Jamie Sorenson

Jamie Sorenson grew up in and near Missoula, MT giving her a love for the beauty of nature. She enlisted in the Navy in July 1995. She was enlisted until 2004 then became a commissioned officer.

As a nurse she has worked in the following areas: oncology, primary care, post-surgical, substance abuse treatment and mental health.

She attended graduate school at The University of Virginia (UVA) where her primary area of focus was forensic psychiatry and while at UVA she volunteered for the Virginia Sexual Assault Resource Agency as a resource agent for individuals who had been sexually assaulted.

As a psychiatric mental health clinical nurse specialist and nurse practitioner she has worked in the following areas: Inpatient Mental Health Units, Substance Abuse Rehabilitation Programs, PTSD Residential Treatment Center, Outpatient Mental Health Nursing, Humanitarian Mental Health providing mental health care and subject matter expertise to multiple countries in Southeast Asia. In Japan she also worked in executive medicine and as a hospitalist. In Germany she was the sole medical provider at the Warrior Transition Program providing medical, nursing and mental health treatment to Sailors returning from combat and operational deployments.

Currently she has been selected for Commander and is working as the first hand selected embedded Mental Health Provider to provide care and implement positive psychology programs to the submarine sailors attached to Commander, Submarine Squadron Eleven in San Diego, CA. She focuses much of her care on wellness and preventative education.

She was selected to be the first psychiatric nurse practitioner to deploy in lieu of a psychiatrist on a Navy vessel for the 2012 Pacific Partnership deployment. On this deployment she served as the Mental Health Department Head providing care and subject matter expertise education to multiple different countries. She has again been name selected to redeploy in 2019 on another Navy vessel again providing mental health care and educational expertise to multiple different countries.

Jamie Sorenson has earned the following degrees: Associates in Applied Science from Vincennes University in 1998; Bachelors of Arts in Psychology and Bachelors of Science in Nursing from San Diego State University in May 2004; Master Certification in Health Psychology from Independence University California College of Health Sciences in April 2007; Masters of Science in Nursing from the University of Virginia in May 2010; and Post Masters of Science in Nursing from the University of Virginia in August 2010. Jamie Sorenson also has the following licenses and certifications: Board Certified Adult Psychiatric and Mental Health Nurse Practitioner; California Nurse Practitioner Furnishing License; Board Certified Adult Psychiatric and Mental Health Clinical Nurse Specialist; and Registered Nurse and Healthcare Provider Basic Life Support.

Jamie Sorenson has been an avid runner completing over 70 whole/half marathons. She has traveled to over 50 different countries and in addition to living in several different areas in the U.S.A. she has lived in Cuba, Japan and Germany. She also was selected by her civilian counterparts as the Psychiatric Advanced Practice Mental Health Nurse of the Year in 2013 by San Diego Psychiatric Nursing Society.

She is both an endometriosis and thyroid warrior.

After the release of her first book "Why You Tried to Kill Yourself" she started giving suicide prevention speeches.

She started writing as a therapeutic outlook after she and others endured remarkable work place abuse from bullies with power and control. This abuse was an anomaly and not at all her comprehensive experience in the military.

She adores her animals and has fostered several different dogs and cats in both Japan and California. She gives 10% of her royalties from the sales of "Single, Pitiful and Unlovable...Yeah Right!" to different animal rescues.