Thoughtful Care. Strategic Insight. Wellness by Design.
Angela Weiss, MSN, APRN, FNP-C, PMHNP-BC
Founder | Clinical Consultant | Behavioral Health Advisor
About Angela Weiss
Angela Weiss, MSN, APRN, FNP-C, PMHNP-BC, is the Founder of Wellness by Design Health and a dual board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner and Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner dedicated to providing thoughtful, relationship-centered care for individuals and organizations navigating complex healthcare and life transitions.
With more than fifteen years of licensed clinical nursing experience, Angela’s career spans emergency and critical care environments, inpatient and outpatient psychiatry, rehabilitation medicine, geriatrics, forensic and community mental health, primary care, and multi-state telehealth practice. She has cared for medically complex and high-acuity populations across rural healthcare communities, large academic medical centers, hospital systems, rehabilitation programs, nursing facilities, and community-based services.
Her background includes intensive care and emergency medicine, neurocritical and cardiovascular intensive care, oncology populations, and rehabilitation programs supporting individuals recovering from spinal cord injury and amputation. These experiences shape a diagnostic approach grounded in understanding the whole person rather than focusing solely on presenting psychiatric symptoms.
Angela currently provides outpatient psychiatric care including psychotherapy and medication management for adults navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, burnout, life transitions, and the intersection of medical and mental health concerns. Many individuals seek her care after feeling unheard within traditional healthcare systems or when previous treatment approaches have not fully addressed underlying concerns.
She previously served as Lead Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner supporting geriatric and adult inpatient psychiatric programs caring for high-acuity populations requiring interdisciplinary collaboration and complex treatment planning. Her experience also includes psychiatric consultation services within emergency departments and intensive care environments assisting teams managing behavioral health crises and medically complicated psychiatric presentations.
Angela believes mental health cannot be separated from physical health, life experience, or environment. Her approach integrates evidence-based psychiatric care, psychotherapy, and comprehensive whole-person evaluation designed to support lasting stability rather than temporary symptom relief.
A central component of her philosophy is helping patients achieve wellness using the least amount of medication necessary when clinically appropriate. She emphasizes thoughtful prescribing, comprehensive medication review, and deprescribing strategies to reduce unnecessary polypharmacy while prioritizing safety, clarity, and quality of life.
She strives to create a safe, nonjudgmental environment where individuals feel supported from their most difficult starting points toward meaningful healing and sustainable growth.
In addition to direct patient care, Angela has contributed to systems-level improvement through healthcare ethics committee participation and policy and procedure development supporting patient safety, clinical decision-making, and organizational accountability.
Her work has included multi-state psychiatric consultation and behavioral health integration support, including service within Optum Behavioral Health assisting primary care teams caring for medically and psychiatrically complex populations nationwide.
Angela has collaborated with interdisciplinary teams and state leadership on innovative care models, including participation in a Missouri Department of Mental Health pilot program focused on improving stability and community placement outcomes for individuals with dual diagnoses.
Through Wellness by Design Health, Angela provides private clinical services alongside consulting and workplace advisory support. She partners with adults seeking personalized psychiatric and psychotherapy care as well as organizations across healthcare, corporate, nonprofit, educational, and leadership environments addressing burnout, workforce sustainability, communication challenges, leadership stress, and complex behavioral health needs affecting organizational outcomes.
Her interdisciplinary consultation work includes behavioral health integration, complex case collaboration, deprescribing and polypharmacy review strategies, and support for programs serving medically and behaviorally complex populations.
Angela’s philosophy is simple: intentional care creates meaningful change — for individuals, professionals, and the systems designed to support them.
Outside of clinical and consulting work, Angela is an author and educator focused on helping people live and lead with intention through her Life by Design philosophy.
Professional & Educational Background
Angela Weiss completed Registered Nurse training at Mineral Area College in Park Hills, Missouri. She earned both her Bachelor of Science in Nursing and Master of Science in Nursing — Family Nurse Practitioner — through Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri, followed by advanced graduate psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner training at the University of Missouri–St. Louis.
She maintains national board certification through the American Association of Nurse Practitioners and the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
Her clinical experience spans intensive care, emergency medicine, neurocritical care, cardiovascular intensive care, inpatient psychiatry leadership, rehabilitation medicine, oncology, community-based psychiatry, forensic settings, telehealth consultation, and interdisciplinary program development across rural healthcare systems and large academic medical environments.
Supporting healing for individuals and healthier workplaces through thoughtful psychiatric care, psychotherapy, and practical mental health solutions designed with intention.
Who I Serve
Individuals seeking thoughtful psychiatric care and psychotherapy.
Organizations and leadership teams addressing workplace mental health and resilience.
