Elena Vandellos, PMHNP-BC

Nurse Practitioner

Elena Vandellos is a UCLA and UCSF trained board-certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) who provides comprehensive psychiatric care and medication management for children, adolescents and young adults in the community. She believes in a collaborative treatment approach with clients and families that addresses the client as a whole person and includes recommendations for psychotherapy, lifestyle interventions, family support, as well as medication management. She values compassionate, thorough and evidence-based psychiatric care.

Before pursuing advanced practice nursing, Elena worked for several years managing a UCLA research laboratory studying the development of children with diagnoses of ADHD and ODD, and then completed her training as a registered nurse at Samuel Merritt University in San Mateo. Subsequently she worked as a supervising nurse at an adolescent inpatient psychiatric unit in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her nurse practitioner training from University of California, San Francisco working with children, adolescents and adults in outpatient, school and crisis stabilization settings and served as a teaching assistant for UCSF’s Management of Psychotropic Regimens course. She completed specialized training in Emotionally-Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) through UCSF’s Intensive Family Therapy program and completed her final residency in outpatient child and adolescent psychiatry at Palo Alto Medical Foundation in Los Altos.

Elena is a Bay Area native from San Carlos, CA. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with her family and friends, exploring the National Park system and gardening. Elena loves working with kids and adolescents and is grateful to call CHC home.

Education

  • MS, University of California, San Francisco
  • BSN, Samuel Merritt University
  • BA, University of California, Los Angeles

Licenses

  • Board Certified Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
  • Public Health Nurse
  • Registered Nurse

Professional Affiliations

  • American Psychiatric Nurses Association

Awards

  • United Health Group Mental Health Grant
  • Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training Grant
  • Nursing Faculty of Tomorrow Teaching Fellowship