Compassionate Care
for Your Mental Health Journey
Find your peace.
Where do you feel you are right now? Are you feeling stuck or lost? Maybe you are struggling with depression, anxiety, trauma, substance use, or controlling your emotions. Whatever the reason, we can work together to find a solution that works for you. Through a mix of medications and therapy, we will come up with a plan that suits your personal goals and needs.
Who is Mark?
A Board-Certified and licensed Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner and Adult Health Nurse Practitioner with over 14 years experience in his field, Mark currently offers comprehensive psychiatric evaluations and medication management.
Having earned a bachelor’s degree in Psychology as well as a master’s degree in Nursing from The Ohio State University, he has specialized training in managing mental health and psychiatric medications with HIV and other medical issues as an Adult Nurse Practitioner.
Mark strives to provide affirming care that is non-judgmental, open, and honest, creating an environment for patients to safely express themselves. He’ll take the time to work with you to give you the tools you need to be successful. Depending on your specific needs, this may be through a combination medications, psychodynamic therapy, mindfulness, cognitive behavioral therapy, and other approaches.
Areas of Mark’s of expertise include: ADHD, anxiety, bipolar disorder, depression, gay men’s health, trans-affirming care, substance use, and eating disorders. He often works with people who have previously struggled with medications in the past. Other relevant issues may include: racism, immigration, non-monogamy, poly, religious trauma, sex-work, or sexual trauma.
His passion for those that identify as LGBTQIA2S+ is backed by multiple years of experience working with trans, non-binary, gender fluid, and folx currently transitioning, as well as frequently working with many straight and cis women and men who identify as allies of the marginalized communities he serves.
Mark speaks both English and Portuguese.
A word from Mark on Medication and Mental Health Recovery…
Recovery from mental illness is a unique journey for each person, so there is not one treatment or one prescribed path to recovery. Each person has their own set of experiences, some individual and some shared with others. Through exploration and understanding your needs, your strengths, and your struggles, we tailor a treatment plan for you—and update this along the way as things change. You are an integral part of creating your own treatment plan and making decisions alongside your provider.
In mental health recovery, medications do not simply provide a cure or make us feel happy when things in our life are tough. Many people often know what they need to do to feel better but frequently cannot take action due to a malaise that weighs us down or anxiety that may, at times, feel paralyzing. We use medications as a tool to reduce the impact of your symptoms and make it easier to do things you need and want to do to feel better. If you are already in talk therapy, medications could help get you out of “crisis mode” and help talk therapy work better. By finding the right medication that treats your symptoms and not just the diagnosis, we can make it easier for you to achieve a sustainable recovery.
Accessible Care
Our goal is to make high quality psychiatric care as accessible as possible, including offering both early morning and evening hour appointments as well as accepting several major insurance plans. Additionally, we offer fair and reasonable self-pay fees for those seeking care without insurance.
Hours & Appointments
Availability accessible to established patients through the Patient Portal. Mark offers both in-person and virtual visit options.