
What to Expect From Your First Psychotherapy Session
You may feel nervous when you’re beginning psychotherapy. Learn more about what to expect at your first psychotherapy session.
Announcement
We will be beginning groups such as grief, COVID-19
survivor and wellness groups in the Winter 2023
Our Vision
Honor and give awareness and insight through our educational, professional and personal experiences
Open the doors to serve and give back to our community because God and so many others have helped us to be where we are today
Promote a holistic interventional approach to mental health healing and wellness
Encourage people to keep hope and faith alive in order to sustain healing and recovery
Treatment Philosophy
Providing a holistic integrated approach to treating mental illness and substance use disorders that focuses on three goals such as Intervention, Stabilization, and Rehabilitation for recovery. Our treatment philosophy is meeting our patients where they are while suspending judgements, eliminating biases and providing a patient-centered, goal-directed care in their best interest through implementation of unique handpicked theories and applications that meet their needs. This is in conjunction with faith and cultural sensitivity. In addition, medication management is integrated at times along with psychotherapy for some patients' optimal level of care. We believe that our job is to engage, encourage and empower patients to meet acceptance, be accountable, promote self-love and improve their self-esteem. We give our patients insight into challenges in their lives so that they can develop better ways to cope and gain awareness in their healing journey.
About Us
Coping Nurse Practitioner in Psychiatry Services is a faith-based Christian practice that has a mission of CARE and a vision of HOPE. Dr. Vansiea has a holistic integrated approach to treating mental illness and substance use disorders that focuses on three goals such as Intervention, Stabilization, and Rehabilitation for recovery and healing. Dr. Vansiea comes to the table to serve as a practitioner to treat with love, humility, understanding, compassion, open-mindedness and the spirit of empathy. Dr. Vansiea has a strong background in medical/surgical nursing as a Registered Nurse which is an asset to her patients in giving insight and awareness in many medical commodities that exist with mental illness and substance use disorders. In addition, she has an educational background in addiction counseling. This allows her to provide a better holistic and comprehensive approach to treatment in her patients best interest. Dr. Vansiea believes that her job is to engage, encourage and empower patients to meet acceptance, be accountable, promote self-love, improve self-esteem, and give them insight and awareness of challenges in their lives; so that they can then develop better ways to cope and gain awareness in their healing journey. Dr. Vansiea's goal is to develop a therapeutic alliance and promote a safe environment for treatment. The focus of her care again is patient-centered and goal-directed interactive efforts in partnership with patients to improve their quality of life. It’s important that patients’ need to be invested in their treatment while partnering with Dr. Vansiea.
Dr. Vansiea received her Associate of Science in Pre-Nursing from Mary Holmes College in West Point, Mississippi, which was a historical black college. She graduated salutatorian of her graduating class. Later, she went to pursue a dual degree being a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and a Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences Interdisciplinary Studies from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York. She went on to earn a Master of Science Degree in Mental Health Psychiatric Nursing from Stony Brook as well. She received the distinctions of Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) with a focus in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, leading to her current license and certification as a Nurse Practitioner in Psychiatry. Dr. Vansiea also received a Master of Arts in Addiction Counseling from the Hazelden Betty Ford Graduate School of Addiction Studies, Center City, Minnesota.
Dr. Vansiea holds an Internationally Certified Alcohol & Drug Counselor (ICADC) certification as well. Dr. Vansiea went on to earn the highest clinical degree in her field, a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP), with a focus in Transcultural Nursing Leadership from Augsburg University in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Dr. Vansiea has received numerous accolades and professional awards. She continues to give back to her community because God and so many others have helped her along her journey.
So if you are looking to partner with Dr. Vansiea for your healing and recovery journey then Dr. Vansiea is the best practitioner for you and she can help. Currently, due to the coronavirus pandemic she is only seeing patients remotely by Telemental Health webcam appointments in the three states that she is licensed in being New York, New Jersey and Kansas. Dr. Vansiea is dedicated to serving her patients and she is passionate about making a difference in their lives because she understands how it feels to be the nurse, patient and the provider; but it requires a partnership approach for treatment success. So if you feel that Dr. Vansiea is a good fit for you then please make an appointment to be seen.
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To view Dr. Vansiea's Curriculum Vitae, click here.
Types of Appointments Offered By Dr. Vansiea
Accepting new patients in New York and Kansas for Telemental Health appointments only
• Adult Chemical Dependency Assessment (75 minutes for all new patients)
• Adult Comprehensive Psychiatric Evaluation (75 minutes appointment needed for all new patients)
• Middle Adolescent Comprehensive Psychiatric Evaluation (90 minutes appointment needed for all new patients ages 16 and older)
• Immigration Psychological Evaluation (2-4 hours broken up into two days)
• Middle Adolescent Chemical Dependency Assessment (90 minutes for all new patients ages 16 and older)
• Brief Psychotherapy with Medication Management (30 or 60 minutes)
• Consultation (15-20 minutes)
• Family Psychotherapy/Counseling (60 minutes)
• Individual Psychotherapy/Counseling (45 or 60 minutes)
• Marriage Psychotherapy/Counseling (60 minutes)
• Medication Management only (15-20 minutes)
• Middle Adolescent Wellness Support Group (16 years and up)
• Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) for substance use disorders (60 minutes)
Dr. Vansiea does not complete any forms on the first visit since that time is dedicated to an initial comprehensive psychiatric evaluation.
Any no show or no communication patients for two consecutive appointments with no cancellation notifications will not be given another appointment since it takes away from another patient needing an appointment. Cancellations and rescheduling appointments must be done 48 hours before the scheduled appointment.
There will be a $50.00 cancellation fee for less than 24 hours of cancellation and a no-show notification before the appointment. There will also be a $25.00 fee for forms and letters each time it is requested.
Self-pay fees for Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner:
The faith-based practice has a mission of CARE, helping patients Cope, providing Appropriate culturally sensitive support, offering up Respect, and Empowering lives.
Services
We are now accepting Medicare and Medicaid patients.
Please call our practice for more details.
The following insurances are currently accepted at Coping Nurse Practitioner in Psychiatry Services. We accept both Medicaid Group and Medicaid Individual plans as well. If you have insurance that is not listed, please contact our office to inquire further about the insurance. All insurance copays or deductibles are due on the day of the service. We welcome Self-pay patients and see fees for those services on the website.
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Office hours are by appointment only and no walk-ins. All appointments during this Coronavirus pandemic are telemental health only until further notifications of office re-opening. Thank you.