Maria Teresa Nieves, APRN, PMHNP-BC, is a Bi-Lingual (English & Spanish) Board Certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. She earned her bachelor’s degree in nursing in 1997 at Medical Science Campus University in Puerto Rico and completed her Master of Science in Nursing specializing in psychiatry from Walden University in 2022.

She has over 25 years of clinical experience in various settings including primary care, Emergency Room, Oncology, Home Health, and acute psychiatric care.

Maria has cared for patients of all ages as well as provided comforting measures to their families. As a nurse she believes that patients should be treated like family, and that is always her first focus and responsibility.