Émilie Provost is a Mental Health Nurse Practitioner working for the Douglas Mental Health University Institute in Montreal. She currently works in the external bipolar disorder clinic of the institute, specializing in a clientele majorly composed of individuals suffering from schizoaffective disorder. She did her practitioner’s residency at the Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Montréal, with internships including long-term patient hospitalization and rehabilitation, emergency care, the forensic inpatient psychiatry department and the external clinics for psychotic and mood disorders. She is presently doing research for the Douglas Mental Health University Institute and is a research and teaching assistant at the Université de Montréal.