You shouldn’t have to sacrifice your peace to achieve your potential.
Helping high-performing people understand their minds, strengthen their mental fitness, and live as well as they perform.
A DIFFERENT APPROACH TO PSYCHIATRIC CARE
Care designed around the person. Not just the diagnosis.
MentalC combines clinical expertise, thoughtful listening, and personalized care to help you understand what is happening, regain balance, and function at your best.
Understand Your Mind
We look beyond surface symptoms to identify the emotional, biological, behavioral, and situational patterns shaping how you feel and function.
Care Built Around You
Your care may include medication management, supportive therapy, practical strategies, and recommendations tailored to your lifestyle, needs, and goals.
A Consistent Partnership
Work with the same provider over time so your care remains connected, responsive, and grounded in trust.
WHO THIS IS FOR
You may be functioning well without actually feeling well.
MentalC serves adolescents, young adults, professionals, creators, and other high-performing people who appear capable on the outside while carrying more internally than others may realize.
Anxiety & Overthinking
Your mind rarely slows down. You anticipate problems, replay conversations, or struggle to remain present even when life appears to be going well.
ADHD & Difficulty Focusing
You may be intelligent and motivated while still struggling with organization, procrastination, distractibility, consistency, or following through.
Burnout & Emotional Exhaustion
You continue meeting expectations, but the effort has become difficult to sustain. Rest is no longer restorative, and success may be costing more than it should.
Depression & Loss of Motivation
You may continue showing up for work, school, family, or creative responsibilities while privately feeling depleted, disconnected, numb, or unlike yourself.
Sleep Problems
Difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep, or waking refreshed may be affecting your mood, concentration, energy, and ability to perform consistently.
Life Transitions & Identity
College, relationships, grief, relocation, career changes, family pressure, and questions about purpose can leave even highly capable people feeling uncertain or emotionally stuck.
You do not have to wait until everything falls apart to ask for help.
Care can begin while you are still functioning, still achieving, and still trying to hold everything together.
MEET YOUR PROVIDER
Clinical expertise. Human connection.
Thoughtful psychiatric care begins with being heard, understood, and treated as a whole person.
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Finding the right psychiatric provider is not simply about credentials. It is about finding someone who listens carefully, thinks deeply, and partners with you to create meaningful change.
Dr. Doug Mitchell is a board-certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner with more than a decade of experience caring for adolescents and adults across emergency psychiatry, crisis stabilization, outpatient behavioral health, veterans’ mental health, private practice, and academic clinical education.
His approach combines evidence-based medicine with thoughtful conversation, helping people better understand their minds, strengthen emotional resilience, and build lives that feel as healthy internally as they appear externally.
CREDENTIALS
- Doctor of Nursing Practice
- Board-Certified PMHNP
- More than a decade in mental health
CLINICAL EXPERIENCE
- Emergency psychiatry
- Crisis stabilization
- Outpatient and private practice
- Veterans’ mental health
EDUCATION & LEADERSHIP
- Clinical preceptor
- Johns Hopkins University
- Duke University
- Licensed in California and New York
“My goal is not simply to prescribe medication. It is to help people understand their minds, strengthen their mental fitness, and live with greater clarity, purpose, and peace.”Schedule Your Consultation
BEFORE YOU BEGIN
Questions are part of good care.
Clear answers to a few common questions before beginning care with MentalC Health.
What ages do you treat?
MentalC provides psychiatric care for adolescents and adults. Eligibility may vary based on age, clinical needs, the requested service, and applicable state requirements.
Do you provide medication management?
Yes. When clinically appropriate, medication may be included as part of a personalized treatment plan. Prescriptions are generally sent electronically to the pharmacy you select.
Are appointments online or in person?
Appointments are currently provided through secure telehealth, allowing you to receive care privately from your home, office, or another appropriate location.
Where is care available?
Care is available to eligible patients who are physically located in California, New York, or Florida at the time of their appointment, subject to current licensure and applicable state requirements.
Do you accept insurance?
MentalC is an out-of-network practice and does not bill insurance directly. Upon request, we can provide a superbill that you may submit to your insurance company for possible reimbursement.
Prescription insurance may still be used at the pharmacy, subject to the terms of your individual plan.
How do I begin care?
Begin by scheduling an initial consultation. You will receive instructions for completing your intake information before your appointment so your history, concerns, and goals can be reviewed thoughtfully.