Tanya is a board certified psychiatric clinical nurse specialist with a subspecialty focus in children and adolescents. She has prescriptive authority for psychiatric medications in these populations. She focuses on treatment modalities, be that through therapeutic or pharmacological intervention, to reduce the impact of mental health symptoms in her patients' daily functioning.

She has over 28 years of experience treating children, adolescents, and their families. She has practiced for the last 8 years solely in the outpatient setting, working with patients and their families to develop safe and therapeutic medication management treatment plans. Her experience has taken her through 22 years of treating patients in the inpatient psychiatric hospital, partial hospital, intensive outpatient, and residential programs. She appreciates the difficult decision parents have to make regarding medication for their child, educates them, and helps support the process. Tanya recognizes the complicated issues of school, family, and peer-social stressors on children and adolescents today.

Tanya puts all these variables into perspective and really makes it a point to understand her patients. She works together with all the stakeholders on the patient's team, which includes the therapist, primary care, school, and families, to try and reach goals for treatment.