Maureen Brewster MSN, APRN, PMHNP-BC

Summary

• Maureen, a board-certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and the clinic’s principal provider, founded hope-iatry™ based on 28 years of caring for others as a Registered Nurse, including raising her five children and 15 years as a Navy wife. In a variety of nursing specialties, she saw barriers to access and inflexibility in mental health care disproportionately impact children and adolescents, as well as their parents.
  
  Inspired by her experiences, she envisioned a clinic where parents could bring their children and adolescents for personalized mental health care and advocacy that meets their needs first—rather than the needs of healthcare systems, insurance companies, and schools. Her vision became a reality with the creation of hope-iatry™.
  
  Maureen prioritizes an integrative approach to treatment that emphasizes the wholeness of the person, environmental context and influence, and connection with self, all anchored by evidence-based interventions. She is in her second year as a fellow in the Finley Psychoanalytic Psychodynamic Fellowship and has positioned psychotherapy at the heart of her care philosophy. Accordingly, talk therapy is part of every appointment. Additionally, medication may be appropriate for some children and adolescents and will be prescribed after gaining a thorough understanding of the symptoms to be treated and confirming the best course of action supported by the best and most recent medical evidence.