Dawn is a compassionate Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner with over 25 years of nursing experience, including more than fifteen years dedicated to behavioral health. Her experience spans emergency, inpatient, outpatient, and recovery settings, with a particular passion for helping people with substance and opioid use disorders. Dawn’s clinical philosophy is grounded in the belief that effective care begins with understanding the whole person. Her person-centered, integrated approach recognizes the complex relationship between mental health, substance use, physical health, and life circumstances. She is committed to meeting each person where they are with dignity and without judgment, building collaborative treatment plans that reflect their individual needs, values, and goals while supporting meaningful and sustainable recovery, as she does not believe that recovery is treated with a “one size fits all” approach.