About Beyond Medicine

Meet the Founder

Amanda Faye founded Beyond Medicine-Patient Advocacy after her own struggles navigating the mental health care system and a case of medical malpractice arising from a lack of patient advocacy resulted in her permanent disability. Amanda openly shares about her ongoing struggles with mental illness with the hope that her openness helps to fight stigma and…

About Beyond Medicine

The story behind our logo

I launched Beyond Medicine-Patient Advocacy a year ago. My goal was to create an organization that could fight the injustices facing psychiatric patients. I took a year to put myself through a patient advocacy training program at UCLA Extension, and I earned a Certificate in Patient Advocacy. Receiving more formal education on direct patient advocacy…