Who We Care For
Leaders & Professionals
Executives, physicians, attorneys, founders, and the professionals others depend on. Care for burnout, anxiety, depression, and stuck points, including while you're still performing.
Eating Disorder Recovery
People navigating eating disorders across all bodies, genders, and presentations. Weight-inclusive psychiatric care, coordinated with your dietitian and therapist.
Psyched was built for people who carry a lot, and for the pillars in their corner masking behind a brave façade
Every person has their own care plan, and what you share stays yours.
Athletes
College and professional athletes and coaches, cared for by a clinician who knows the athlete identity from the inside.
The Ones in Their Corner
Partners holding down the home front, parents of teen and young-adult athletes and high performers, best friends, and colleagues receive their own individual, confidential care here too. And if the person you're worried about insists he's fine, share this page with him. Sometimes the first step is someone who cares saying it out loud.
The Men Who Say They're Fine
Those whose mind won't shut off at 2 a.m. The ones who re-checks, re-reads, and re-plans until it's right, and calls it being thorough. The guy who's still performing at work, while the people closest to him (a partner, kids, his bro's, a friend, his team) notice he's shorter, quieter, or never off. Or the individual who comes home to a quiet house and figures there's no one to notice. Discreet, efficient, evidence-based care for anxiety, OCD, depression, executive dysfunction, and the pressure you've learned to carry alone. No couch required, just a plan that works.
Women in the Middle of It All
Building the business, running the household, or both, and suddenly the anxiety is louder, sleep is thinner, and focus isn’t what it was. It isn’t “just stress,” and you’re not imagining it. Psychiatric care for the mood, anxiety, sleep, and energy changes of perimenopause and midlife, including ADHD that gets harder to manage as hormones shift, coordinated with your menopause provider. You deserve a clinician who connects the dots between your mental health and your hormones.
Insurance And Access
OCTOBER 2026
Psyched is joining forces with Collaborative Psychiatry.
Beginning October 2026, Summer Lawson, MSN, APRN-CNP, PMHNP-BC, MSW will be practicing full-time within this expanded partnership — bringing our concierge precision-psychiatry model together with broader clinical resources and insurance access. Scheduling is now open.
Three ways to begin care:
Pathway I · Collaborative Psychiatry: Aetna, Cigna, Medical Mutual of Ohio, Humana (commercial), Ohio Healthy, Devoted Health
Pathway II · Insurance Network Partners (GrowTherapy & Headway): AmeriHealth, BCBS OH, GEHA, UHC/Optum, VA CCN, Carelon, Curative, Horizon BCBS NJ, Oscar, Oxford, The Health Plan
Pathway III · Psyched directly: Lyra Health, OSU employee and student plans, existing and transferring Anthem patients, and concierge care
PMHNP-BC
MSN + MSW
Board Certified · ANCC · Since 2021
20+ YEARS
Dual Graduate · Ohio State University
Full Continuum of Psychiatric Care
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Executive Consulting · Peer Leadership
Some people manage their minds. Others optimize them. The distance between those two words is the distance between a life half-lived and a life fully inhabited.
THE OPTIMAL MIND
I
The Optimal Mind
When the mind operates at its peak, everything else follows. Twenty years of clinical precision in service of one outcome: your mind at its optimal.
II
The Optimal Foundation
Your biology is not a footnote. It is the foundation of every decision you make, every relationship you inhabit, every morning you meet. When the foundation is right the life built on it has no ceiling.
III
The Optimal Standard
Summer Lawson brings twenty years at the frontier of psychiatric medicine to speaking engagements, executive consultation, and professional education.
MEDIA · SPEAKING · RECOGNITION
Summer Lawson has been featured across national and regional media including
ABC · CBS · Fox · NBC · ESPN 2 · Comcast · Columbus Brides · Sega.