Edward Evard

Mr. Evard is a Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner licensed in the state of Virginia. He began his career in the medical field by enlisting and serving in the US Army as a combat medic. Having spent a year in Afghanistan providing close medical support to an infantry battalion, he understands the stressors our active duty service members and veterans face and finds working with this population particularly rewarding. While in Afghanistan, he also started a program training Afghan locals in the basics of emergency and primary care medicine so that they could grow to serve their communities. Mr. Evard applies this same energy to his psychiatric practice, where his goal is to equip clients with the knowledge and care to function at their best, becoming sources of positive change in their own communities. After honorably discharging from the US Army and having come from a family of nurses, Mr. Evard elected to pursue a nursing career himself, the initial stage of which was spent in the Sentara Heart Hospital Cardiac ICU. This experience grounded Mr. Evard and he continues to welcome the opportunity to work with medically complex clients that need a provider who understands the ways mental health is impacted by other conditions, to include cardio-metabolic disease, endocrine disorders, and pain. Mr. Evard has spent eight years working in inpatient, partial hospitalization, and outpatient mental health settings. He has the expertise and experience to help clients suffering from the full spectrum of mental health disorders and symptoms. He utilizes a wide range of treatment modalities to assist clients in achieving their goals, to include medication, lifestyle interventions, and brief therapy. Consistent with his uniquely personalized approach to client care, he offers pharmacogenetic testing to identify the medications most likely to benefit clients. Mr. Evard is also trained in the utilization of Spravato (intranasal esketamine), a fast-acting and cutting-edge treatment for severe and resistant forms of depression. He is particularly skilled in helping clients with treatment resistant bipolar disorder, depression, attention-deficit disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder.