BasePoint Academy
Brandy Cooks-Thomas, FNP-C, PMHNP-BC, is a seasoned psychiatric nurse practitioner currently serving at BasePoint Academy since August 2021. With extensive experience in the mental health field, Brandy has cultivated expertise through previous roles, including psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner at Delhi Community Center and family nurse practitioner at Delhi Community Health Center, where responsibilities included assessing, diagnosing, and managing care for diverse patient populations. Brandy's early career in education included teaching at various middle schools in New York. Brandy holds multiple degrees, including a Post Master’s Certificate in Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing from Southeastern Louisiana University and a Master of Science in Family Practice Nursing from Emory University, along with a strong educational background in biology and education.
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BasePoint Academy
BasePoint Academy serve teens 11-18 struggling with mental health and co-occurring substance abuse issues. A teen outpatient program specifically designed to address the unique challenges that teens face today in mental health and substance use. BasePoint Academy’s dynamic program was created with today’s adolescent experience in mind. Our providers appreciate and understand teens are now navigating through adolescence in the world of selfies, technology, and social media. We incorporate these realities into all of our teen counseling strategies, while coming alongside them in languages they understand and respond to. BasePoint Academy’s unique model integrates multiple modalities throughout its holistic curriculum. We believe in treating the whole child. Our program includes a structured curriculum where teen-students have access to both providers and peer-to-peer support opportunities. We work to establish trust first within our own community and extend that with inclusion to the teen’s support system through family meetings and multifamily support opportunities. Our goal at BasePoint Academy is for teens to feel respect and compassion as we steward them toward healthy decision making and boundary setting.