Kelsey Knox is a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner who finds fulfillment in supporting adolescents and adults through a variety of mental health concerns. Her experience includes treating mood disorders, anxiety disorders, trauma-related disorders, ADHD, and psychosis-spectrum disorders, and she has additional training through Postpartum International Support in perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.

Kelsey strives to collaborate with each patient to create individualized treatment plans for their unique needs. Her ideal patient is motivated to heal and is open to considering different interventional treatment options.

Her clinical focus is integrative psychiatry, in which she can offer not just medication management, but also brief supportive therapy, TMS, esketamine, nutritional psychiatry, and more. Her work is grounded in research and evidence-based practice, and individualized to each patient, and her approach to provider-patient relationships is collaborative, warm, and trauma-informed.

Prior to becoming a psychiatric nurse practitioner, Kelsey worked as a registered nurse in community/public health, inpatient psychiatry, emergency psychiatry, and emergency medicine, caring for individuals across the lifespan in a variety of clinical settings. She desired to help increase access to trauma-informed psychiatric care, so she went back to school and obtained her training from Vanderbilt University.

After graduating, she worked at Rolling Hills Hospital in Franklin, TN, as the first psychiatric nurse practitioner at that hospital to have her own inpatient caseload. She provided care for patients across the lifespan, particularly in the psychosis and adolescent units. She also conducted psychiatric evaluations and provided medication management for individuals attending the PHP/IOP programs for both the mental health and substance use disorder tracks. Additionally, she worked in a private outpatient practice providing medication management via telehealth for adolescents and adults. After moving from Tennessee to Washington and prior to joining Mindful Health Solutions, she worked at Navos, a community mental health clinic, caring for adults and older adults with serious mental illnesses.

Kelsey is a strong LGBTQ ally. She has worked with organizations to improve care for LGBTQIA+ patients via staff education, presenting clinical grand rounds, and by helping change workplace culture and policies.

Kelsey feels honored to be a part of her patients’ stories and supports them in not only achieving remission of their symptoms, but towards living a life filled with wholeness and joy.