Welcome to Balance Psychiatry & Mental Health, a Professional Nursing Corporation.

“Balance is not something you find; it is something you create” - Jana Kingsford

Compliments to you for embarking on your journey to create balance in your mind-body-spirit.

I am glad you are here. 

At Balance Psychiatry & Mental Health, I offer comprehensive Psychiatric and Mental Health services to children, adolescents and adults. 

I specialize in working with women and young women who need help with Women's Issues, Medication Management, Pregnancy/Prenatal/Postpartum Mood Disorders, Abortion Grief/Issues, Depression/Anxiety/Bipolar Disorders, Prolonged Grief, Substance Use Disorders, Trauma/PTSD, Sexual Abuse, Sex/Human Trafficking, Intimate Partner Violence and Domestic Violence.

I am a welcoming, open-minded and compassionate Dual Board Certified Family Nurse Practitioner and Psychiatric & Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and I would be honored to collaborate and support you as you embrace your healing journey and move toward mental health wellness.

This space is your space.

I use an integrative, eclectic and holistic, trauma-informed therapeutic approach weaving together person-centered therapy, judicious medication-management and responsiveness to your needs arising out of the biological, psychological and social dimensions of your experience.

• to help you recover and heal

• to help you build resilience and regain balance

• to promote your highest functioning

• to educate and counsel you and your family

• to increase your mental health awareness and reduce any stigma associated with your mental healthcare

Together we can explore how imbalance(s) of your mind-body-spirit can affect you and your relationships.

You are safe here.

“The key to keeping your balance is knowing when you've lost it.” – Anonymous

If you or your child/adolescent are experiencing any of the following signs and symptoms of imbalance, please know you have come to a safe place:

• Extreme mood changes, including uncontrollable “highs” or feelings of euphoria
• Prolonged or strong feelings of irritability or anger
• Avoiding friends and social activities
• Difficulties understanding or relating to other people
• Changes in sleeping habits or feeling tired and low energy
• Changes in eating habits such as increased hunger or lack of appetite
• Changes in sex drive
• Difficulty perceiving reality (delusions or hallucinations, in which a person experiences and senses things that don't exist in objective reality)
• Inability to perceive changes in one’s own feelings, behavior, or personality (lack of insight)
• Overuse of substances like alcohol or drugs
• Multiple physical ailments without obvious causes (such as headaches, stomach aches, vague and ongoing “aches and pains”)
• Thinking about suicide
• Inability to carry out daily activities or handle daily problems and stress

My Philosophy