Meet Our Team Of Healthcare Professionals

Qualified To Support Your Medical & Psychiatric Needs.

Our Mission:

Provide Patients The Most Comprehensive Psychiatric Treatment Services Available

ACELISE ALEXIS

MSN ARNP, PMHNP-BC, FNP-BC

Acelise understands the importance of working with people struggling from mental illness as well as working with their families. Acelise understands the ignominy involved with psychiatric disorders and the disease of addiction and the strength it takes to ask for help.

As a psychiatric nurse practitioner, family nurse practitioner, she utilizes an eclectic approach focused on meeting each individual’s needs. She understands the importance of compassion but also recognizes firm precincts when working with people suffering from mental illness and drug abuse disorders.

Not only that Acelise possesses advanced clinical skills but she also has learned a lot from her own life experiences, which has led to a passion for helping others. So, do not hesitate to call. You can live and manage your psychiatric symptoms without mental pain and/or suffering.

PROVIDER PROFILE

What was your path to becoming a psychiatric nurse practitioner?

I’m trained as a psychiatric nurse practitioner and have studied various aspects of psychotherapy. I often use supportive therapy when performing psychiatric evaluations and during management of new or existing clients. I rely on up-to-date research when treating clients and I understand that most clients do much better when medication is combined with psychotherapy. I have previous experience working in a hospital setting, an OBGYN clinic, behavioral health centers, and multiple treatment centers where I helped counsel women on menstruation, fertility, conception, pregnancy, and menopause. I have expertise on psychotropic medication, nursing principles, and clinical therapeutic models as well.

I understand the importance of working with people and families struggling with mental illness. I get the ignominy involved with psychiatric disorders and the disease of addiction and the strength it takes to ask for help. As a psychiatric nurse practitioner and a family nurse practitioner, I utilize an eclectic approach that is focused on meeting each individual’s needs. I have learned not only from working in the fields of medicine, mental health, and substance abuse disorders, but from my own life experience as well. All of this led to a passion for helping others.

My experience and my education have shown me that collaboration is the best way to care for patients and enhance their outcomes. Working as a nurse for over 17 years, I have seen what is appropriate and what is not appropriate when taking care of patients. When in doubt, it’s appropriate to consult with your colleagues. When other expertise is needed, it’s appropriate to consult with your supervisor or peers. As a clinician, I believe one of the best ways to care for my patients is to know and understand my limitations.

The advice that I always give my clients is this: First do what is best for you, your health, your family, and your loved ones; that decision will dictate what happens next. Most people are hesitant to try therapy because they do not understand what it entails. Although I focus more on evaluation and medication management, I also take time to explain to clients the benefits of psychotherapy. Research shows us that it can enhance the recovering process and help maintain a normal level of functioning.

I love the field of psychiatry because there are so many things one can choose to do. I think the most important part of the evolving health care landscape is changing the utilization patterns. People with mental illness have long been viewed as “not being normal” and the stigmatization associated with this and experienced by the patients is enormous. Some of my clients have verbalized the discomfort that they go through just trying to see a psychiatrist or even picking up their medication at the pharmacy. Changing utilization patterns and allowing clients to be seen from the comfort of their own homes without judgement from others is what I am most excited about.

“The most amazing and caring doctor I’ve ever had the pleasure of meeting. She’s very understanding and genuinely cares for your wellbeing. I will never go to anyone else. She is the BEST!“

Franchesca B.

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