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Charlie Xiao, Charlie Xiao, PMHNP

Psychiatric nurse practitioner

(he/him)

 I am passionate about making a positive impact on each child's life and helping them overcome their struggles and challenges. Their resiliency and successes, large and small, are what inspire me each and every day."

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About Charlie Xiao, PMHNP

Charlie Xiao is a psychiatric nurse practitioner at Brightline’s Columbus Circle and Long Island locations and provides online care for families in Connecticut. He supports kids and teens with complex presentations and a wide variety of concerns, including autism, ADHD, depression, bipolar, anxiety, OCD, trauma, and other disruptive disorders. 

Charlie approaches every case comprehensively, with a biopsychosocial framework, and taking spiritual and cultural views into consideration. He collaborates with the entire Brightline team, as well as pediatricians, parents, schools, and other important adults in each child’s life to provide on-going care. 

He has worked in a variety of settings and has lived the experience of raising a child with a serious mental illness who has turned out to be a thriving young adult. 


Professional Summary

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  • Education:

    • Master of Science in Nursing (MSN), New York University 

    • Master of Business Administration (MBA), University of Rochester

    • Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BS), City University New York (CUNY) Lehman College 

  • Therapeutic approaches and certification(s): Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), motivational interviewing (MI), parent management training (PMT), dialectic behavior therapy (DBT)

  • License Type(s): Registered Nurse (RN), Nurse Practitioner in Psychiatry (NP)

  • States where clinician is licensed: Connecticut RN (236644), Connecticut NP (16240),  New Jersey RN (26NR22787000), New York RN (814226); New York NP (406148)

  • Experience: 

    • Private Practice Clinician 

    • Psychiatric Consultant, Happiness Pediatrics

    • Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, Flushing Hospital

    • Registered Nurse, NYC HHC Bellevue Hospital Center

    • Registered Nurse, Veritas Collaborative

    • Registered Nurse, Creedmoor Psychiatric Center

    • Social Practitioner, Fountain House

  • Training: 

    • Intern, Jamaica Hospital 

    • Intern, NYU Langone Hospital (Brooklyn) 

    • Intern, Hamilton Madison House

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What is a psychiatric nurse practitioner?

Our psychiatric nurse practitioners are independently licensed practitioners who have advanced certificates or licenses. They are qualified to do diagnostic evaluations and provide medication management. Psychiatric nurse practitioners do not hold ongoing therapy sessions, but they often incorporate brief psychotherapeutic skills into their care and are able to directly refer families who need that service to a Brightline therapist or psychologist.

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