Welcome to The Psych Nest

Let’s find an authentic path forward

Discover my services

What’s in The Nest?

Consultation

$ Free

This is a 15 minute free-of-charge meeting for you to ask any initial questions and determine if The Psych Nest services are the right match for you. Currently, The Psych Nest does not provide consultation for pyschiatric service animals.

Health conditions treated: Depression, Bipolar, ADHD, Anxiety (Generalized, Social, Panic Disorders, Performance), PTSD, OCD, Schizophrenia, Sleep Disorders, Substance Use, Life Transitions, or needing support adjusting to a recent life event or change (move, break-up, job/professional shift).

Psychiatric Evaluation

$425

This is an initial comprehensive psychiatric assessment that lasts approximately 90 minutes. The visit will cover your primary reasons for seeking services at this time and a psychiatric, medical, and social history. Towards the latter part of the session, I will formulate a diagnosis(es), and make treatment plan recommendations that may include both medication and other therapuetic interventions.

Follow-up visit

$200-250

After the intial evaluation, follow-up visits consist of medication check-ins, adjustments, and/or episodic interventional psychotherapy. Visit frequency is tailored to your specific needs such as stabilization of medication and symptoms.

Who’s in The Nest?

Chris Nester DNP, NP-BC

  • Chris is a healthcare professional with over two decades of clinical experience. He holds a doctorate in mental health nursing and is a board certified psychiatric nurse practitioner and pscyhotherapist. He obtained his undergraduate and graduate degress from top-ranked Johns Hopkins and Rush Universities.

  • Chris provides trauma-informed, patient centered care that incorporates the most recent evidence-based practices and multimodal approaches. There is no single intervention that works for everyone. Chris takes careful consideration and time to partner with clients to build an individualized treatment plan. You and he are on this journey together.

  • Chris’s general framework beyond prescribing is Acceptance Committment, Supportive, and Psychodynamic schools of therapy. He is highly competent and skilled in LGBTQ+ affirmative care and treatment and holds an additional board certification in HIV/AIDS nursing.

  • Most importantly, Chris is very vested in ethical treatment and your wellbeing. He has an extensive professional network of various medical and mental health practitioners that offer specialized care. If he believes you need services that he cannot provide, he will be sure to refer you to or partner with a specialist that can.

Book a consultation or appointment here

You deserve to have improved mental health.

  • Chris is in network with several healthplans including CIgna and Aetna. However, he does not bill directly unless your visits are through Alma.

  • He can provide you a superbill to submit for reimbursement

  • He can offer sliding scale if you are experiencing financial difficulties - this can be discussed during the free 15 minute consultation

  • Consultation and appointment booking is NOT for emergencies. If you are having a mental health or medical crisis please call 988 or 911.

Contact The Nest

Interested in working together? Chris loves to partner with other practitioners: therapists, primary care providers, addictionologist, physician psychiatrists, career/life coaches. He strongly believes in ethically routing patients to the right treamtent and the right specialist. Fill out some info here and I will be in touch shortly. I look forward to hearing from you!

(This contact form is NOT for emergencies. If you are having a mental health or medical crisis please call 988 or 911.)