National Nurse Practitioner Week is an annual event that celebrates the contributions of nurse practitioners (NPs) and promotes their role in healthcare. This week is observed from November 10 to 16 each year, with the next celebration scheduled for 2024. We are proud of the hard work, clinical excellence and dedication to our clients that our three Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners bring to the table each and every day!
Read MoreDr. Antoinette Stewart is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist offering comprehensive psychiatric services, including medication management and telehealth evaluations, with a specialization in depression, anxiety, mood disorders, ADHD, OCD, PTSD, general mental health concerns and eating disorders.
Read MoreStarting January 1, 2024, Medicare will cover mental health care services provided by marriage & family therapists and mental health counselors for the first time.
Read MorePetitecha Wimbush is a Board Certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. She believes mental wellness can be achieved through medication management, therapy, and complementary/alternative treatment to improve the health of the mind-body connection. Petitecha is an Army veteran of 20 years and currently serves in the Army Reserve Nurse Corps. During her active duty nursing career, Petitecha worked in various areas of nursing, but her passion was mental health. She worked as a sexual assault medical forensic examiner. She earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing from the illustrious HBCU and Mecca, Howard University in 2012 and her Masters in Nursing at Virginia Commonwealth University. Petitecha completed her clinical training at a Counseling practice providing medication management to the pediatric, adolescent, and adult population with multiple disorders. She also completed her training at a Community Service Board to patients across the lifespan. These services were also provided to individuals at the regional jail, group homes, and a crisis center providing medication management. Her areas of treatment for medication management are PTSD (including veterans), depression, anxiety, bipolar, schizophrenia, child and adult ADHD, personality disorders and other mood disorders.
Read MoreSamantha Moussari, PMHNP-BC offers psychiatry services at our Glen Allen, Virginia office.
Read MoreWhy are conversations important? How can I enhance my professional communication skills? How can I communicate more effectively with friends and family? How come developing my communication skills is important and why does it matter?
Read MoreSuccessful therapy cannot claim its definition within just a single concept; it is founded on a wonderful complexity, and is subjectively defined to the elements the client and therapist decide success to be.
Breaking addiction, overcoming grief/loss, championing confidence, deciding to trust again, and managing trauma make up just a few aspects needed to claim that success was achieved. In my practice, the initial mission is for us to quickly discover the swirl of goals waiting for you along the way of your therapy journey.
Read MoreWhile we establish localized communities, cultures and connections with others that hold similar beliefs, values, and interests we also have a collective consciousness that permeates cultural differences and boundaries.
Never in our lives have we experienced something so global and universal that we share the same thoughts and feelings with those around us creating a more tightly woven collective consciousness that permeates cultural differences and boundaries. I have never seen a greater example of how the human race can have such a ubiquitous experience.
Read MoreAre you a Starbucks Employee? As of April 1st, 2020 your mental health benefits are covered by Lyra. Our Practice participates with Lyra so you now have access to one of our clinicians at no cost to you.
Read MoreMany of our clients are relying on our services being delivered via Telehealth during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Recently there have been various articles surrounding security and privacy concerns with certain platforms being used for Telehealth Counseling. Many rules and regulations have been relaxed to allow healthcare providers to use various methods of delivering services during this time. However; this has come with some unintended consequences related to privacy and security.
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