About

Deidra Thompson, DNP, APRN, FNP-C, PMHNP-BC was born and raised in Mississippi. Her nursing career started in 2010 when she received a nursing degree from Excelsior College in New York. She received a Master of Science in Nursing degree with a Family Nurse Practitioner specialty from Alcorn State University in 2014 before obtaining a post-graduate certificate in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing from the University of Southern Mississippi in 2015. She received her Doctor of Nurse Practice degree from Walden University in February 2018. Dr. Thompson is certified by the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners and the American Nurses Credentialing Center. She has more than a decade of experience practicing as both a family and psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner both in-person and via telehealth at hospitals, long-term care facilities, emergency rooms, and outpatient facilities across the states of Mississippi, Louisiana, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Missouri, and Minnesota. She works hard to improve access to care and reduce health disparities. She specializes in the treatment of depression, anxiety, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.