About Me
Veronica Johnson, FNP-C, PMHNP-BC, is a dual-certified family and psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner and founder of White Oak Medicine, a holistic medical and mental health practice in Saluda, North Carolina, serving patients in North Carolina, Arizona, and Colorado.With more than 30 years in healthcare, Veronica’s background spans primary care medicine, psychiatry, addiction treatment, trauma recovery, cardiology, and functional and holistic medicine. Her work focuses on the often-overlooked intersection between physical health, mental health, life experience, and the medications people take.She works especially well with people whose health has become complicated: multiple symptoms or diagnoses, medications, specialists, supplements, conflicting recommendations, or a lingering sense that no one has stepped back to look at the whole picture. Her approach combines careful medical and psychiatric evaluation with nutrition, lifestyle, nervous-system and trauma-informed work, herbal medicine, and functional testing when clinically useful.Veronica has a particular interest in safe tapering and deprescribing of psychiatric medications. Rather than assuming that every new or returning symptom represents psychiatric illness, she considers medication effects, withdrawal physiology, physical health, environment, stress, trauma, and other potential contributors.Her goal is not to replace one rigid model of healthcare with another. It is to help patients understand what may be happening in their bodies and minds, make informed decisions about their care, and become active participants in their own health rather than simply collecting more diagnoses and treatments.