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Find out about each provider at Better Stories.
We want to help you destress and improve your quality life with our years of experience and expertise as a board certified mental health providers at Better Stories.
Each of our Providers offer different specializations to ensure that we can help you with your needs. Your care involves us working together you provide your life experiences and perspective, we use our skills and experience in psychotherapy and psychopharmacology.
Adam Tripp, MD, PhD
We want to help you destress and improve your quality life with our years of experience and expertise as a board certified mental health providers at Better Stories.
Your care involves us working together you provide your life experiences and perspective, we use our skills and experience in psychotherapy and psychopharmacology. Together we will create a treatment plan that we agree will help you reduce your symptoms and yield a greater quality of life.
Better Stories currently accepts Aetna, Cigna, Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield, United, and UPMC commercial insurances.
Megan Eberhart, CRNP
I am excited to be part of the Better Stories team. I have been working in psychiatry for over 10 years and as a prescriber for over 5. I am a certified nurse practitioner with a background in several different setting and specialties including eating disorders, OCD, anxiety, insomnia, and postpartum depression, and I am looking forward to helping you with your needs.
Kim Kenseth, CRNP
I am a Nurse Practitioner certified in Psychiatry and Primary Care. I have a background in several different settings including integrative medicine. I like to take a holistic approach with medication management. I look forward to working together to help you move towards a better quality of life.
Allison Pavlov, DNP
Dr. Pavlov graduated from University of Pittsburgh with her BSN in 2008. She went on to work at Western Psychiatric hospital on both the general adult and dual diagnosis unit. She completed her DNP at Robert Morris University in 2015 and became a board certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. Prior to joining the staff at Better Stories, she worked providing psychiatric care for both Palliative Care and Oncology services at UPMC. She is eager to meet with you and develop a treatment plan that works best!
Diane Hranicky, PMHNP-BC, CRNP
Diane Hranicky is a board certified Adult Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP-BC, CRNP). She graduatedMagna cum laude from Drexel University in Philadelphia with aMaster of Science in Nursing (MSN) degree. She has worked in the Psychiatry field for the past 35+ years, the last 8 of which have been as a licensed provider of mental health treatment. Her interests and specialties include mood, trauma, grief disorders within the adult and geriatric populations. In scheduling appointments with her, together you will develop treatment goals and plans to facilitate optimal ways to improve one’s mental health and/or help manage one’s chronic mental health conditions through ongoing assessment, evaluation, and medication management.
Naduvathusery Jacob, MD
Dr. Naduvathusery Jacod received his medical degree from Calicut Medical College and has been in practice for more than 20 years.
Elisha Dubich, DNP
I am excited to become part of the Better Stories team. I am a certified nurse practitioner and am looking forward to helping you with your needs.
Lashonna Austin, CPC
Info coming soon.
Alayna Gradisek, DNP
Alayna Gradisek, DNP is a board certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. She graduated with her BSN from Duquesne University. She obtained her PMHNP and DNP from Robert Morris University. She went on to work at Allegheny General Hospital as a Clinical Nursing Supervisor on the Neuro step down unit for 7 years. She is excited to be part of the team at Better Stories.
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Megan Tankosh, DNP
Megan Tankosh, DNP is a board certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. She is excited to meet you and help you achieve a treatment plan that best fits your needs.
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Shabnam Jindal, DNP
Hello! I am Shabnam you can call me "Shab" and I am excited to be part of the Better Stories team. I graduated from University of Pittsburgh with my undergraduate and graduate degrees. Previously I worked in geriatric psychiatry and with adults with serious mental illness. I have a special interest in adult and older populations and minority populations. I support the use of medications when appropriate and believe the non-medication part is equally as important. I look forward to working together on a treatment plan that works for you!
Alexis Stoner, DNP
Alexis Stoner, DNP, is a board certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. She graduated with her BSN from the University of Pittsburgh and went on to pursue her DNP at Robert Morris University with a special focus in Psychiatry. She previously worked in a Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit for 7 years and she is excited to integrate her experience here at Better Stories!
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