Healthcare and community programs supporting medically and behaviorally complex patient populations.
Practice & Consultation Availability
All individual clinical services provided through Wellness by Design Health are delivered via secure telehealth platforms.
Angela currently provides outpatient psychiatric medication management and psychotherapy services to patients physically located in Washington State at the time of service.
Psychotherapy services are available to individuals located in Missouri and other states where Angela maintains active licensure and practice authority in accordance with state regulations.
Organizational consultation and workforce mental health advisory services are available nationwide and are provided virtually or in person depending on organizational needs.
Organizational and consultation services focus on sustainable solutions addressing burnout prevention, leadership support, communication challenges, and workforce wellbeing.
Angela also partners with healthcare and community-based programs supporting medically and behaviorally complex patient populations across states where she maintains professional licensure.
Clinical services are provided only to patients physically located in states where Angela maintains active licensure at the time of service.
Wellness by Design Health does not provide emergency or crisis services. Individuals experiencing a medical or mental health emergency should call 911 or seek immediate local emergency support.
Professional Experience Across Practice Environments
Angela has provided clinical care and consultation across diverse healthcare environments including rural communities, large academic and teaching hospital systems, inpatient and outpatient psychiatric settings, rehabilitation programs, community-based services, and multi-state telehealth practice.
Her work has supported patients and organizations across multiple states including Missouri, Washington, Illinois, Michigan, Texas, Florida, Arkansas and Indiana.
Angela welcomes collaboration with interdisciplinary teams seeking thoughtful solutions for complex clinical and organizational challenges.
My Approach & Who I Work With
Angela partners with adults seeking thoughtful, relationship-centered psychiatric care and psychotherapy during seasons of stress, transition, or emotional overwhelm. Many individuals come to care after feeling unheard within traditional healthcare environments or when previous treatment approaches have not fully addressed underlying concerns.
She commonly works with individuals experiencing anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, burnout, professional stress, life transitions, ADHD and executive functioning challenges, caregiver fatigue, and complex medical and mental health overlap. Angela also supports individuals navigating perimenopause, menopause, and other hormonal transitions that may contribute to mood changes, anxiety, sleep disruption, or cognitive concerns.
Her clinical approach reflects a strong medical and critical care foundation, recognizing that mental health symptoms are often influenced by physical health, medications, sleep patterns, stress exposure, hormonal changes, and life circumstances. When appropriate, evaluation may include comprehensive medical history review and laboratory assessment to better understand factors contributing to emotional and cognitive wellbeing.
Care may include psychotherapy alone or integrated psychiatric evaluation and medication management when beneficial. Angela emphasizes thoughtful prescribing and collaborative decision-making, with a focus on using the least amount of medication necessary to safely support stability and quality of life whenever clinically appropriate. Medication review and deprescribing strategies may be incorporated to reduce unnecessary polypharmacy while prioritizing patient safety and clarity of treatment goals.
Angela recognizes that not every individual desires medication as the primary path to healing. When appropriate and aligned with patient preference, treatment may also incorporate lifestyle considerations, stress regulation strategies, and collaboration with other healthcare providers to support whole-person wellness.
She strives to create a safe, nonjudgmental environment where individuals feel supported from their most difficult starting points toward meaningful healing and growth. Care is collaborative and paced according to individual readiness, recognizing that lasting change happens through trust, understanding, and consistent support.
Angela works best with individuals who are willing to engage thoughtfully in the healing process. While everyone begins from a different place, meaningful progress often requires curiosity, honesty, and a commitment to growth over time. Treatment is designed not only to reduce symptoms, but to support resilience, clarity, and sustainable wellbeing.
Care is individualized and collaborative, recognizing that no two healing journeys are the same. Treatment may involve psychotherapy alone or integrated medication management depending on clinical needs and patient preference.
Professional Scope & Specialty Focus
Wellness by Design Health provides both individual psychiatric care and organizational consultation services designed to support meaningful and sustainable wellbeing for individuals, teams, and systems.
Individual Clinical Care
Individual services include psychiatric evaluation, psychotherapy, and medication management focused on trauma-informed care, burnout recovery, whole-person wellness, and complex medical and mental health overlap.
Angela provides care to individuals from diverse backgrounds and experiences and commonly supports anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, life transitions, burnout, and related emotional concerns.
While psychiatric care may include psychotherapy and medication management when appropriate, certain highly specialized services fall outside the primary focus of this practice.
The practice does not provide gender transition–related hormone management or evaluation letters required for gender-affirming surgical procedures. Individuals seeking these specialized services are encouraged to work with clinicians whose practices focus specifically in that area of care.
