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Meet Christopher Barrios, PMHNP-BC.

Board-certified psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner with more than seven years of healthcare experience. Christopher treats adults with depression, anxiety, and ADHD, and provides affirming psychiatric care for LGBTQIA+ patients.

ANCC

Board certified PMHNP

7+ years

Healthcare experience

WA ARNP #AP70163513

Washington licensed

NPI 1215856968

Verifiable in the NPI registry

Christopher Barrios, PMHNP-BC — psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner at MindHealth Psychiatry
Christopher Barrios, PMHNP-BC
How he practices

Straightforward care, without the guesswork.

Christopher brings more than seven years of healthcare experience to a practice model built on extended evaluations and continuity of care across follow-up visits.

His clinical work centers on depression, anxiety, and adult ADHD: careful diagnostic history, measurement-based follow-up, and medication decisions made with you rather than for you. Where a symptom picture is muddy — ADHD that looks like anxiety, depression that has never been treated to remission — the first visit is spent sorting that out before anything is prescribed.

He also provides affirming psychiatric care for LGBTQIA+ adults, including patients who have had to explain or defend themselves in past medical settings. Identity is context for care here, not a diagnosis, and coordination with gender-affirming and primary-care providers is part of the plan when it matters.

Clinical focus

What Christopher treats.

Conditions treated
Depression
Medication management for adults, including cases that have not responded to a first or second trial.
Anxiety
Generalized anxiety, panic, and social anxiety — SSRI/SNRI management with non-sedating adjuncts where appropriate.
Adult ADHD
Evaluation and treatment, stimulant and non-stimulant options, with the same controlled-substance safeguards used practice-wide.
LGBTQIA+ mental health
Affirming psychiatric care for LGBTQIA+ adults, coordinated with existing care teams.
Credentials
PMHNP-BC
Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner — Board Certified, American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).
Experience
More than seven years of healthcare experience prior to joining MindHealth Psychiatry.
Washington licensure
ARNP License #AP70163513 — verifiable through the Washington State Department of Health provider lookup.
NPI
1215856968 — verifiable through the NPPES NPI Registry.
Who he sees
Adults, 18 and older
We do not treat children or adolescents.
Visit format
Telehealth and in-person, consistent with the rest of the practice.
Not yet scheduling
Waitlist open
Christopher’s panel opens shortly. Ask our office to add you to his list and we will call as soon as his schedule is live — or start with Lavena now and transfer later if you prefer.

Want to see Christopher when he opens?

Call or send an intake request and we will note your preference. Insurance benefits are verified before a first visit either way.