Dr. Judy E. Vansiea is an entrepreneur, owner, operator and a practitioner of Coping Nurse Practitioner in Psychiatry Services. She is licensed as a Nurse Practitioner in the specialty of Psychiatry in New York. Using a faith-based approach to mental health treatment, Dr. Vansiea founded her practice as a testament to her commitment to help people cope, adjust, and adapt to life’s adversities. Dr. Vansiea engages, encourages, and empowers men and women to find motivation and regain mental control by using healthy ways to cope with life’s challenging journey when experiencing mental illness or/and substance use disorders. One of the services of her practice is public speaking.
Dr. Vansiea is a dynamic inspirational speaker. She provides speaking engagements that aim to motivate and inspire your group, church event, convention, meeting, conference, or seminar. Dr. Vansiea has also given church Sunday messages and word of the cross messages as well on Good Friday. She was dedicated to God at an early age by her maternal grandparents Jehu and Amelia Stryker. Her late maternal grandmother was a Presbyterian minister too. As a youth she served as an acolyte and was involved in Sunday school and children choir. She also grew up teaching and providing services in vacation Bible School. She has served in roles in the church health ministry too. She has also served in roles such as former First Lady and Deacon of the church and at that time she established the first scholarship program in the church.
Dr. Vansiea uses her educational training as well as her personal experiences, to provide inspirational and motivational keynote speeches for churches and other organizations of faith, schools, colleges, and youth groups. Dr. Vansiea has worn and continues to wear many hats as a woman of faith, former wife, single mother, former faculty member, an author, nurse, provider, former Guardian Ad Litem, mediator, former first lady of the church, black and female leader and entrepreneur. She is also a former US Army First Lieutenant and served at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Dr. Vansiea understands, respects and values culture with diversity being a Liberian born and raised, growing up in NYC too and living and being educated in the South, Midwest and East-Coast.
Dr. Vansiea is a living, breathing, and walking proof of God’s grace, overcoming hardships and pain. She knows how it feels to be a nurse, patient, and provider and effectively shares her testimony to engage, encourage, and empower the lives of others. Through her words, she has the ability to uplift someone else’s life and elicit feelings of hope by sharing her own journey of struggle and perseverance. Through her work and inspiring talks, Dr. Vansiea hopes to break the stigma, labeling, and misconceptions surrounding mental health and the toll it takes on physical and emotional well-being.
