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Biography
Deidra is a certified a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, as well as a Family Nurse Practitioner with over 25 years of nursing experience in-patient and emergency psychiatry. She has worked in a variety of other settings, such as medical emergency, rehabilitation and wound care, home health, case management, geriatric outpatient residential, geriatric psychiatry (inpatient locked) and outpatient community care clinics. She believes in taking a holistic, mind, body, and spirit approach to addressing the root causes of your mental health symptoms and will develop a plan to move forward toward healing. She will listen carefully to your specific concerns and collaborate with you in developing a treatment plan that balances your physical and mental health.
Brightside offerings
Medication
Clinical Focus Areas
ADHDAnxiety DisordersChronic Health ConditionsDepressionEating DisordersMood DisordersObsessive-Compulsive (OCD)Personality DisordersSuicidality
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