Bedre Health

Bedre Health is a small mental health practice offering psychiatric medication management for ages 13 and up and talk therapy for adults, with offices in Winchester and Peabody and secure video visits across Massachusetts. The name is Norwegian for “better,” pronounced BED-ruh. The practice was built around faster access, flexible scheduling and providers who treat the whole person, bringing psychiatry and family medicine into the same clinical lens so physical health is part of the story.

Founder John is a dual board-certified family and psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner with more than 30 years of clinical experience, trained at UMass. He treats anxiety, mood disorders, trauma, ADHD and more. The team includes psychiatric nurse practitioners with backgrounds at Boston Children’s Hospital and Mass General Brigham, a prescriber with pediatric and adolescent training, and therapists trained at Boston University and Boston College, one with McLean Hospital experience and another fluent in French.

What to Know

• No doctor referral is needed, and same-week appointments are typical.
• Most major insurance is accepted, including Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Point32, Optum and Medicare for medication management, and coverage is verified before the first visit.
• Telehealth licensing also extends to several other states, including New Hampshire, Vermont, Florida and Washington.
• The practice sums up its philosophy as “medicine is the life jacket, therapy is the swim lesson.”