Chinyere Millicent Ugwanyi MSN, PMHNP-BC, DNP
Chinyere is a Board-Certified and Licensed Family Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner with a BSN degree from Shenandoah University, Winchester, VA, an MSN degree from the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, and a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree from Chatham University, Pittsburgh, PA. Chinyere has 12 years of experience as a psychiatric nurse and 7 years of experience as a nurse practitioner, providing psychiatric evaluation, treatment, and medication management to patients with varying degrees of mental illness. She has expertise in treating adult patients, and lately adolescent patients. She treats patients with disorders such as anxiety, depression, personality disorder, ADHD, PTSD, substance abuse, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia.
Chinyere’s approach to care is straightforward and clear. She is very professional, caring, respectful, and strives to offer personalized mental health services. Chinyere always lends a listening ear and is empathetic to her patients.
Chinyere’s mission is to provide every patient with the highest quality care while empowering them to live a successful, fulfilled life, alongside being/staying in control of their mental health.
Qualifications
Years in Practice: 7 Years
Credentials
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School: Shenandoah University Winchester, VA.-BSN Graduation Year: 2006
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School: University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati-MSN Graduation Year: 2013
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School: Chatham University, Pittsburgh, PA-Doctor Nursing Practice-DNP Graduation Year: 2013
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Certificate: American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Family Psych NP: PMHNP. Certification Date: 2013
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Our Mission
Our mission is to assist in your desire to achieve mental health wellness by providing professional, caring, effective, and personalized mental health services.
Our Vision
We want to help people struggling with mental health disorders overcome the challenges they face and allow them to lead mentally healthy lives.
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Our Care Philosophy
- We strive to build our practice on healthy, caring, and respectful relationships with our clients.
- We pay attention to our patient’s concerns and stories and offer them listening ears.
- We provide effective psychiatric evaluation and medication management regimen, which allows us to maximize medication efficacy and keep side effects to a minimum.
- We carefully select medication with due consideration that every individual is different and important.
- We also manage medications by utilizing the use of genetic testing services for our patients that request the test.