3 providers in Massachusetts matching your needs

Marsha Charlton is a highly skilled and compassionate Family and Psychiatric Mental Health. Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP), holding dual board certifications and boasting over ten years of medical expertise aims to provide accessible and comprehensive mental healthcare to individuals from all walks of life. Marsha has a wealth of experience caring for patients with diverse backgrounds in different settings, including primary care, surgical, psychiatric, and veterans throughout Boston. She approaches her work with a culturally attuned, down-to-earth style that helps her clients feel comfortable and at ease. Marsha's diverse clinical background enables her to treat various mental disorders, including depression, anxiety, grief and loss, ADHD, PTSD, Bipolar Disorder, sleep disorders, and addiction. Marsha strongly believes everyone deserves high-quality mental health care and support, and she tailors her approach to meet each client's unique needs. `With Marsha, you will receive compassionate, personalized care that considers your mental, physical, and emotional well-being. Her dedication to providing holistic, accessible care ensures you receive the highest quality mental health care and support.

I have been a Nurse Practitioner for approximately three decades. I completed my graduate education in Nursing as well as Public Health from Boston schools. I am board certified as both a Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and an Adult (primary medical care) Nurse Practitioner. For approximately the last 16 years, I have focused my career exclusively in the area of psychiatry. However, I integrate my knowledge of psychiatry as well as primary care in my approach to my patients. I have significant experience in working with many diverse populations, including urban and rural populations across all socioeconomic spectrums, age ranges from late adolescents to middle adulthood, professionals and college students of all levels, LGBTQ adolescents and adults, persons confronted with life stage transition issues, persons living with chronic medical disease, and persons with addiction/substance use difficulties. Although I am well experienced in many areas of psychiatry, my focus in telepsychiatry private practice is on managing depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, adjustment disorders, ADHD treatment with appropriate initial testing, trauma responses, and bipolar disorders without true mania or psychoses. I will not be able to treat psychotic disorders or significant substance use/addiction as a primary diagnosis through telepsychiatry.

Sometimes shared space is the greatest thing we experience with each other. As a provider, I hope to use our space to inspire helpful insight utilizing a humanistic-transpersonal approach. Through positive inquisition, we start to see our remarkable qualities by exploring thoughts, behaviors, and experiences via discussions meaningful to you. There are many counseling principles I utilize as a practitioner. I find it difficult to choose just one theoretical concept and more beneficial to be well versed in a variety of treatment modalities to best meet the individual’s needs. As a provider, I strive to have a vast network of colleague’s expertise to consult with and learn from. As needs change, providers must be adaptable and discover new information, recent studies provide best practices to consider incorporating. I am dedicated to trauma informed care and creating a safe space to share experiences our society has trouble processing. We will learn and grow together about specific modalities of interest, I may not be so familiar with. As your provider, I intend to focus on what you deem is priority. A humanistic approach is warm, empathetic, and non-judgmental, creating an ideal space for accessing innate healing abilities. This approach appreciates beauty in imperfection and assists individuals in recognizing worth in themselves. Helping an individual develop a supportive network is also a priority as a practitioner. Our connections to each other and the world around us remain a lifeline for individuals coping with distress. An integrative nursing approach has similar principles to nursing theorist Jean Watson; encouraging spirituality, a broader sense of self, unconditional acceptance, and altruism. These values breathe life into well-being and a healthy, optimistic existence. Mental health is not the absence of symptoms. Mental health is defined by one’s ability to access their inner resources to feel, process, adapt, and prevail. I look forward to opportunities of interaction with my fellow humans and strive to help ease suffering by providing support, understanding, compassion, and the skills necessary to manage the complexities of everyday life and the challenges of humanity.