Sameka Dowell Mills Verified Provider

Sameka Dowell Mills, PMHNP-BC is a psychiatric nurse practitioner in Lansing, Illinois. Sameka provides mental health care for children, teens, adults and seniors. She offers medication management and integrative, therapy-informed support using approaches such as person-centered therapy, interpersonal therapy Motivational Interviewing, and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy. Her style is holistic and affirming, blending mind, body and spirit with practical tools that help clients feel understood while building real-life coping strategies.

Medication Management

A core focus of Sameka’s practice is supporting clients with ADHD, anxiety, depression, stress, sleep concern, and related daily challenges. With dual certification in family and psychiatric mental health nursing and over eight years of experience, she brings a broad clinical lens to care across the lifespan.

Sessions are designed to clarify symptoms and goals, then build an individualized plan that may include psychiatric medication management alongside skills-based, strengths-focused interventions. Her use of SFBT, MI and positive psychology emphasizes progress you can track while also addressing underlying patterns that impact mood, focus, and functioning.

Affirming, Multicultural Support for Identity and Life Transitions

Sameka also highlights experience working with diverse and LGBTQ+ communities, including transgender, nonbinary, queer and intersex clients, as well as racial justice advocates and single mothers. She supports concerns such as racial identity, spirituality, self-esteem, relationship issues, women’s issues and major life transitions with a multicultural, person-centered approach.