Ike is a Board-Certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP-BC) who received his undergraduate degrees from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, and the University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS). After obtaining licensure as a registered nurse, he worked in general internal medicine and child and adolescent psychiatry hospital settings at the Cleveland Clinic for almost five years. He then received his graduate nursing degree from Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, and, with obtaining advanced practice licensure, started working as a psychiatric nurse practitioner in the Cleveland Clinic’s Child and Adolescent Psychiatry section. He continued this work for five years before returning to Colorado to be closer to family (and the mountains), glad for the opportunity for his children to grow up near their cousins.
Ike currently works part time for New Pathways Psychiatry and Counseling, also working separately within the University of Colorado system as a psychiatric nurse practitioner providing care for university students, faculty, and staff. He provides evidence-based and client-centered psychiatric care for adults experiencing a broad range of psychiatric conditions including ADHD, anxiety, depression, insomnia, mood disorders, PTSD, OCD, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia, among others. Ike also provides care for children and adolescents ages 5 and up, specializing in conditions including ADHD, anxiety, depression, PTSD, tic disorders, OCD, oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), and conduct disorder. While he does not provide formal autism evaluations, he has significant experience working with children and adults with autism and can direct referrals for a formal autism evaluation, if indicated.
Ike provides care according to the idea that therapeutic relationships are founded on meeting individuals where they are, ensuring shared understanding regarding evaluation and treatment toward the achievement of collaborative partnership, toward identifying and attaining mutual goals. Through such collaboration and with thorough evaluation, he considers the individual needs of each client with sensitivity to their individual perspective as informed by their lived experience, their family, their culture and heritage. He provides treatment with medication with this sensitivity, also identifying and advising valuable non-pharmacologic treatment options, using a combination of these approaches to develop and implement individualized plans of care.
If you’re unsure whether medication might be helpful, Ike encourages you to schedule either a complimentary 15-minute consultation or a one hour intake appointment. This first conversation offers a chance to better understand your needs and explore whether medication, natural supplements, and/or psychotherapy could support your goals.