Connections Wellness Group – McKinney | Spotlight

By Annette
Brooks

Award-winning Connections Wellness Group
offers life-enhancing, personalized, cost-effective mental health solutions
to residents throughout North Texas. Whether you or a loved one is
struggling with depression, anxiety, substance abuse, an eating disorder,
self-harm, grief, loss, trauma, or another issue, their goal is to help
“connect you back to what matters most.”

Providing
comprehensive services and an innovative, integrated treatment model, the
dynamic team of mental health professionals in the McKinney location includes
board certified psychiatric nurse practitioner Angela Culbertson. She
performs psychiatric evaluations, consultations, and medication management
for adolescents and adults. Her specialties and subspecialties include depression,
anxiety, ADHD, trauma, bipolar, and personality disorders, and she is closely
involved with the MindFULL eating disorder
program.

Meet Board
Certified Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Angela
Culbertson

Ms. Culbertson has wanted to help and heal
people ever since she can remember. Some of her first preschool drawings were
of a nurse and a nurse’s hat. Following her passion, she completed her
nursing degree at the University of Maryland and a master’s in
psychiatric/mental health nursing at Drexel University in
Philadelphia.

Her interest in forming meaningful
relationships and long-lasting bonds with her patients led her to choose a
career in psychiatry. “I get to know the whole person and see the whole
picture. It’s the best feeling when a patient tells me that our work together
has helped them feel better.”

Ms.
Culbertson says prescribing medication isn’t always automatic with a new
patient. “My goal is to understand what’s causing them to feel the way they
do. For example, anxiety can be associated with stress at home, work, or in a
relationship, which may be successfully addressed with advice and
consultation.”

Communication, Collaboration,
Teamwork

With a collaborative, multidisciplinary team
and robust set of services, just about anyone seeking mental health care can
find what they need at Connections Wellness Group McKinney.

“We have an amazing team,” Ms. Culbertson
says. “We support one another, and everyone is caring, with the same
outlook.” Patients naturally benefit from this breadth and depth of care in
innumerable ways. She adds, “We’re also making great strides in alleviating
the stigma associated with mental health and
encourage anyone considering care to take the first step toward
improving their mental, physical, and emotional well-being by scheduling a
consultation with us.”

Start On
Your Journey to Wellness and Recovery

Connections
Wellness Group is in-network with all major insurance companies and Tricare.
The practice has locations run by licensed health professionals in McKinney,
Arlington, Denton, Flower Mound, Frisco, Keller, Mansfield, Plano, Prosper,
Rockwall, Southlake, and Willow Park. Visit ConnectionsWellnessGroup.com
for more
information.