Amanda Wood-Friend

Amanda is a Functional Medicine Nurse Practitioner that has been in practice since 2006. Her educational history and clinical training includes a B.A. in Biology with honors from Ithaca College, RN/APRN with honors from Mass General Institute of Health Professions, certificate in healthcare management and leadership from George Washington University and post-masters advanced studies in neurobiology of mental disorders/neuropsychiatry and clinical psychopharmacology from University of New Hampshire and Foundations of Functional Medicine and Ketamine Certification from the Elite Nurse Practitioner program. She has over 17 years of experience prescribing and managing behavioral health concerns as well as working in family practice, urgent care, substance use and recovery, eating disorders management and hormone optimization.

Amanda is passionate about providing personalized medical services and addressing each one of my patients’ individual values and unique medical needs. Her goal is to practice an integrated mental health approach which emphasizes treating the mind, body and spirit through a patient centered focus that considers all aspects of the individual person in order to optimize a sense of health and well being.

She combines scientifically proven alternative and complementary methods with conventional medications and psychotherapy to address the physical, psychological, and spiritual needs of individuals with anxiety disorders, depressive disorders, sleep disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), substance use disorders, eating disorders and mental conditions associated with aging.