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Karen Luu, MSN, PMHNP-BC

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Karen Luu, MSN, PMHNP-BC is a board-certified psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner with seven years of nursing experience, including level II trauma centers, community hospitals, and mental health urgent care. Luu's private practice focuses on mental health: bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorder. She emphasizes the importance of incorporating the recovery-based model in her everyday practice.

Luu holds a master's in nursing from Azusa Pacific University and an undergraduate degree in public health science.

  • Education: Azusa Pacific University, West Coast University, University of California, Irvine

Subject areas:

Psychiatric mental health, public health science

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