

Hi, I’m a board-certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner with over 20 years of nursing experience across acute care, leadership, and education. I’ve worked with children, adolescents, and adults managing depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, ADHD, trauma, and complex mental health needs. My approach is warm, collaborative, and practical. I believe in meeting people where they are and creating a safe space to be heard. Together, we’ll build a treatment plan that feels realistic, supportive, and centered around your goals.
I am a dedicated mental health clinician with extensive experience supporting individuals across a wide range of clinical needs. My work has included treating patients with substance use disorders, dual diagnoses, PTSD, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder (BPD), anxiety, depression among others. I have a strong background in both community-based mental health settings and outpatient substance use treatment programs, including Intensive Outpatient Programs (IOP) and Level 1 care.
My approach to therapy is collaborative, compassionate, and tailored to each individual.
Whether we are searching for complete happiness; trying to find our life’s purpose or just trying to gather the strength to make it through one more day, we all want to live our most fulfilling lives with less doubt and worry and more love and happiness...and fun! I am passionate about creating a safe and supportive space for us to explore, understand, and reconcile any disturbances within you.
I have over 20 years of experience as an Expressive Arts Therapist working with adults, families and adolescents focusing on trauma, anxiety, loss and life transitions. As a former educator I help you understand the Why, as an artist I use creativity and mindfulness at your level of comfort to offer tools for you to heal. Always led by compassion and enthusiasm for helping you create wellness throughout your life. For more information; www.ckcreativwellness.com


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