Find a balance with your psychiatric medication management
We are excited to offer more inclusive medication management beginning Fall 2023. We are excited to offer free and sliding scale medication management appointments. Thank you for helping us spread the word and increasing access!
Medications often help patients recover from mental health concerns like depression, anxiety and substance abuse or manage ongoing concerns like bipolar disorder, ADHD and psychosis. Our medication management team ensures patients receive optimal benefits from their medicines while minimizing unpleasant side effects. Our board certified providers provide comprehensive psychiatric and behavioral health services to all age groups, including children, adolescents, adults and elderly persons.
Medications often help patients recover from mental health concerns like depression, anxiety and substance abuse or manage ongoing concerns like bipolar disorder, ADHD and psychosis. Our medication management team ensures patients receive optimal benefits from their medicines while minimizing unpleasant side effects. Our board certified providers provide comprehensive psychiatric and behavioral health services to all age groups, including children, adolescents, adults and elderly persons.
Our medication management team has offices in Chapel Hill and can work with patients across the state of NC via our secured virtual telehealth platform.
We are enrolling patients now! Sign up today by completing this form.
How Does Psychiatric Medication Management Work?
Finding the optimal balance for your mind and body is our #1 priority during medication management sessions.
First, you also will undergo a comprehensive psychiatric medical consultation. Then, before writing a prescription, your provider will spend time understanding your specific concerns and needs within your unique social and cultural context.
Finally, once you have begun psychiatric medication management, our licensed practitioners may also require ongoing lab tests and live check-ups, in addition to traditional therapy.
First, you also will undergo a comprehensive psychiatric medical consultation. Then, before writing a prescription, your provider will spend time understanding your specific concerns and needs within your unique social and cultural context.
Finally, once you have begun psychiatric medication management, our licensed practitioners may also require ongoing lab tests and live check-ups, in addition to traditional therapy.
What if Someone Else Prescribed My Medication?
Our intake process is mostly the same whether you are new to psychiatry or already being treated. The only difference is that your existing medical records will be consulted before your medical evaluation. That medical history will also help your provider better understand the existing balance in your body, before any prescriptions are written or changed.
What insurance and payment options are availble?
We are currently in network with most in state and out of state BCBS plans (all except Blue Local, Blue Value and Blue Home) and Aetna plans, and are happy to assist with filing for out of network benefits for other health insurance plans.
We will begin accepting Cigna, United and Medcost in late 2023.
We accept self-pay clients and reserve space for sliding scale and probono patients.
We will begin accepting Cigna, United and Medcost in late 2023.
We accept self-pay clients and reserve space for sliding scale and probono patients.
Meet Our Psychiatric Team
Awa Dia, MSN, will begin providing medication management services at Radical Healing this Fall 2023.
Awa Dia, MSN (she/her) is a Board Certified Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and is completing her Doctorate in Nursing Practice at the Ohio State University where she is exploring how hospitals can reduce carceral practices (i.e., restraints and seclusion treatment) in psychiatric settings.
Awa specializes in medication management and treatment across the lifespan for a full range of diagnoses, including ADHD, psychosis, depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder and addiction. Previous to her work at Radical Healing, Awa worked in psychiatric hospital settings.
Awa is fluent in English, French, Fulani and Wolof.
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Dr. Alicia "Leesh" Holod will begin providing medication management services at Radical Healing this Fall 2023. Alicia "Leesh" Holod, PhD, RN, PMHNP-BC (she/her) is a Board Certified Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner with an approach to treatment that encompasses both medication management and psychotherapeutic support with an emphasis on radical inclusion. Leesh utilizes current evidence-based practices and a trauma-informed care framework. Her areas of expertise include substance use, dual diagnosis, victimization, and trauma- and stressor-related disorders. She offers comprehensive care to clients of all ages and identities – with additional focus on the LGBTQIA+ community. As a harm reductionist, Leesh believes in meeting clients where they are, and helping clients work towards meeting their own goals as they are ready. Through her practice, Leesh integrates a deep commitment and respect for all bodies, body neutrality and gender experience into her work and works hard to provide inclusive and affirming care to all of her clients. She is an active educator and researcher and expert on poly-victimization related to minoritized identities, including race, gender and sexuality and other aspects of social-mediated violence. Leesh is a white, cishet, neurodivergent clinician from Cleveland, Ohio. |
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Dr. Mariah Cina (she/her) will begin providing medication management services at Radical Healing
this Fall 2023. Mariah Cina, DNP, APRN, PMHNP-BC (she/her) is a Board Certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner with a Doctorate in Nursing Practice from Anderson University. Mariah has 9 years of experience in the mental health field in a variety of settings, including inpatient, community residential settings, and home health. She has extensive experience working with patients across the lifespan and a variety of gender identities and backgrounds. Mariah has treated a range of mental health disorders including but not limited to: schizophrenia, PTSD, bipolar, depression, anxiety, ADHD, autism, personality disorders, and behavioral developmental disorders. She provides both medication management and psychotherapy with a combination of traditional and alternative practices. Mariah takes pride leading her practice with a holistic non-judgmental, and trauma-informed approach to create the best quality of life, that fits the needs of the individual’s lifestyle and beliefs. She is extremely empathetic, easy going, approachable and guides patients to feel empowered in their treatment. Mariah believes in the importance of the mind, body, spirit connection and that wellness is achieved when there is a harmony between these three domains. In a world that is always evolving, she strives to be a constant in her patients’ lives while embracing life’s changes. She has a passion to provide care to those who are systemically oppressed populations, and is at the forefront of advocating for social justice. Mariah looks forward to assisting you on your journey to wellness. |
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Dr. Lucy Magda will begin providing medication management services at Radical Healing this Fall 2023.
Dr. Lucy Magda (she/her) is a board-certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and our medication management team lead. She was born and raised on the eastern shore of Maryland. She began her nursing career in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), where she worked to stabilize the most critically ill patients. It is there that her interest in mental health flourished as she witnessed first-hand how essential mental health is for the overall wellbeing of her patients. She realized that there is no health without mental health. Dr. Lucy and her husband followed her passion for mental health to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she obtained her Doctorate of Nursing Practice (DNP) in the psychiatric mental health specialty. The devotion she feels towards individuals suffering from a mental health disorder stems from the stigma that these patients face. In her own fight against the stigma surrounding mental illness, Lucy seeks to optimize each client’s strengths in order to fulfill goals associated with improved health outcomes. Lucy’s passion for mental health enables her to treat patients across the lifespan, with a broad interest of mental health disorders including depression, anxiety, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), mood disorders, personality disorders, schizophrenia, addiction, etc. Dr. Lucy has experience treating patients in underserved populations including pediatrics (ages 8 and above), LGBTQ+, ethnic/racial minorities, pregnant/breastfeeding women, homeless individuals, etc. She is also certified to perform Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) utilizing magnetic stimulation as an alternative treatment for depression among other mental health disorders. Dr. Lucy believes in an interprofessional practice model, through which she provides high-quality, patient-centered care in collaboration with other healthcare providers and family members involved in the client’s life. Her holistic approach to healthcare connects the mind and body for clients to reach the highest possible quality of life. She emphasizes the importance of each individual therapeutic relationship in all of her patient encounters. In her free time, Lucy enjoys hiking, creating art, and spending quality time with her pets and her family. |