the United States. Through her work as a Vegan Life Coach and as a vegan herself, Joan promotes a compassionate lifestyle that includes a reverence for all life.
