The Wellcore Mission
Our mission is to provide quality psychiatric treatment to those in need of community mental health care services.
What is “rooted nursing”?
In Maryland, nurse practitioners provide the same level of care as doctors. But, with a treatment philosophy rooted in nursing, our plans and care are holistic and focus on the whole person. Everyone individual is unique and complex, and we first need to understand who they are and where they came from before we can develop the right plan.
Our goal is to establish partnerships and promote health and well-being, and this takes time. Care goes beyond prescriptions, ordering labs, and interpreting tests. After evaluating a patient to understand their needs, listening and asking questions, and, if necessary, speaking to their family, we may connect the patient with a therapist or counselor who can help put them on the path to wellness.
Psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners blend science and caring and we incorporate both into every Wellcore session, building trusted relationships and providing a whole-body approach to quality psychiatric care. People are dynamic and ever-changing, so we explore the health of the body and the mind, keenly aware of the impact of different backgrounds and environments on health and development. We use what we learn to guide care, build relationships and help people reach their highest potential.
Who is Jennifer Johnson?
Jennifer Johnson
Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, Organizer and Owner Wellcore Psychiatry of Maryland LLC.
Jennifer Johnson is a board certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) in family psychiatry, a Baltimore native who relocated to the Bel Air Harford County area after finishing her Bachelor of Nursing at the University of Maryland School of Nursing (UMSON) in 2009. Early in her career, she worked with patients at the Ashley Addiction Treatment Centers (formerly known Father Martins Ashley) suffering mental illness and addictions. Returning to UMSON, she earned her Master of Nursing (MSN) and graduated as an honorary member of Sigma Theta Tau Pi in 2014.
After receiving her MSN, Jennifer returned to Ashley, playing an integral role in the development, piloting and serving as Ashley’s first Intensive Outpatient Program. As a consultant to Emmorton Psych located in Bel Air, MD and working with Forensic Psychologist Dr. Stephen Zimmerman, Jennifer provided community mental health services for families in Baltimore City and to patients released from prison needing psychiatric mental health evaluations and medication management of mental health disorders.
Jennifer began working with adolescents through her Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurse Internship at the Mountain Manor Treatment Center, serving adolescents with psychiatric illnesses and addictions. She continued to work with adolescents when she moved in 2016 to Sheppard Pratt Health Systems, Towson Child and Adolescent Day Hospital program. There, she worked in the inpatient adolescent units, providing immediate stabilization, medication management, and crisis management for voluntary and involuntary mental health patients. She also treated adolescents with mood disorders, impulse control disorder of conduct, oppositional defiant disorder, schizophrenia, psychosis, ADHD, personality disorders, self-injurious behaviors, suicidal ideations and suicide attempts, homicidal ideations, OCD, Autism level 3 support, and other neuropsychiatric disorders. Jennifer continued to expand her responsibilities, serving Sheppard Pratt’s Crisis Walk in Clinic and Crisis Admission Unit where she assisted patients up to age 65 in urgent or emergent crises.