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Although carefully chosen medications can quickly achieve much needed relief of anxiety, depression, insomnia and trauma symptoms, a thorough and comprehensive psychiatric diagnostic evaluation can also identify many opportunities for improvement without the need for medications. The most effective treatment plan may include maximizing work-life balance, nutrition and sleep strategies, learning to address, avoid or adapt to triggers, in addition to multiple psychotherapies, including CBT, DBT & EMDR.

When medications are warranted, I recommend those with the lowest side effects, easiest to use, most predictably effective & not addictive. Ultimately, it is up to each individual to make the final decisions on which strategies they will use.

I have extensive experience working with patients with psychiatric & behavioral issues in outpatient & inpatient settings, including child, adolescent, adult & geriactric acute care, reactive attachment, long-term adolescent residential care, chemical dependency & inpatient rehabilitation treatment centers. I encourage patients to fully utilize non-medication strategies to achieve the best therapeutic benefits with the safest medication possible.

Eileen is a licensed Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner with many years of graduate and post-graduate education, earning Masters degrees in both Nursing and Social Work.

She is Board Certified as both Adult Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner and Family Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner with extensive experience with comprehensive psychiatric diagnostic evaluations and prescriptive authority for independent psychiatric medication management.