Psychiatric Care for College, Nursing & Graduate Students
Care built around the realities of school: exams, clinical rotations, board prep, and heavy workloads. Telehealth anywhere in California, with evening and weekend times.
Why a student focus
Chester Profeta, PMHNP-BC, teaches at both the BSN and MSN PMHNP level. He works with students in demanding programs every week and knows what clinical rotations, long shifts, board exams, and heavy course loads actually ask of people.
That shapes how care is planned: visits scheduled around classes and clinicals, treatment timed around exam dates, and plans that account for early shifts, disrupted sleep, and programs where one exam can feel like everything.
What students come in for
Students most often come in for ADHD: losing focus while studying, procrastinating, and falling behind on readings. Many are dealing with test anxiety, blanking on exams or carrying the stress of the NCLEX, USMLE, or PANCE, and some are recognizing ADHD for the first time in college. Others need help with anxiety and panic attacks, depression and burnout, or trouble sleeping. BrainHelp also helps students get accommodations at school and supports them through taking, or returning from, a medical leave.
Students at San Jose State, Santa Clara University, and community colleges across the South Bay can be seen in person in San Jose or by telehealth from campus.
Students at every level
ADHD, anxiety, depression, college application stress, and IEP or 504 documentation.
Concentration problems, burnout, social anxiety, depression, and academic performance.
NCLEX anxiety, clinical performance stress, and getting through intensive programs.
PANCE preparation and the demands of accelerated training.
USMLE support and care designed around rotation schedules.
Dissertation pressure, imposter syndrome, and isolation in PhD and master's programs.
Accommodations and medical leave
After a full evaluation, BrainHelp can provide psychiatric documentation to help you access support you are entitled to:
- ✓Disability Services letters for colleges and graduate programs
- ✓Extended time and distraction-reduced testing
- ✓IEP and 504 plan documentation for K-12
- ✓Medical leave and return-to-school documentation
I'm here to help.
Chester Profeta, PMHNP-BC
I'm a board-certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner with over 16 years of healthcare experience, including inpatient psychiatry, outpatient psychiatric care, and teaching as a BSN and MSN PMHNP Clinical Instructor. I founded BrainHelp to help students and professionals who are held back not by a lack of ability, but by untreated ADHD, anxiety, depression, and burnout.
- ✓Listens to your full story, not just a checklist of symptoms
- ✓Medication is only one part of your treatment, alongside supportive therapy and practical strategies
- ✓Fits your schedule with evening and weekend telehealth across California