​​Like Juliana, I am a second-career nurse, having previously worked in various roles in banking and finance. At a low point in my career, I realized it was time to do something more meaningful to me, and I entered a nursing program, working my way through school to finally become a nurse practitioner. For several years before becoming a nurse practitioner, I worked as a psychiatric registered nurse at McLean Hospital. I was fortunate enough to also train there while studying to become a nurse practitioner.

In my capacity as a nurse at McLean, I frequently ran therapeutic groups, shadowed group therapists, trained newer nurses and mental health specialists, and collaborated on interdisciplinary teams of psychiatrists, social workers, and nursing staff. My nursing practice brought me to inpatient psychiatric units where I learned to treat and care for patients with depression, anxiety, PTSD, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia. I was later promoted to the role of Nursing Program Director on the McLean Hospital’s Trauma & Dissociative Disorders Inpatient Unit, where I collaborated with a multidisciplinary team in treating a diverse population of patients and psychiatric diagnosis.

My mission is to provide psychiatric care to a diverse population of individuals who are on their journey to wellness and don’t know where else to turn. My goal is to reduce the stigma in asking for help, especially in populations who often get overlooked by society’s majority populations.

My Approaches and Values

My experience allows me to work with individuals struggling with psychiatric conditions including depression, anxiety, PTSD, emerging personality disorders, and finally, bipolar/schizophrenia-spectrum disorders. My clinical practice aims to gain an open and straightforward, yet gentle and compassionate understanding of who you are, what your needs are, and then to devise an evidence-based plan together during which we discuss several medication options so that you can safely decide for yourself how treatment should proceed. I will always challenge you in our sessions to speak freely to allow our sessions to be a safe space and to allow you to give feedback or provide insight as to how you feel about the status of the plan we develop together. This will help me to be a better provider for you, and it will help you feel empowered in your medical decision making.

My sessions incorporate brief, therapeutic interventions, and discussions of skills to use in times of crisis. The primary modalities used in my sessions are CBT, DBT/mindfulness, and motivational interviewing.

My Experience

Amoskeag Health, Manchester, NH: Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner working in a primary care setting.

Harriet Johnson & Associates, Bourne, MA: Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner working in a primary mental health clinic.

University of Massachusetts, Boston: Psychiatric Mental Health Clinical Adjunct Faculty

McLean Hospital, Belmont MA: Inpatient Staff Nurse, Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Program and the Resource Team (Dissociative Disorders and Trauma, Geriatric Neuropsychiatry, Addiction Treatment, Depression and Anxiety Treatment).

BMC HealthNet – Nurse Care Manager, ensuring a full scope of services were available to patients in the community.

Innovive Health (previously known as Nizhoni Health), Somerville, MA: Primary Nurse Case Manager providing RN homecare visits for psychiatric patients who are disabled and homebound

My Education

Rivier University, Nashua, NH – Master of Science in Nursing – January, 2021

Southern New Hampshire University, Hookset, NH – Bachelor of Science in Nursing – January, 2018

Bunker Hill Community College, Charlestown, MA – Associate Degree in Nursing – May, 2015

Bentley University, Waltham, MA – Master of Business Administration – May, 2002

Bentley University, Waltham, MA – Bachelor of Arts, International Studies – May, 2001

Licenses:

Massachusetts RN License

Massachusetts APRN License

New Hampshire RN License

New Hampshire APRN License

New York State RN License