Dana Dean Doering, ARNP, a psychiatric nurse practitioner, has national board certification in child and adolescent psychiatric mental health and has been a practicing Psychiatric Mental Health and Pediatric clinician for over 45 years. She began her career in developmental pediatrics with a strong emphasis on normative growth and development. This developmental perspective, combined with over three decades of clinical practice, and specialty suicide risk assessment and university research experience, builds the foundation for crisis expertise. Dana orchestrates the crisis intervention team, taking the clinical lead on every case in the practice.
Dana served on the Washington State Governor's task force for suicide prevention and was the community liaison to all Washington State counties. Dana served on the 'Reconnecting At-Risk Youth' team, a nationally recognized research team at the University of Washington, for which she received the Outstanding Service Award. Dana believes that good assessment is the cornerstone of good treatment.