Treatment of primary personality disorders requiring intensive specialty therapy programs is also outside the primary focus of this practice.
Psychotherapy services emphasize supportive, insight-oriented, and trauma-informed approaches. Specialty treatment modalities requiring structured certification-based delivery models, including Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) programs and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), are not offered within this practice.
When needs fall outside the scope of individual clinical services, referral recommendations may be provided to support appropriate care.
Organizational Consultation
Workplace and organizational consultation services focus on behavioral health integration, burnout prevention, leadership support, communication challenges, interdisciplinary collaboration, and workforce wellbeing.
Consulting services are advisory and educational in nature and do not involve individual diagnosis or treatment of employees.
Angela partners with healthcare organizations, businesses, educational institutions, nonprofit programs, and community-based services seeking thoughtful mental health strategies that improve both human experience and organizational outcomes.
Practice & Consultation Availability
All individual clinical services provided through Wellness by Design Health are delivered exclusively through secure telehealth platforms.
Angela currently provides outpatient psychiatric medication management and psychotherapy services via telehealth to patients physically located in Washington State at the time of service.
Psychotherapy services are available to individuals physically located in Missouri and other states where Angela maintains active licensure and practice authority in accordance with state regulations.
Clinical services are provided only to patients physically located in states where Angela maintains active licensure at the time of each appointment.
All individual clinical services are provided by scheduled appointment only.
Wellness by Design Health does not offer after-hours, weekend, or holiday clinical availability. Patients requiring urgent or emergency support outside scheduled appointment times should contact local emergency services or call 911.
Secure messaging and administrative communication are available for scheduling coordination and brief clinical questions when appropriate; however, messaging is not intended to replace scheduled appointments or ongoing psychotherapy support.
Organizational consultation and workforce mental health advisory services are available nationwide. Consulting services may be provided virtually or in person depending on organizational needs.
Angela also partners with healthcare organizations, businesses, and community-based programs through telehealth consultation and advisory services supporting medically and behaviorally complex populations across states where she maintains professional licensure.
Wellness by Design Health does not provide emergency or crisis services. Individuals experiencing a mental health emergency should call 911 or seek immediate local emergency support.
Work Together
Wellness by Design Health partners with individuals and organizations seeking thoughtful solutions for complex personal, clinical, and workplace challenges. Every collaboration begins with understanding — creating space to explore goals, needs, and whether Wellness by Design Health is the right fit for the work ahead.
Individual Care
Individual psychiatric care is designed for adults seeking psychotherapy, psychiatric evaluation, or medication management within a relationship-centered and trauma-informed environment.
Many individuals seek care during seasons of transition, grief, burnout, anxiety, or emotional overwhelm, or when previous treatment approaches have not fully addressed underlying concerns. Angela’s approach emphasizes whole-person understanding, thoughtful prescribing when appropriate, and collaborative psychotherapy designed to support meaningful and sustainable change.
Services are provided via secure telehealth platforms for individuals physically located in states where Angela maintains licensure.
Healthcare & Community Program Consultation
Angela collaborates with healthcare organizations and community-based programs supporting medically and behaviorally complex populations seeking psychiatric expertise within interdisciplinary care environments.
Consultation services may include case collaboration, behavioral health integration support, diagnostic clarification, medication and polypharmacy review strategies, team communication support, and guidance designed to improve patient stability while strengthening coordination across care teams.
Consultation services are advisory and educational in nature and are typically provided through telehealth consultation and advisory services depending on program needs.
Workplace & Organizational Wellbeing Consultation
Angela partners with organizations seeking practical mental health strategies that support employee wellbeing, leadership resilience, and sustainable workplace culture.
Workforce consultation may include burnout prevention strategies, leadership and communication challenges, mental health education, interdisciplinary collaboration support, and approaches designed to improve retention, engagement, and overall organizational health.
Consulting services may be provided virtually or in person depending on organizational needs.
A Thoughtful Starting Place
Each engagement begins with a collaborative conversation to better understand goals, challenges, and opportunities for meaningful change.
What You Can Expect
Whole-Person Understanding
Mental health cannot be separated from physical health, life experience, or environment. Care begins with listening and thoughtful evaluation — considering medical, emotional, and situational factors before developing individualized solutions designed for lasting stability.
Relationship-Centered Partnership
Meaningful change happens through trust developed over time. Angela works collaboratively alongside individuals, healthcare teams, and organizations to support clear communication, shared goals, and sustainable progress.
Clinical Depth With Practical Strategy
Drawing from experience across critical care, inpatient and outpatient psychiatry, interdisciplinary consultation, and multi-state telehealth practice, Angela integrates clinical expertise with practical solutions that support both individual healing and organizational effectiveness.