Austin Kopas, PMHNP-BC, is a Nurse Practitioner who specializes in mood disorders like depression and bipolar, anxiety, OCD, ADHD, and schizophrenia-type disorders. Before completing his psychiatric nursing graduate degree, he worked for 5 years in a trauma intensive care unit treating victims after events like car crashes and gunshot wounds. Austin is inclusive of all patients and is passionate about making them feel safe, informed, and comfortable when discussing their care. He embraces a holistic practice that encourages patients to adopt evidence-based mental health routines balanced with a conservative approach to prescription medications when necessary. Austin is a charismatic, dog-loving person who enjoys the outdoors, computer science, keeping up on the cutting-edge mental health treatments, and practicing what he preaches when it comes to meditation, sleep hygiene, natural vitamins, diet, and exercise.