Meet your provider
Marguerite "Peggy" Addison, APRN, PMHNP, BC
Education
- I am an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse, Family Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, MSN, and Board Certified through the American Nurses Credentialing Center to treat all ages.
- I recieved my RN from McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana and my Masters in Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing from The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA)
Professional experience
I have been treating as a PMH-NP since 2008, treating multiple diagnoses, specializing in anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia, with a special interest in perinatal psychiatry and eating disorders. Prior to becoming an NP, I had 16 years of in-patient psychiatric experience as an RN working in adolescent and adult psychiatry, alcohol, and addiction units, including six and a half years as head nurse on the psychiatric intensive care unit at The Methodist Hospital in Houston.
I work collaboratively to diagnose and treat mental health disorders and emphasizes a comprehensive approach of healthy lifestyle changes along with therapy to reach optimal functioning.
Achievements
- Multiple clinical excellence awards, was a member of Sigma Theta Tau Honorary Society, and was named a “University Scholar” at UTA.
- Member of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, American Nurses Association, Texas Nurses Association, Texas Nurse Practitioners of North Texas, Texas Nurse Practitioners, Postpartum Support International, International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals, and the Neuroscience Education Institute.
- Works as a preceptor/ graduate clinical instructor for UTA since 2009 and formerly an undergraduate clinical instructor for Texas Woman’s University from 2009-2011.