Deidra Howard, PMHNP Psychiatry

Deidra Howard, PMHNP

Psychiatric Provider

License verified Insurance accepted No referral necessary Background check complete Accepting new patients

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

ADHD Anxiety Disorders Chronic Health Conditions Depression Eating Disorders Mood Disorders Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD) Personality Disorders Suicidality

Languages

English

Identity

Female She/Her/Hers

Culture & faith

African American Diasporic or Black Culture

Credentials

PHNP

States served

Insurances accepted

Aetna All Savers Allegiance Benefit Plan Management Allied Benefit Systems Allwell By Wellcare Ambetter AmeriHealth Administrators (non-Medicaid plans) Anthem Blue Cross California Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas Blue Shield of California Carelon Behavioral Health Cigna ConnectiCare Detroit Diesel (Carelon) Felra and UFCW Health and Welfare Fund (Carelon) GEHA Healthscopes Imperial County Schools (Carelon) Independence Blue Cross (IBX) Magellan
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