Nancy Phillips, MSN, PMHNP-BC, FNP-BC

Nancy began her career in acute care, working with people facing complex cardiovascular conditions. It is demanding work, and it teaches something that stays with you: how quickly a person becomes a chart, and how much is lost when that happens.

She went on to practise as a Family Nurse Practitioner, working with diverse populations on chronic illness and comorbidity. Mental health kept surfacing in that work, not as a separate specialty, but woven through everything else. People managing diabetes and depression at once. People whose anxiety was doing more damage than their diagnosis. The split between physical and mental health, which is tidy on an organisational chart, does not exist in an actual human being.

That is what brought her to psychiatry, and it is why she practises the way she does. A psychiatric evaluation here includes thyroid function, sleep, medication interactions, and physical health, because those things produce symptoms indistinguishable from depression and anxiety and will not respond to a psychiatric medication.

Nancy is an enthusiastic and empathetic listener who believes every client deserves personalised care, patience, and genuine concern. She brings deep experience in psychiatric evaluation, diagnosis, and medication management, and she tailors every treatment plan to the person in front of her rather than to the diagnosis on the form.