Hello. I'm Nicole Schwartz, a psychiatric nurse practitioner dedicated to providing empathetic, trauma-informed psychiatric care for individuals navigating various behavioral health and addiction-related challenges. I work to provide a safe and supportive space where the patients who trust me with their care can feel seen, heard, and encouraged to be their authentic selves. I am a board-certified psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP-BC) and a licensed social worker (LSW). With nearly two decades of experience in the health and mental healthcare field, I bring a comprehensive understanding of psychosocial needs and have worked in all levels of care including hospitals, inpatient psychiatric treatment facilities, residential treatment, partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient programs, and outpatient treatment centers. I've had the privilege of working with children, adolescents, and adults from diverse backgrounds. I provide compassionate and culturally appropriate care for individuals within the LGBTQIA+ community, first responders, members of the uniformed services, as well as families experiencing perinatal mental health challenges. As a social worker and nurse practitioner, I feel a deep commitment to providing access to expert psychiatric care that sees the entire person as well as the ways that the community and our culture have impacted functioning. Let's face it, both the medical and psychiatric field need a change- in my practice over and over, I remind individuals that they are the subject-matter experts in their own lived experience and my role is to provide expert consultation and to collaborate on a health and wellness plan. In my care, the underlying, radical idea is that YOU are the expert.