Michelle C. Foote Pearce, LPC-MHSP, RN, D.Min.
Associate in Psychiatry
michelle.c.pearce@vanderbilt.edu
Dr. Michelle Pearce has been a member of the faculty since 2009. She is an integrative health psychotherapist at Vanderbilt’s Center for Integrative Health.
Education
DMin, Graduate Theological Foundation (Health Care Ministry)
MA, Trevecca Nazarene University (Counseling)
MSN, Yale University (Oncology Nursing)
Areas of Clinical Expertise
Dr. Pearce also retains a license as an RN and has extensive clinical and teaching experience as an oncology clinical nurse specialist and nurse educator. Her clinical expertise combines areas of physical, psychological/emotional, and spiritual health and includes: integrative health, mindfulness-based psychotherapy, meaning-centered psychotherapy, and EMDR.
Research interests
Mindfulness and health: effects of mindfulness-based therapies and practices on health, prevention, recovery, and management of illness; relationship of meaning and purpose with well-being and health; use of relationship and positive emotions in illness prevention, symptom management, and physical and emotional healing
Representative publications
1. Pearce, M. (2009, in press). Beyond the Rational Mind: The Revelation of Secular Spirituality. Mishawaka, IN: The Victoria Press.
2. Pearce, M. (2005). Appeal and application of Logotherapy in Parish Nursing. The International Forum for Logotherapy, 28 (1), 26-30.
3. Foote, M., Sexton, D.L., Pawlik, L. (1986). Dyspnea: A distressing sensation experienced by patients with lung cancer. Oncology Nursing Forum, 13 (5), 25-31.
4. Foote, M. (1986). Book review on Cancer care protocols for hospital and home use. Patient Education and Counseling, 8 (4), 431-432.
5. Foote, M. (1985). Nursing care of the patient with non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma: Prevention of pneumonia associated with combination chemotherapy. Cancer Nursing, 8 (5), 263-271.
