Personalized Psychiatric Care, Centered Around You
Your mental health. Your recovery. Your journey.
Compassionate, person-centered psychiatric care that empowers individuals to take an active role in their mental health and recovery journey.
- Insurance accepted
- Aetna, Cigna, First Health and UnitedHealthcare
- Weekdays
- 2:30 pm to 8 pm AKT
- Saturday
- 9 am to 4 pm AKT
Care Designed Around You
We believe the best outcomes happen when you are an active participant in your care. Through open communication, shared decision-making, and individualized treatment, we work alongside you to develop a plan that reflects your needs, preferences, and goals.
Psychiatric Care Designed Around You
Mental health can affect nearly every part of life—from how you feel and think to how you sleep, work, connect with others, and navigate everyday challenges. Psychiatric care provides an opportunity to better understand what you're experiencing and find a path toward feeling more like yourself again.
Our approach goes beyond simply treating a diagnosis. We take the time to understand you—your symptoms, experiences, concerns, lifestyle, and what you hope to achieve through treatment.
We believe you should be an active participant in your care. That means understanding your options, having a voice in treatment decisions, asking questions, and working together to determine what feels right for you.
Through comprehensive psychiatric evaluation, evidence-based medication management, and ongoing support, we work collaboratively with you to develop a treatment plan tailored to your individual needs.
- Insurance accepted
- Aetna, Cigna, First Health and UnitedHealthcare
- Weekdays
- 2:30 pm to 8 pm AKT
- Saturday
- 9 am to 4 pm AKT
Conditions We Treat
Comprehensive care for a wide range of mental health needs.
Mental health is complex, and symptoms can affect each person differently. We provide thoughtful, individualized psychiatric care for adults experiencing a range of emotional, behavioral, and mental health concerns—with treatment shaped around your unique experiences, needs, and goals.
Anxiety Disorders
Persistent worry, fear, panic, or feeling constantly “on edge” can interfere with relationships, work, sleep, and everyday life. Treatment focuses on reducing symptoms, restoring a greater sense of calm, and helping you feel more confident navigating daily challenges.
Depressive Disorders
Depression can affect much more than mood, often influencing energy, motivation, sleep, concentration, relationships, and your ability to enjoy life. Personalized treatment focuses on relieving symptoms, improving daily functioning, and helping you reconnect with the parts of life that matter most.
ADHD & Attention Concerns
Difficulties with attention, organization, impulsivity, time management, or completing everyday responsibilities can affect both personal and professional life. Comprehensive evaluation helps clarify what may be contributing to these concerns and guides an individualized approach to treatment.
Bipolar & Related Disorders
Changes in mood, energy, sleep, activity, or behavior can significantly affect relationships, decision-making, and everyday functioning. Treatment focuses on promoting greater mood stability, reducing disruptive symptoms, and supporting long-term emotional well-being.
Trauma & PTSD
The effects of trauma can persist long after an experience has passed, sometimes appearing as anxiety, intrusive memories, avoidance, hypervigilance, sleep difficulties, or emotional disconnection. Treatment focuses on reducing symptoms, restoring a sense of stability, and supporting meaningful recovery.
Obsessive-Compulsive & Related Disorders
Intrusive thoughts, repetitive behaviors, or difficult-to-control urges can become distressing and interfere with everyday life. Treatment focuses on reducing the impact of these symptoms, improving daily functioning, and helping you regain a greater sense of freedom and control.
Personality Disorders
Long-standing patterns of thinking, feeling, and relating to others can sometimes create challenges with relationships, emotional regulation, self-image, or everyday functioning. Treatment focuses on understanding these patterns, managing symptoms, strengthening stability, and supporting healthier ways of navigating life and relationships.
Schizophrenia Spectrum & Other Psychotic Disorders
Changes in thinking, perception, behavior, or the experience of reality can significantly affect independence, relationships, and daily functioning. Individualized psychiatric care focuses on reducing symptoms, promoting stability, and supporting the highest possible level of functioning and quality of life.
Sleep-Wake Concerns
Difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep, or maintaining a healthy sleep pattern can affect mood, concentration, energy, and overall well-being. Psychiatric evaluation can help identify contributing factors and guide treatment aimed at improving both sleep and daytime functioning.
Substance Use & Recovery
Concerns related to alcohol or substance use can affect physical health, emotional well-being, relationships, and everyday life. We provide respectful, evidence-based care focused on reducing harm, supporting recovery, preventing relapse, and helping you create meaningful and sustainable change.
Stress & Adjustment-Related Concerns
Major life changes, loss, relationship difficulties, work-related stress, or unexpected challenges can sometimes become difficult to manage alone. Supportive psychiatric care can help reduce distress, strengthen coping, and help you regain a greater sense of balance and direction.
