Expert psychiatric care from someone who understands, both professionally and personally.
Board Certified PMHNP-BC
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
"She changed my life. I finally feel like myself again."
I specialize in ADHD and understand it both professionally and personally. You'll work with someone who truly gets it.
As a parent who navigated this system myself, I understand the frustration. I don't just treat symptoms. I get what you're going through.
No rushed appointments. You get the time and attention you deserve to create a treatment plan that actually works.
Board Certified Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
APRN-CNP, PMHNP-BC, CDCES, CMSRN
Education:
Post-Master's in Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
MS in Biotechnology
MSN in Nursing
Also Known as Benny Buttons
One of my beloved fur babies ❤️
I'm a board-certified psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, but that's not why I started Serotonin Spot.
I started this practice because I lived through the broken system as a parent. When my son needed help, we faced the same nightmare so many families know too well: months-long wait times, 15-minute appointments that felt like assembly-line care, and providers who didn't take the time to truly understand him.
We'd leave appointments with more questions than answers. I watched him struggle while the system failed him. As both a mother and a psychiatric provider, I knew there had to be a better way.
That experience changed everything. It's why every patient who walks through my door gets something different: Time. Attention. Genuine care. The kind of mental health treatment I wish we'd found for my son.
I understand ADHD both professionally and personally. Not just from textbooks or clinical training, from real life. I watched my son receive misdiagnoses because providers didn't connect the dots between his ADHD and other symptoms. They treated symptoms in isolation instead of seeing the whole picture.
I know what it's like when your brain won't slow down, when focus feels impossible, when you're exhausted from working twice as hard to keep up. I know what anxiety feels like when it keeps you up at 3 AM, replaying every conversation, wondering if you said the wrong thing. I watched my son struggle with this same anxiety, the restless nights, the constant worry that comes when ADHD and anxiety feed off each other.
I get it, not just as your provider, but as someone who truly understands, as a mother who fought to get her son the right diagnosis, and as a psychiatric provider who knows how these conditions overlap and affect each other.
My background in research taught me to look beyond surface symptoms and investigate root causes, which is exactly why I could see what other providers missed with my son. My nursing foundation taught me to treat the whole person, not just a diagnosis, and to truly listen to what patients are telling me. But my experience as a parent taught me what compassionate care looks like and why connecting all the pieces matters. That combination, research, nursing, and lived experience, is what makes Serotonin Spot different.
You won't get rushed 15-minute appointments here. You won't leave with unanswered questions. You'll get a provider who listens, who understands, and who's committed to finding what actually works for YOUR life, not just prescribing what's easiest.
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