Yuriy Bortnik PMHNP-BC
Notes on psychiatry, mental health, and the work of care.
Luctamur et Emergimus
I'm not currently accepting new patients. I do keep a few referrals I know and trust, though, and I'm glad to point anyone who's looking in their direction. I'm also at capacity for practice operations consulting right now, with an availability window coming up in mid-2027. The consulting work is meaningful to me, but my patients, my practice, and my colleagues come first.
Along the way
Where I learned the work
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Hunter College -
Stony Brook University -
Department of Defense -
Veterans Affairs Brooklyn · Manhattan -
SUNY Downstate Hospital · University -
Mount Sinai
About
I'm Yuriy, a board-certified psychiatric NP working with adults across New York, New Jersey, and Florida. Before specializing in mental health, I spent years as a specialty RN across a range of medical settings, from intensive care and acute care to outpatient dialysis and home health visits, covering units across the hospital. That grounding in physical health shapes how I treat the whole person. I'm approaching ten years as an NP. I spent three years in a Partial Hospitalization Program, and for the last six I've worked on my own, across both the clinical and operational sides of psychiatric care. Along the way I've practiced in multidisciplinary teams at the U.S. Department of Defense, the VA, SUNY Downstate, and Mount Sinai. I precept students and trainees, I've finished a few certificate programs in healthcare tech and operations, and I care as much about how care is delivered as what gets prescribed.
Good treatment is a partnership. You know your life better than anyone; my job is to bring the clinical piece and work it out alongside you, not hand you a prescription and move on. (Sometimes medication is the right call, and often it's the reason people come to see me in the first place.)
I'm also glad to connect for clinical coordination, questions, seminars, mental health and neurodivergence workshops, small business counseling, or community presentations. YMCA, JCC, and public school talks across NJ and NYC are always free.
Outside all of this I'm a husband, a dad, the oldest of my siblings, and someone who speaks a few languages and is slowly learning Portuguese (badly).
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