So, who am I?
I am a board-certified Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner from Reno, Nevada. What does that mean and what is psychiatry? Psychiatry is the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness. Treatment can include many things including medication, lifestyle changes, talk therapy, and emotional support. While I mainly focus on diagnosis and medical treatment, I incorporate therapeutic support, encouragement, discussing and processing your story, and talk therapy into every patient's treatment. I started my own practice to make our time exactly what it needs to be, for you.
My Background
A Reno native, I attended University of Nevada, Reno for both my undergraduate and graduate studies, where I specialized in mental health and psychiatry. I worked for five years as a registered nurse at Veterans Affairs in Reno before deciding to focus on mental health and psychiatry. Since that time, I have worked in outpatient settings, seeing patients of all ages (with a focus on children and adolescents), a crisis unit for acute psychiatric stabilization, and I currently work to provide mental-health consultation in local hospitals on medical units.