Kirby was born and raised in Chicago, and a proud deep dish pizza enthusiast. She is a lover of travel, food and lifelong learning. Her journey in nursing started in 2006 as a registered nurse in Phoenix, Arizona working on a trauma unit, where she witnessed numerous times the intersection of trauma and mental health symptoms. These initial years in the nursing field sparked her interest in mental health conditions and treatment. She returned to school in 2009 to complete her Masters of Science in Nursing with a psychiatric mental health nursing concentration and successfully completed this degree from University of Virginia in 2011. For a little more over a decade she has been providing psych mental health care to adult populations in various treatment settings. In 2022, she started providing private mentorship and career consulting services to PMHNPs through her business Beacon Behavioral Health and Consulting. This career path has led to the realization that her greatest passions include community mental health care and supporting new PMHNPs to become more confident and capable mental health providers.

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