A quiet, personal practice. Time to listen. Time to heal.
As a board-certified psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, Suzanne M. Ward offers professional, confidential mental health services to support children, teens, adults, and older adults on their journey to mental health and wellness. Services offered include psychiatric evaluations, psychiatric medication management, counseling, coaching, and care management. She also provides guidance and recommendations for natural approaches to work collaboratively with the mental health treatment plan.
Suzanne has experience working directly with children as young as pre-school, with adolescents, adults of all ages, and with families. She has provided psychiatric treatment planning and management for a wide range of psychiatric symptoms and diagnoses.
What sets Suzanne’s practice apart?
Personal investment
She aspires to help you feel healthier and stronger. She strives to educate, so you can feel confident about treatment decisions. She encourages you to celebrate your progress and successes.
Accessibility
She has structured her practice to provide appointment availability within 1–2 weeks of your initial contact. She can offer flexibility with her office hours. She has two convenient locations in Lewistown and Mifflinburg. She believes in the importance of answering messages promptly.
And most importantly — Time
She gives time to assess and explore reasons and root causes for what is being experienced. She gives time to review, educate, and consider what direction treatment planning should take. She understands it takes time to feel comfortable expressing your concerns and discussing what your goals are for your mental health. She provides the time needed for discussion and collaboration on the best approach for your healing.
“What sets Suzanne apart is that she offers you her time — truly, a valuable commodity in today’s fast-paced world.”
Working with Suzanne is not just about medications; it’s about relationships, family, support systems, stress reduction, health, nutrition, resources, faith, hope, growth, successes to celebrate… Working with Suzanne is about you and your overall wellness.
With experience in mental health case management, community mental health, and inpatient psychiatry, Suzanne knows how difficult it can be to navigate through mental health, psychiatry and community social services systems. By offering care management services, she is here to help ease the stress by providing guidance, facilitation, and collaboration.
Low tech, but high response
Valley Mental Health and Wellness is low tech, but high response. With a special investment in providing local, in-person psychiatric care to the region’s Plain community, Suzanne has placed more focus on reaching clients on a personal level and less on having a large, impersonal digital footprint. This does not mean technology is not incorporated into the practice, but some automated systems may not be available. She believes a personal touch is too much a thing of the past in today’s healthcare industry and strives to give her clients better.
Now accepting new clients. Suzanne M. Ward, PMHNP-BC at Valley Mental Health and Wellness has appointments available for new clients at two convenient office locations:
— 100 Stine Dr., Suite A, Lewistown, PA
— Compassion Parochial Center, 150 E Chestnut St., Mifflinburg, PA
Hours are flexible and by appointment.