If mental or behavioral health challenges are disrupting your daily life, our psychiatric team can help.

What makes our approach special?

It’s normal to feel a little nervous when seeking professional help with behavioral or mental health challenges. With counselors, therapists, and psychiatrists to choose from, it can be tough even knowing where to start. At Boundless, we offer a straightforward approach that blends psychiatry, telepsychiatry, and care coordination to provide the care you’re after.

Why work with a psychiatrist?

A psychiatrist is a medical doctor who diagnoses and treats behavioral and mental health challenges. They attend medical school and complete a residency program, often receiving certification in a specialty area. As a medical doctor, a psychiatrist can prescribe medication. This medical expertise is a key difference between psychiatrists from psychologists or other counselors. Psychiatric nurse practitioners support a psychiatrist and also diagnose and treat patients with similar needs.

Meet Our Central Ohio Clinicians

Alexa Kaufman

Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

Alexa is a board-certified psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner trained to provide comprehensive mental health care through prescription medication and psychotherapy. She has extensive experience working with people of all ages who exhibit challenging mental states. When Alexa isn’t putting her practice to work, she is spending time with family and dogs or traveling.

She attended The Ohio State University, where she obtained her bachelor’s degree in public health with a concentrati...

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Amber Budd

Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner

Amber is a board-certified psychiatric nurse practitioner, who has practiced psychiatry for five years. In those five years, Amber has gained experience in addiction medicine, community psychiatry, child psychiatry, and adult psychiatry. She is currently serving on the psychiatric team at Boundless Health in outpatient behavioral health.
Amber is a graduate of The Ohio State University.

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Christopher Daughtery

Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner

Christopher is a registered nurse, a board-certified family nurse practitioner, and a psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner. He has had over twelve years of experience in nursing and eight years in the field as a nurse practitioner. He has provided care to individuals from diverse cultures and backgrounds as well as to patients who have different conditions, such as autism and other developmental disorders. His experience caring for adult cancer patients sparked his interest in mental healt...

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Kristen Elliot

Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner

Kristen is a board-certified psychiatric nurse practitioner at Boundless Health. She became a part of the Boundless psychiatric team because of her passion for helping people of all ages reach their highest potential. She is also an RN who worked in the emergency department before completing her educational specialization in family practice and psychiatry. When Kristen is not working in her field, she enjoys gardening, traveling, and spending time with family.

Kristen is a gr...

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What challenges can psychiatry help address?

Our team has extensive experience treating people dealing with a range of challenges that impact mental health and overall well-being.

Neurodevelopmental disorders

developmental delays spanning across all ages
language/communication concerns
autism spectrum
intellectual disabilities
attention deficit hyperactivity disorders (ADHD)
specific learning disorders
Tourettes/tic disorders

Mood disorders and psychosis

schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
bipolar and related mood disorder
depressive disorders

Anxiety disorders

panic disorder
generalized anxiety
separation anxiety
specific phobias
Obsessive-Compulsive disorders

Trauma and stressor-related disorders

acute stress
post-traumatic stress disorders
stress secondary to bullying and other factors

Disruptive, impulse control, and conduct disorders

intermittent explosive disorder
oppositional defiant disorder
conduct disorder

Relational problems

parent-child relationship issues
child maltreatment and neglect
adult maltreatment and neglect

Is psychiatry right for me or my loved one?

We are experienced in treating individuals dealing with depression, anxiety, adjustment disorder, ADHD, bipolar disorder, psychosis, oppositional defiant disorder, conduct disorder, intellectual disabilities, autism, and more.