Hello! My name is Kristen Harker and I am a board-certified psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP-BC) and certified nurse-midwife (CNM). I am licensed as a nurse practitioner in both Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. 

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Over the past 11 years, I have directly supported hundreds of families through prenatal care, attending childbirth, and providing support in the early newborn period. I have welcomed babies into the world in homes, a birth center, small community hospitals and large, urban teaching hospitals. I have also continued to work with international organizations on reproductive health in emergency contexts, guided hospitals through improving their breastfeeding-friendly policies on their maternal-newborn units.

 

I have previously worked as a PMHNP in federally qualified health centers providing community-based outpatient diagnostic psychiatric evaluation, medication management, and trauma-focused services to diverse patient populations. My additional training in reproductive psychiatry is aligned with Postpartum Support International's Perinatal Mental Health Certification (PMH-C) designation.

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Outside of the office, you can find me growing food and medicine in my garden, hiking with my dogs, spending time with family and friends, dancing to old jazz music or engaged in various community organizations.