Brighid Gannon

Brighid Gannon, DNP, PMHNP-BC, is the co-founder of Lavender, the largest nurse-owned and operated telepsychiatry practice in the U.S. Lavender is reimagining how psychiatric care is delivered—making it more effortless, kind, and effective. The company is national, bootstrapped, and winner of the 2020 ANA Innovation Award. Brighid also founded Ivy Psychiatry, which brings psychiatric care to patients in skilled nursing facilities.

She earned her DNP from Yale and MSN from the University of Pennsylvania. Brighid has written for Forbes, served on the Clinical Advisory Board for Nice Healthcare, and appeared on the ANA’s See You Now podcast. She previously served as Associate Director of Behavioral Health at ICL’s Tillary Women’s Shelter in Brooklyn and was recognized with the 2022 ICL Hero Donor Award. She believes mental health is a human right and leads with the mindset: “You have to give to get.”