A practice tailored to you

The first appointment is an hour, and most of it is listening. What has been happening, how long it has been going on, what you have already tried, and what you want to be different, before anyone proposes a plan.

From there, appointments are frequent enough to catch a problem early and spaced out once things are steady. Refills get handled between visits. If you have questions about a new medication, just call. No waiting weeks for the next opening.

• You see the same provider every visit, not whoever is available.
• Decisions are explained in plain language, and you are part of them. If you disagree with a plan, the room is the place to say so.
• Nothing is changed at a first visit simply because it is unfamiliar. If something is working, the plan is to keep it working.
• Care is coordinated with your therapist, your primary care provider, or your child's school when you want it to be, and not when you do not.
• What you are told about cost before a visit is what you will owe after it.

Children from age 6, teenagers, adults, and older adults. Service members, veterans, and military families make up a large share of the practice, and TRICARE is accepted for in-person and telehealth visits alike.

People arrive here for the first time in their lives, and people arrive after twenty years of treatment somewhere else. Both are ordinary.

Being clear about the edges saves people time and a wasted appointment.

• No weekly therapy. This practice provides psychiatric evaluation and medication management, and coordinates with therapists rather than replacing them.
• No psychological, neuropsychological, or educational testing.
• No emergency or crisis service. In a crisis, call or text 988, or call 911.

Where you need something this practice does not provide, you will be told so directly and pointed somewhere that does.

The office is in Jacksonville, and telehealth reaches anywhere in North Carolina. For patients in Richlands, Swansboro, Sneads Ferry, Hubert, and further out, that often makes the difference between getting care and giving up on the drive.

You can move between in-person and video visits in either direction at any point. Neither is treated as the lesser version.

Your provider is a board-certified psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP-BC), licensed in North Carolina, who personally oversees every evaluation, follow-up, and prescribing decision.

That continuity is what makes care feel personal. The person adjusting your medication is the same person who remembers what happened the last three times.