About

Hi, my name is Tahara. I am a board certified psychiatric provider based in New York.

Employment Experience / Education

What was your path to becoming a Nurse Practitioner?

Before my current role as a provider, I was a nurse on a medical/surgical unit and on a cardiac/surgery intensive care unit at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx. I learned how to assess acutely-complicated patients and care for them from head to toe. I cultivated relationships with my patients and families in times of struggle and grief. After this, I worked on the inpatient psychiatric unit at Harlem Hospital. There, I provided culturally-competent care to the majority of the underprivileged and underserved patients. Patients were admitted because they were dangers to themselves or others and needed acute treatment for their symptoms. I managed their medical care and managed their medications. Currently, I work in a psychiatric clinic, working with chronic mental illness, including depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia. I collaborate with therapists, primary care physicians, and those in other disciplines to provide the best care for my clients.

What should someone know about working with you?

My intake process consists of certain questions I usually ask all my clients. I will work with you based on your individual needs starting from the first session. I have worked with clients with different types of cultural backgrounds. I have experience working with clients with depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and other types of chronic mental illness. I encourage progress by providing medication management and therapeutic interventions that are tailored to the client and relieve the symptoms that they are struggling with.

What do you do to continue learning and building competencies as a provider?

I strive to better myself every day and love to learn. I encourage my clients to be their own advocates in their treatment and care. We discuss their symptoms, how to relieve their symptoms, and what works for them. I get excited when I learn something is working for my clients or find something interesting in the literature that I can utilize. I am a member of several organizations and go to neuroscience education conferences to better my care. I believe being a lifelong learner is invaluable for my clients and me.

How do your core values shape your approach to therapy?

I grew up in a low-income family, and I was extremely motivated to work in the medical profession and now as a psychiatric provider because I always wanted to help the less fortunate. My parents are first-generation immigrants who did not speak English. What matters to me is providing care to everyone in the community and making sure that care is accessible and culturally-competent. Mental health has always been my passion and was always put on the back-burner of medical care. It is just now with the rise in depression and anxiety that there is less of a stigma behind mental health treatment. I love to see where we go with mental health care in the future.

Medication Management with therapeutic techniques in the session