Coping Nurse Practitioner in Psychiatry Services: Judy Vansiea, DNP, MA, MS, APRN, NPP
(on rxr plaza)Counseling & Mental Health in Uniondale, NY
Counseling & Mental Health
About Us
Judy E. Vansiea, DNP, MA, MS, APRN, NPP, is the owner and operator of Coping Nurse Practitioner in Psychiatry Services in Uniondale, New York. She applies a faith-based approach to mental health to help people cope, adjust, and adapt to life’s diverse challenges. Dr. Vansiea engages, encourages, and empowers men and women to find motivation and regain mental control by using healthy ways to cope with life’s challenging journey when experiencing mental illness or substance use disorders. She employs various treatments, such as evidence-based psychotherapy, Christian counseling, and chemical dependency assessments.
A naturalized U.S. citizen, Dr. Vansiea was born in Monrovia, Liberia, and lived there until elementary school. She has been a registered nurse for more than two decades and worked in a variety of nursing settings. Dr. Vansiea served as an army nurse, having been commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army. She is a Gulf War Era veteran and was honorably and medically discharged from the US Army in 2002. Dr. Vansiea received her Associate of Science in Pre-Nursing from Mary Holmes College in West Point, Mississippi, where she was salutatorian of her class.
Coping Nurse Practitioner in Psychiatry Services is a faith-based practice that has a mission of CARE, helping patients Cope, providing Appropriate support, offering up Respect, and Empowering lives. Dr. Vansiea has a holistic integrated approach to mental health and substance use disorders treatment that focuses on three strategies of Intervention, Stabilization, and Rehabilitation for recovery and healing. The practice offers compassion and a safe space for when patients are dealing with mental health problems, mental illness, and substance use disorders. Dr. Vansiea provides the appropriate, patient-centered, sensitive, and biblically-based treatments and support. She treats each patient with love and dignity, empowering the lives of people who are marginalized or disenfranchised or have veteran status.
She graduated with a dual degree of Bachelor of Science in Nursing and Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences Interdisciplinary Studies from the State University of New York inStony Brook, New York. She went on to earn a Master of Science Degree in Mental Health Psychiatric Nursing. She received the distinctions of Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) with a focus in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, leading to her current license and certification as a Nurse Practitioner in Psychiatry. Dr. Vansiea also received a Master of Arts in Addiction Counseling from the Hazelden Betty Ford Graduate School of Addiction Studies, Center City, Minnesota.
Dr. Vansiea holds an Internationally Certified Alcohol & Drug Counselor (ICADC) certification as well. Dr. Vansiea went on to earn the highest clinical degree in her field, a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP), with a focus in Transcultural Nursing Leadership from Augsburg University in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Dr. Vansiea has received numerous accolades and professional awards. She sees patients in her New York office; patients can call for an appointment or use this website to schedule one.
