Alan “Tony” Amberg

MSN APRN PMHNP-BC

Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner

“…far more than just maintaining the machine”

It’s About Results.What gives me the greatest satisfaction is seeing a real difference as a result of my work. I want more for you. More healing, if you are my patient. More effectiveness, if you partner with me through referrals. More breakthroughs and excellent results from my speaking, training and clinical supervision work.  

A Safe Place for Healing, Progress, and Realized Potential. Wherever we begin in our work together, my focus is on your success, the authentic human being inside you. This focus flows through my teaching, speaking, consulting and direct psychiatric services: because real healing, real progress and effectiveness are far more than just maintaining the machine. It’s about creating a safe place to stop the hurt, identify the challenges, allow a return to functionality, and progress to launching the true potential that lives inside each one of us. 

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  • Psychology Today

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  • LinkedIn

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  • American Psychiatric Nurses Association

    (Former President Illinois Chapter)

  • ISAPN

    (Program committee)

  • 2021 Nurses of the Year

    Honored by ISPN

  • "Hero for Better"

    Northwestern Medicine 2021

  • NP Spotlight

    NP Psych Navigator

Services/Specializations:

  • General Psychiatry

  • Complex Medical & Psychiatric Conditions

  • Geriatric Psychiatry

  • Addiction/ Substance Use

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Training & Speaking – Recent Experience

  • Teaching and Precepting:

    • Spiritual Care Training Partnership with Chaplain Residents

    • Clinical Instructor - Psychiatric Nursing (DePaul, Chamberlain)

    • Clinical Preceptor for over two dozen Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners

  • Keynotes:

    • University of Illinois "The Power of Preceptorship"

    • Illinois Society of Advanced Practice Nurses 2019 Midwest Conference

  • Trainings:

    • Northwestern Medicine Advanced Practice Provider Grand Rounds (Multiple)

    • Illinois Society of Advanced Practice Nurses

    • Psychopharm Update 2019

    • Psychopharm Update 2020

    • University of Illinois Fall Seminar Series for FNP and PMHNP students

    • PsychU: Serving as Nurses Corner Section Advisor

    Topics Include:

    • Psychological First Aid By Nurses, For Nurses

    • The Wizard of Zzzzz

    • Often Started, Frequently Unfinished: rationally prescribing and optimizing antidepressants

    • Marijuana is Legal – Here We Go!

    • Recognizing & Treating Alcohol Use Disorder

    • Mind and Body: Psychotropic Effects on Physiological Health

    • Are You Ready for the Golden Years? Intro to Geriatric Psychopharmacology

  • Conferences:

    • APNA (American Psychiatric Nurses Association National) - 2016, 2019, 2020

    • Northwestern Medicine Annual Advanced Practice Providers Conference (two sessions)

    • Illinois Chapter of APNA (multiple years)

    • Illinois Society of Advanced Practice Nurses (multiple years)

    • International Society of Psychiatric Nursing

    • Northwestern Medicine Neuroscience Conference

    • Illinois Association of Physician Assistants

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