Dare To Care Too

Dare To Care Too in Largo, Maryland, provides child and adult psychiatric and mental health services, offering patients a choice of in-person and telehealth appointments. Joy Ellis-George, APRN, PMHNP-BC, CCM, and Linda Kalle, APRN, PMHNP-BC, have a long track record of providing compassionate care, including medication management and individual and group counseling to people struggling with life challenges and mental health disorders.

The Dare To Care Too team improves each patient’s quality of life, listening to their story, working with them to identify their needs and goals, and collaborating to create a personalized plan to achieve their goals.

Its skilled psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners specialize in complex care for patients with a long history of hospitalizations and difficulty adhering to their recommended medication regimen. They prescribe long-acting injectables (LAIs), ensuring patients get the medicine they need without worrying about taking daily tablets.

The team also diagnoses and treats patients with co-occurring mental health disorders or multiple medical conditions, using a team approach and screening tools at each appointment to enhance symptom improvement and achieve optimal health and well-being.

People seek help at Dare To Care Too for every type of mental health disorder, ranging from anxiety, depression, and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia.

The team also specializes in child behavioral issues, such as oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), as well as developmental disabilities like attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), which is often diagnosed in children but persists throughout adulthood.

People seeking psychiatric and mental health providers who care about the whole person, combining medication, therapy, and lifestyle recommendations like dietary changes, should call Dare To Care Too or request an in-person or telehealth appointment using online booking today.