Samantha Atkinson

MSN, APRN, PMHNP-BC (She/Her/Hers)

Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner

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Samantha is a board-certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner with 10 years of nursing experience in a variety of mental health settings across the lifespan including inpatient, residential, and chemical dependency treatment. She is currently focused on treating patients ages 18 and up.
 
For the past two years, Samantha has been working as a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner on the inpatient psychiatry consult service in partnership with Fairview and the University of Minnesota Physicians, where she served patients who were medically and psychologically complex. In this role, she developed a passion and deep appreciation for the mind-body connection which continues to guide her current practice and ongoing education. 
 
While she sees patients with a variety of mental health concerns, she has a special interest in providing psychiatric treatment for people with medical comorbidities, treatment resistant Depression, psychosis, and management of Bipolar Disorder. Samantha takes a holistic and person-centered approach to treatment which can include medications, psychotherapy, lifestyle modification, and neuromodulation.