Co-Occurring Mental Health & Substance Use Disorders
Mental health and substance use concerns often overlap, making it important to understand and address both as part of a comprehensive treatment plan. Integrated care considers how these concerns interact and develops a personalized approach designed to support greater stability and lasting recovery.
Care That Looks Beyond the Diagnosis
A diagnosis can help guide treatment, but it does not define you.
Substance Use & Recovery
Recovery is personal. Your care should be too.
Substance use can begin for many reasons—and over time, what once felt manageable can begin to affect your health, relationships, responsibilities, and sense of control.
Seeking support doesn't require you to have everything figured out. Whether you're questioning your relationship with alcohol or substances, concerned about increasing use, working toward sobriety, or looking for support to maintain your recovery, care can begin wherever you are today.
We provide confidential, compassionate, and evidence-based treatment for substance use disorders in a setting centered on dignity, respect, and understanding.
A Personalized Approach to Recovery
There is no single path to recovery.
We take the time to understand your experiences with substance use, mental health, medical history, previous treatment, current challenges, and what you want your life to look like moving forward.
Together, we develop an individualized treatment plan that may include psychiatric care, medication management, medications for substance use disorders when appropriate, relapse-prevention strategies, and treatment of co-occurring mental health conditions.
Treating the Whole Person
Substance use and mental health are often closely connected. Anxiety, depression, trauma, ADHD, sleep difficulties, and other psychiatric concerns may contribute to substance use—or become more difficult to manage because of it.
Addressing both allows treatment to move beyond simply stopping substance use and toward improving your overall mental health, stability, relationships, and quality of life.
Recovery Is More Than Abstinence
Recovery isn't simply about what you stop doing. It's also about what you begin building.
Greater stability. Healthier relationships. Improved well-being. Renewed confidence. A stronger sense of purpose. And a life that feels increasingly aligned with who you want to be.
Whether your goal is recovery, relapse prevention, reducing harm, or simply understanding whether substance use has become a concern, you deserve a place where you can have an open and honest conversation without judgment.
Your Journey. Your Goals. Your Recovery.
You don't have to wait until you've reached a crisis to ask for help.
Wherever you are in your journey, we will meet you there—and work with you to determine the next step forward.
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Aleksandra Swan, PMHNP-BC
Known to patients as Ola. Board certified psychiatric mental health and adult gerontology nurse practitioner.
Ola PMHNP-C, NP-C, provides compassionate, evidence-based care for individuals facing mental health and substance use challenges. A board-certified Psychiatric Mental Health and Adult-Gerontology Nurse Practitioner trained at Maryville University, she offers a holistic, person-centered approach to conditions such as depression, anxiety, PTSD, ADHD, and mood disorders. Ola’s goal is to empower patients to take an active role in their care, giving them the tools, support, and confidence to work toward lasting mental wellness.
- PMHNP-BC and board certified NP
- Licensed in Alaska, full practice authority
- Substance use and co occurring care
Offering only telehealth appointments statewide
Insurance and Payment
Plans accepted
- Aetna
- Cigna
- First Health
- UnitedHealthcare
Private Pay & Out-of-Network Benefits
For patients who prefer to receive care without using insurance, or whose insurance plan is not currently accepted, private-pay options are available.
If your insurance plan includes out-of-network benefits, we are happy to provide a superbill upon request for you to submit directly to your insurance company for possible reimbursement.
Reimbursement is determined by your individual insurance plan and is not guaranteed. We encourage you to contact your insurance provider directly to learn more about your out-of-network benefits and reimbursement options.
What patients say once they have been seen
4.9 out of 5 · 45 verified reviews
“It was like talking to a friend, but a more educated one. I was never talked down to and felt validated.”
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“The first visit where I felt like I found someone knowledgeable that was willing to listen and really help, not just rush through an appointment.”
Verified patient review
“She was attentive, understood my needs and my mental health. Awesome bedside manner and very knowledgeable.”
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Your Journey Starts Here
You do not need a referral, a diagnosis or the right words for it. Schedule a time and bring what you have.
- Weekdays
- 2:30 pm to 8 pm AKT
- Saturday
- 9 am to 4 pm AKT
- Where
- Anywhere in Alaska, by video
- New patients
- Welcome, no referral needed
PARCA does not provide crisis intervention and emergency psychiatric services.
If you are experiencing a psychiatric emergency, please call 911, 988, or the Alaska Careline.
- Call or text 988 · Suicide and Crisis Lifeline
- 1 877 266 4357 (HELP) · Alaska Careline, anytime, day or night
- Call 911 · Immediate medical emergency