Yuan Jia, APRN, is a dual board-certified Adult-Gerontology Nurse Practitioner and Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. Yuan worked as a geriatric nurse for fourteen years before obtaining her Master of Science in Nursing from Regis College and graduated with the greatest honor. Yuan has experience working in community mental health, psychiatric consultation, skilled nursing facilities, and outpatient practice. Yuan values the importance of understanding the stigma traditionally associated with mental health struggles and wishes to provide the best-individualized care with an evidence-based and effective holistic approach. Yuan sees patients 18 and older. She provides a thorough diagnostic evaluation to detect patterns in thoughts and behaviors in her patients, and then match them to appropriate diagnoses. Yuan carries out pharmacological medication management as well as supportive therapies with a caring demeanor in creating customized treatment plans for each patient. Yuan is bilingual, fluent in English and Chinese. She recognizes and respects the unique cultural background of each individual along with their differences in religion, gender, sexual orientation, and more when delivering care.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
Yuan is dedicated to delivering supportive and effective mental health care with understanding, kindness, and compassion. Through medication management combined with therapeutic and motivational interactions, Clients are expected to increase their awareness of negative thinking patterns that led to the problems, improve their tolerance of negative emotions and distress, and explore ways to cope and manage their thoughts or emotions during and after treatment.
What treatment methods and tools do you utilize?
Yuan is specialized in treating depression, anxiety, and other mood disorders. She focuses on using an individualized medication treatment approach along with supportive listening and talk therapy to help clients improve self-acceptance and promote social and emotional well-being. The assessment tools that Yuan likes to use include the GAD for anxiety, PHQ-9 for depression, and MDQ for manic symptoms associated with bipolar disorder.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
Yuan is bilingual and fluent in English and Chinese (Mandarin) languages. She is a good listener; caring, thoughtful, and intuitive in understanding and sharing the feelings of others.